Scope and Contents Includes: manuscript notes by Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] and WSC on land purchase in Ireland; copies of the 1903 Irish Land Act and the 1907 Evicted Tenants (Ireland) Act; notes for the framing of the 1908 Irish Land Bill including measures to relieve congested districts, financial arrangements for land purchase in Ireland, amendments to previous legislation and amendments proposed by the House of Lords; notes by James Bryce on the increase of offences involving fire-arms in...

Scope and Contents Includes a programme for the 1909 Parliamentary session and Cabinet papers on various subjects including: Supertax; the taxation of land values; stamp duties; increased death duties; assessment of property owners and the Finances Bill; report of the Poor Law Commission with recommended social reforms such as the classification of the poor and the establishment of labour exchanges; the Dairies (Scotland) bill and agricultural rates; Metropolitan Police finance; the Lake Magadi scheme for...

Scope and Contents Includes: a memorandum by Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame,later Lord Swinton] President of the Board of Trade, Ronald McNeill [later 1st Lord Cushendun, Financial Secretary to the Treasury] and First Lord of the Admiralty [William Bridgeman] on financing lighthouses in the Red Sea; Cunliffe-Lister on imports and exports of leather bags, trade outlook including details of various industries, exports and colonial trade, and the state of industry and company law;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Colonel Edmund Gorges, Commander 1st Battalion, King's African Rifles; Lieutenant-Colonel James Sadler, Governor, British East Africa Protectorate (6); Colonel James Montgomery, Commissioner of Lands, British East Africa [later Kenya and Uganda] (5); Edgar Harper. Subjects include: revision of the land laws; the EAP police; granting land to Indians. Also includes: recommendations and minutes of the Concessions and Railways Committee and the Land Board of EAP; printed...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association] (8); F Stanley Jackson [Chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Party]; Sir Raymond Greene; James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (2); Sir George Lloyd; Richard Colvin; Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour]; Lord Carson [earlier Sir Edward Carson]; Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere]; Lord Rochdale [earlier George Kemp]; Sir Ian Hamilton; Ralph Bury;...

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Letter from Henry Rider Haggard (Royal Commission on Coast Erosion, 35 Great George Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC accompanying a copy of Rural England [not present] and advocating a scheme of national afforestation to encourage small-holders and thereby combat rural depopulation.

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Letter from Elizabeth, Lady Kenmare (66 Cadogan Square, [London]) to WSC enclosing and commenting on Sir Alexander Henderson's plan for the financing of the Irish Land Purchase Act and related newspaper cuttings [see CHAR 2/36/9-11].

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Memorandum by Sir Alexander Henderson on the financing of the Irish Land Purchase Act. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/36/7.

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Cutting: correspondence between 5th Lord Kenmare [earlier Lord Castlerosse], chairman of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Land Purchase Association, and George Wyndham on the rate of progress under the Irish Land Purchase Act of 1903. Sent with CHAR 2/36/7.

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Cutting on Sir Alexander Henderson's scheme for financing of the Irish Land Purchase Act. Sent with CHAR 2/36/7 2 papers.

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Notes by [Abe Bailey] (Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London) on the financing and management of a scheme of land settlement.

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Letter from Henry Massingham (34 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, [London]) to WSC an mentioning article on Liberal land policy in the Contemporary Review and recommending that WSC meet Mr Outhwaite, former editor of the labour newspaper in Johannesburg, who can give him important information about South Africa.

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Cutting from the Times: criticism of the campaign of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and WSC for land reform.

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Cutting from the Times: letter from Henry Rider Haggard on land reform.

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Cutting from the Times: letters from WSC and others on land reform.

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Letter from George Keeble (Peterborough) to WSC predicting that WSC will become Prime Minister and urging him to take up the question of land reform.

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Letter from A B ?Martin (Chatterville, Woodbourne Road, Edgbaston, [Birmingham]) to WSC asserting that Joseph Chamberlain's influence should be checked by a campaign for land reform, which would greatly benefit the poor. Annotated in shorthand.

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Letter from Lindsay Talbot-Crosbie (Kildare Street Club, Dublin, [Ireland]) to WSC noting that WSC has advocated the same policies as the Irish Reform Association.

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Cutting: letter to the Daily Chronicle by Lindsay Talbot- Crosbie criticising the Government's attitude to the implementation of the 1903 Land Act and endorsing WSC's proposals for the reform of Irish administration.

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Letter from Edwin Montagu (House of Commons) to WSC endorsing WSC's attack on the inactivity of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries and pointing out that in south- west Norfolk and West Cambridgeshire the Small Holdings Acts were successful and therefore nurtured Liberalism. Argues against the resignation of the Government. An annotated typescript copy of this letter is at CHAR 2/45/65.

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Letter from Lucien Wolf (15 Brunswick Square, London) to WSC urging that the Board of Agriculture be revitalised and advocating a scheme of land reform and other measures as the most effective way of countering Tariff Reform. Signed typescript. Annotated that WSC protests against Wolf's attributing to him an idea for a system of bounties.

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Notes to clauses of the Land Transfer Bill. Annotated: "3 April". 6,[1p. Leaves printed on one side only.].

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Table showing the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Land Transfer Acts and their treatment in the draft land transfer and registration of assurances bills.

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Draft of a bill intituled an act to amend the land transfer acts, 1875 and 1897. Annotated: "3 April". 12,[1p. Leaves printed on one side only.].

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Letter from Sir John Dewar [later Lord Forteviot] (The Royal Hotel, Portree, Isle of Skye [Inverness-shire, Scotland] to WSC (Dundee, [Angus, Scotland]) enclosing a memorandum on the land question in the highlands of Scotland [see CHAR 2/50/2-3]. He thinks the Small Landholders (Scotland) Bill meets the wishes of the crofters and small-holders whilst Lord Lovat's bill does not.