Pamphlet: "The destruction of the British Empire as planned by the Communist International". Published by the Russian National Students' Association.

Letter from Leo Weinthal (801 Salisbury House, London Wall, London) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) enclosing a copy of General Jan Smuts's introduction to the proposed history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa] [see CHAR 2/123/50-54] and asking WSC for a contribution to the work and the loan of one or two of his Egyptian paintings for reproduction in it.

Introduction by General Jan Smuts to the history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa]. Sent with CHAR 2/123/48-49.

Letter from the Duke of Devonshire (2 Carlton Gardens, [London]) to WSC asking him to become a vice-president of the British Empire League and enclosing a statement of its objects and constitution [see CHAR 2/123/156].

Printed statement of the objects and constitution of the British Empire League. Sent with CHAR 2/123/154.

Letter from 3rd Lord Stradbroke (State Government House, Melbourne, [Australia]) to WSC thanking him for his help as Secretary of State for the Colonies, commiserating with him on his illness, wondering whether the letter he wrote to WSC about the Roman Catholic movement was deliberately not sent on to him, and stressing that it should be made clear that only products of the Empire will be used in the Empire Exhibition of 1924 to restore confidence in Australia.

Introduction by General Jan Smuts to the history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa]. Sent with CHAR 2/124B/121.

Introductory note to the history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa]. Draft written in WSC's name by C W Hobley and sent with CHAR 2/124B/129 for WSC's approval.

Notes from [Edward Marsh] to [WSC] asking whether WSC is prepared to write anything for Leo Weinthal's history of the Cape to Cairo railway and river route [Africa] and whether he agrees to let Weinthal publish a passage from "My African Journey" and reproduce his pictures of Egypt. Annotated by WSC that he will not write anything and that he agrees to the publication of the passage but not to the reproduction of the pictures.

Letter from D C Robertson to [WSC] proposing that unemployment should be relieved by the provision of Government money to set up a school for the training of tradesmen and to facilitate emigration of "our surplus population" to the colonies. Refers to Japan's need to expand and expresses opposition to Protection. Copy sent with CHAR 2/132/32.

Letter from Gideon Murray, the Master of Elibank (8 Great George Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC asking if he is correct in inferring from WSC's article in the "Weekly Despatch" that WSC would be prepared to be associated with David Lloyd George in the new alignment of parties, a position which Murray and others could not accept. Congratulates WSC on turning the tables on J H Thomas in his speech on imperial policy.

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Walter Grant Morden expressing the hope that his late arrival [at a dinner at the Thames Yacht Club] did not upset Morden's friends, approving his Empire settlement scheme but declining to take a financial interest in it because his political work might be hampered if he were associated with a private corporation. Carbon copy.

Letter from Walter Grant Morden ("The People", 49 Wellington Street, Strand, London) to WSC on: Dr Black, former Deputy Minister of Emigration in Canada, and Mervyn Brown, founder of the Canada Colonisation Association, who will be dining with WSC and Morden to discuss the scheme to form a private corporation to aid the transfer of "our surplus unproductive population from here to other parts of the Empire; the Government's attitude to the scheme.

Letter from Walter Grant Morden ("The People", 49 1 Wellington Street, Strand, London) to WSC on: the wish of Terence Macnaghten, vice-chairman of the Oversea Settlement Committee, to arrange a conference with Morden at the Colonial Office; the wish of Christopher Lowther to act as secretary to the proposed land settlement corporation and of Sir Robert Lynn to join its board as a representative of Ulster [Ireland]. Proposes a meeting with 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith].

Proof of a statement by WSC on his interest in the tour of the New Zealand rugby team and his belief that sport served a good purpose in bringing together men from every part of the Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/136/121.

Letter from A Grosvenor Deeny (Madresfield, 95 Wentworth Road, Harborne, Birmingham) to WSC urging him to form a new constitutionalist and anti-Socialist party and to remember the stress by Australian Prime Minister Stanley Bruce [later Lord Bruce] on the importance of trade within the Empire and the construction of a naval base in Singapore.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton, Pretoria, South Africa, to WSC, on South Africa. Stating "if we could incorporate these Boers into the Empire, we should be doing a vast deal more for the future of our race and language, than by assimilating a million Johannesburg Jews. They have first class natural ability, and their brains, having lain fallow for about 200 years, will, like virgin soil produce magnificent crops".

Letter from Sir Vincent Caillard (National Bank of Egypt, London Agency, 4 & 5 King William Street, London) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and predicting that WSC will become a keen imperialist and might even come to favour preferential trade with the colonies. Carbon typescript.

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (3 Whitehall Court, [London]) to WSC reporting that he and others are keen that Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] should get a government post that will give him scope, but it has been decided that the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office should sit in the House of Lords. Thinks colonial affairs "will be Joseph Chamberlain's point of attack.".

Letter from Joseph Chamberlain (40 Princes Gardens [London]) to WSC, thanking him for his letter and saying that he thought there was going to be a question in Parliament that day, on WSC's forthcoming motion [against Imperial Preference]. Chamberlain also refers to a request in WSC's letter [to use his influence to secure a decision by Parliament on Imperial Preference] explaining that he did not see any reason to interfere in the matter.

Letter from Austin Taylor (House of Commons) to WSC suggesting a change to the wording of WSC's forthcoming motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference. Annotated in shorthand.

Letter from Walter Runciman [later Lord Runciman] (House of Commons) to WSC congratulating him on his speech on his motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference.