Memorandum by the agricultural committee of the Conservative Research Department on the use of a system of quotas to grant Imperial Preference to wheat without recourse to an import duty.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Ernle [earlier Rowland Prothero] [President of the Board of Agriculture] asking whether there can be any national advantage to the regulations whereby he [WSC] has to buy hay from a dealer at a price much higher than that he would have to pay if he purchased from local farmers. Typescript copy.

Letter from Lord Ernle [earlier Rowland Prothero] (Board of Agriculture and Fisheries) to WSC referring his query about the regulation of the hay market to the Chief Administrative Member of the Forage Committee.

Letter from Sir Ian Hamilton (1 Hyde Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC noting that the first of the articles on the Dardanelles by Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] is not hostile to WSC, referring to the valuation of the stock on the farm [at Lullenden] and arguing that Sir George Arthur's portrayal of WSC as an overwhelmingly persuasive and powerful figure during the Dardanelles campaign will do WSC good rather than harm.

Memorandum on Increases in Agricultural Production in Great Britain, 1931-35.

Press notice of speech by Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Agriculture and Fisheries, at a National Government meeting at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

Circular letter from W Hill Forster, Secretary, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, inviting WSC to become a member, enclosing copy of "Journal".

Letter from W Hill Forster, Central and Associated Chambers of Agriculture, to WSC, asking him to speak at meeting on "Food Production in relation both to Defence and National Health".

Letter from [?] S C Thomas (Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch [London]) to WSC, regretting that they won't have time to meet, and describing his interview with the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Malcolm MacDonald] about the sugar industry in Barbados, and the plan to introduce worldwide sugar quotas.

Extract from a speech at Pretoria [South Africa] by Sir Robert Greig on the importance of agriculture.

Reprint from the "Farmer and stockbreeder and agricultural gazette": article by G Holt-Thomas "explaining to the electors in urban districts that a tax on food imports would not result in dearer living.".

Letter from [WSC] to the editor of the Times on Henry Rider Haggard's assertion that rural depopulaton and urban congestion can only be remedied by a multiplication of small holdings and a system of Protection. Draft in the hand of ?.

Letter from Reginald Franklin, PS to Walter Elliot, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, on the Pigs and Bacon Marketing schemes and their effect on the price of bacon, enclosing cutting from "The Times".

Letter from Reginald Franklin, Ministry of Agriculture, and Fisheries, to Violet Pearman, PS to WSC, giving figures for the consumption of bacon in the UK in 1935.

Pamphlet - Agriculture - The Home Market and National Security - Views of The National Farmers' Union on current agricultural problems, (Second Edition) Published by the National Farmers' Union (N.F.U. No. 51).

Transcribed by Henry Thomas Riley from Liber Horn in the Guildhall Library, London. Prefixed are letters from John Willis Clark to Francis Jenkinson, 19 July, no year; and from H.T. Riley to Henry Richards Luard, 20 November 1860. The versos are blank, with the exception of the final folio.