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

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.

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.

Syllabus of a conference course on unemployment and local government at Bonar Law College, Ashridge, Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire.

Table showing the changes in rateable values and rates between 1928/9 and 1929/30 in various county boroughs and county districts.

Minute by Sir Alfred Hurst to James Grigg on the proposed scheme of rating reform, particularly as it would effect London and parishes in the Epping Division of Essex.

Note from [WSC] to [James Grigg] asking for clarification of figures on the rating of places in his constituency [Epping, Essex] produced by Sir Alfred Hurst.

Note from James Grigg to [WSC] commenting on the value of CHAR 2/167/13-15 and CHAR 2/167/16-18 for election purposes in Epping [Essex].

Memorandum by [Sir Alfred Hurst] on Poor Law administration in the West Ham Union [Essex].

Memorandum by [Sir Alfred Hurst] on the Epping Division [of Essex] and the Local Government Reform Scheme.

Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (2 Connaught Place [London]) to [Louis] Jennings in which he discusses [the publication] of his speeches and informs him that he was referring to W H Smith as First Lord of the Treasury, informs him of his travel plans and discusses the implications of the London County Council elections for the Conservative Party.

Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill (Blenheim Palace) to Jennie [Jerome, later Lady Randolph Churchill] including: a meeting held in Woodstock [Oxfordshire] concerning the town's sanitary arrangements; the change in his mother's [Frances, Duchess of Marlborough's] attitude towards their engagement; the advice of the parliamentary agent concerning the next general election and compliments on her letters.

Papers, mainly from the Welsh Office, on subjects including: the National Health Service; educational provision; the state of the economy; the launch of the Moulded Foam Products co-operative; a review of children’s homes.

Papers and correspondence, mainly with Paul Murphy, Labour education spokesman for Wales, on the reorganisation of secondary schools in Gwent and the closure of a school in Murphy’s Pontypool constituency. Also includes correspondence on a protest rally against trials of a radar base at St David’s, Pembrokeshire.