Letter from WSC to H A Gwynne asserting that there is a large surplus capacity of coal to be absorbed before the existing unemployed miners could be re-engaged. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Sir John Lister Kaye (Guards Club, Brook Street, London) to WSC approving his letter to the "Weekly Despatch" on the need for Liberals and Conservatives to unite against Socialism and stressing the need to prevent the nationalisation of the coal industry and the introduction of a large publicly funded housebuilding programme.

Letter from Ernest Beckett, later Lord Grimthorpe to WSC, on Lancashire collieries.

Memorandum by the Mining Association of Great Britain, opposing the Trades Disputes Bill [printed, 2 copies].

Letter from CSC to WSC, commenting on the coal dispute.

Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, also on WSC's meeting with Lord Beaverbrook and Beaverbrook's relationship with Jean Norton Part pub. CV V, Part 1, pp.823-824.

Letter from CSC to WSC, on the coal dispute, passing on the views of Lord Ancaster, who felt that "mediation was a mistake".

Report on the large ground rents and royalties received by landowners as a result of the development of the coalfield in the Rhondda Valley [Glamorgan, Wales]. Annotated typescript.

Notes by Crompton Llewelyn Davies on duties on minerals and on a call at the annual conference of the Scottish miners for the taxation of coal royalties received by landowners.

Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] on the burden of royalties on the mining industry.

Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] showing that wages of the entire stoke-hole crew of the "Lusitania" for two Atlantic crossings amount to less than the royalties received by the landowner for the coal consumed on the voyages.

Notes [by Crompton Llewelyn Davies] on evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties of 1893 showing that royalties led to the depression of wages and the closing of collieries.

Memorandum on the royalties paid on coal and iron ore in Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire. Typescript.

Notes on the reduction of tea duty and sugar duty and the miners' eight hour day as much surer means of improving the condition of workers than a protective duty.

Letter from C B ?Cranston [chairman of the Yorkshire Coalowners Association] to Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] complaining about having to rely on Conservative MPs to put the Association's case on the Coal Mines Bill and about the representatives of the miners dictating to the owners. Sent with CHAR 2/52/3.

Notes on the work to promote safety in the coal industry done by W E Garforth of Snydale Hall, near Pontefract [Yorkshire], chairman of Pope and Pearson Ltd. On the notepaper of 28 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, [London).

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] urging that the Government should not introduce a bill which, whilst coercing the coal mine owners, does not satisfy the miners or give the Government the necessary powers to end the strike. Two drafts in the hand of Edward Marsh, both annotated: "not sent".

Letter from Neston Diggle [naval attache] (British Embassy, Rome, [Italy]) to WSC asking him to support his claims to be promoted to captain, expressing relief at the end of the coal strike in Britain, in which the Italians and Balkan peoples have taken a great interest, and reporting that extremists have been defeated in municipal elections in Rome and Belgrade [Yugoslavia, later Serbia].

Notes by Lord Weir [earlier Sir William Weir] on the need for the Government to formulate a constructive industrial policy in order to reduce the influence of extremists over more moderate workers and trade unionists. Written at the request of Andrew Bonar Law and WSC. Appendices include two printed letters to the Times on the threatened coal strike and the attempts of trade unions to bring about the complete break-down of the current industrial system.

"Perils of coal nationalisation". Pamphlet issued by the Employers' Press Department.

Letter from [WSC] to the Maharaja of Alwar [India] on: the imminent acceptance by the people in Mesopotamia [later Iraq] of Emir Feisal; the efforts to secure a better recognition of the status of Indians in the British colonies and the particular difficulties this poses in South Africa; the defeat of the miners in the coal strike and the improving economic prospects for Britain; the good qualities of the Viceroy of India [Lord Reading, earlier Sir Rufus Isaacs]. Typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Sydney Chapman (Board of Trade) asking if it is true that France is obtaining large quantities of coal from Germany for nothing and then exporting it to neutral countries at prices fatal to Britain's coal export trade. Typescript copy.

Letter from Sir Sydney Chapman (Board of Trade) to WSC explaining that the fall in the prices of exported British coal is due to the coal strike and the consequent large increase in the imports of coal from the United States into France and elsewhere rather than the movement of coal from Germany under the reparation agreements.