Cutting from the Dundee Advertiser: speech by John Cathcart Wason advocating local parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales, London and, possibly, English regions.

Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to T C Horsfall thanking him for his papers on town planning and asking for details on how a system of professional mayors on the German model could be implemented in Britain. Suggests that all local government officials should form one corporate body like the central civil service. Copy in the hand of Annette Anning. Draft at CHAR 2/33/23-24.

Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to T C Horsfall thanking him for his papers on town planning and asking for details on how a system of professional mayors on the German model could be implemented in Britain. Suggests that all local government officials should form one corporate body like the central civil service. Incomplete draft in the hand of Annette Anning. A fuller copy at CHAR 2/33/20-22.

Letter from M Myers (15 Reginald Terrace, Leeds, [Yorkshire]) to WSC thanking him for his support for reform of the naturalisation laws and describing the anti- semitic campaign against the election of Dr Julius Friend as the Medical Officer to the Leeds Board of Guardians.

Letter from WSC to M Myers expressing satisfaction with Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's recent speech on reform of the naturalisation laws and offering to take up the case of Dr Julius Friend [the subject of an anti-semitic campaign against his election as the Medical Officer to the Leeds Board of Guardians] if a Leeds MP does not do so. Copy in the hand of Annette Anning.

Letter from T C Horsfall (Swanscoe Park, near Macclesfield, [Cheshire]) to WSC on the powers of beugermeisters in Germany and the possibility of introducing a system of paid mayors into Britain. Advocates the formation of the municipal and local civil service into one large body. Encloses his paper on The Government of Manchester [see CHAR 2/38/4]. Signed and annotated typescript.

The Government of Manchester. By T C Horsfall. A paper read to the Manchester Statistical Society, November 13th, 1895, with additions. Advocates a system of permanent professional mayors. Sent with CHAR 2/38/2-3 46p.

Letter from Alexander ? (4 Devonshire Place, [London]) to WSC asking whether he can assist H V Sawyer, a former captain in the Indian Army who lost his arm after a panther bite and is seeking a post as Assistant Inspector under the Poor Law.

Letter from W Raley (Raley and Sons Solicitors, Barnsley [Yorkshire]) to Lord Crewe [earlier Lord Houghton, also Robert Milnes] marked "private and confidential" [earlier Lord Hougton] asking him to request assistance from WSC in the case of John Harvey who had been dismissed from the Barnsley Town Council for spending money on the Election. Manuscript signed with initials. Covering letter at CHAR 12/9/28.

Letter from Sydney Holland [later 2nd Lord Knutsford] (Kneesworth Hall, Royston, Hertfordshire) to WSC including a newspaper cutting from the Times of a letter from George Beer (Kandersteg, Heather Road, Grove Park, Kent) which suggests that the London County Council should alter the coroners' districts in the light of the inquest [into Sidney Street]. Holland agrees with this proposal, and suggests that the police should be armed with pistols or short guns. Signed manuscript.

Letter from Alfred Emmott (House of Commons) to WSC concerning one of his constituents, James Middleton, a Justice of the Peace, who has signed vaccination certificates for children who are more than four months old. Emmott recommends that WSC should not punish him severely in view of Middleton's good work for the [Oldham] Town Council and School Board. Signed manuscript. See CHAR 12/2/68 and CHAR 12/2/70.

Cutting from the "Daily Chronicle" supporting WSC's defence of the Insurance Act but rejecting his proposal for regional parliaments in England as unhelpful with regard to the problem of Irish Home Rule.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian on the reaction in Lancashire and Yorkshire to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Cutting from the Daily News and Leader on the reaction in London, the Midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Cutting from the People: cartoon and article ridiculing WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England; report of WSC's re-organisation of the Admiralty and his changes to Navy discipline.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: letter to the editor approving WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: editorial criticising WSC's speech on "English Federalism" as it relates to Irish Home Rule but approving of it as it relates to English local government.

Cutting from the Manchester Guardian on the support of Sir Henry Manton, a leading Birmingham Liberal, for WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Cutting from the Liverpool Daily Courier: cartoon attacking WSC's proposal for separate parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the English regions.

Cutting from the Municipal Journal: reactions by men involved in local government to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.

Cutting from the Irish Times on the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] to be addressed by WSC and John Redmond and the advocacy by Lord Randolph Churchill in 1889 of measures of local government and land purchase for Ireland.

Cutting from the Aberdeen Free Press on the Belfast meeting as the start of a campaign to promote a Home Rule bill; the advocacy by Lord Randolph Churchill in 1889 of local government and land purchase for Ireland; the decline in opposition to Home Rule within the Conservative party.

Cutting from the "Dundee Advertiser" approving WSC's argument (in his introduction to "Home Rule in a Nutshell" by Jeremiah MacVeagh) that Home Rule for Ireland should be part of a wider scheme of decentralisation to promote administrative efficiency.

Cutting from the "Yorkshire Herald" ridiculing WSC's advocacy of decentralisation in his introduction to "Home Rule in a nutshell" by Jeremiah MacVeagh.