Leaflets issued by the Liberal Publication Department, covering the budget of 1907, land reform and small holdings, registration of voters and Conservative proposals for Tariff Reform and the abolition of income tax. 6 items.

Letter from Frederick Guest (1063 5th Avenue, New York, [USA]) to WSC noting that the Unionist Protectionists and the Free Traders have arrived at a modus vivendi and offering to help in WSC's forthcoming electoral battle.

Cutting: letter from E P Stevenson to the editor of the Westminster Gazette asserting WSC's claims to the support of Free Trade Unionists in the North-West Manchester election and criticising his opponents' campaigning on the Licensing Bill and other issues; also includes covering note for letter [not present] from [?] Bertram Straus [MP for Mile End, London] offering to give up his seat to WSC.

Letter from [WSC] to Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Leslie Wilson apologising for not replying to his letter of April 1924 [see CHAR 2/147/44], recalling the break-up of the Coalition and "the melancholy election of 1923", noting that the Conservative party has regained its dominant position, remembering his friendship with Wilson's brother [Sir Edward Wilson] and expressing pride at having placed Sir Leslie Wilson at the head of a battalion of the Naval Division. Carbon typescript copy.

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Conservative Party views on the shipbuilding programme [Carbon copy].

Letter from [WSC] to Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] (93 Eaton Square, [London]) referring to Sir Martin Conway's talk with Baldwin and others and stressing the need for Liberal MPs to be assured that if they act consistently in opposition to the Labour government they will not be attacked by the Conservatives. Encloses a copy of CHAR 2/132/49-57. Carbon copy.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Balfour [earlier Arthur Balfour] on: the steps being take towards greater electoral co-operation between the Liberals and Conservatives; the imminent invitation to WSC to address as a Liberal the Liverpool Conservative Working Men's Association; the more sympathetic attitude being taken by David Lloyd George to the efforts to recreate the National Liberal wing; the help given to WSC in the Westminster election by Balfour's letter. Carbon copy.

Letter from "Sunny" [9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC approving the success of a luncheon and expressing the belief that WSC will remain detached from the Conservative party until he can command his terms.

Letter from Sir Archibald Salvidge, chairman of the Liverpool Constitutional Association (2 Sir Thomas Street, Liverpool) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) conveying the invitation of the Liverpool Workingmen's Conservative Association and the Women's Unionist Federation to address a mass meeting in Liverpool on the "present dangers of the Socialist Movement." Sent with CHAR 2/132/80.

Letter from Adeline Bourne (52 Lower Sloane Street, [London]) to [WSC] arguing that the Liberals and Conservatives will never be able to co-operate with eachother and suggesting the formation of a unifying "People's Party".

Letter from [WSC] to Captain Edward Altham (United Service Club, Pall Mall, [London]) agreeing with his view of the result of the election for the Abbey Division of Westminster [see CHAR 2/132/114-115] and adding that if the Conservatives cannot command a majority good government can only be ensured by Liberal co-operation, and that the Conservatives would be damaged if constituencies like Westminster are treated as pocket boroughs. Carbon copy.

Letter from Captain Edward Altham (United Service Club, Pall Mall, [London]) to WSC explaining that at a forthcoming debate staged by the newly-formed Conservative Training Association he is going to argue that the return of WSC for the Abbey Division of Westminster would have heralded an new era of concerted action against Socialism and arguing that young Conservatives are receptive to the idea of co-operating with Liberals.

Letter from Sir Joseph Dobbie (42 Melville Street, Edinburgh, [Scotland]) to WSC (Crockham Hill, Sevenoaks, [Kent]) arguing that a new Liberal Unionist organisation pledged to oppose Socialism in cooperation with the Conservatives would receive much support in Scotland and inviting WSC to address a meeting of the National Citizen's Union in Edinburgh.

Letter from Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] (18 Cadogan Gardens, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his two speeches to Conservative audiences in Liverpool, which he thinks have greatly strengthened WSC's position with the Conservative party. Refers to WSC's Conservative friends' anticipation of the debate on the McKenna duties and to WSC's satisfactory talk with Austen Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin].

Letter from [WSC] to 17th Lord Derby (Coworth Park, Sunningdale, Ascot, [Berkshire]) referring to Derby' serious illness, expressing satisfaction about the two Conservative meetings he addressed in Liverpool, at one of which Sir Archibald Salvidge made an important statement against general tariffs, and hoping that Derby will use his influence to ensure that seats are not thrown away to the Socialists as a result of votes being split between Conservatives and Liberals. Carbon 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 Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] (House of Commons) to WSC promising to consider his letter [on the need for electoral cooperation between Liberals and Conservatives].

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] (18 Cadogan Gardens, [London]) asserting that he can develop a successful independent candidature in the Abbey Division of Westminster, promising to draw up an outline of the arrangement for the cooperation of Conservatives and Liberals in certain constituencies and suggesting that candidates standing under this arrangement should be called Liberal Conservatives, citing precedents in Canada and Spain. Carbon copy.

Letter from Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] (18 Cadogan Gardens, [London]) to WSC on: his belief, resulting from a meeting with Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] and F Stanley Jackson, that there will be trouble if WSC stands in Westminster and that they have another constituency in mind for him; the Conservative view of Frederick Guest's proposals for electoral cooperation between Liberals and Conservatives in some constituencies.

Letter from Claude Lowther (43 Catherine Street, [London]) to WSC on his recommendation of WSC to the vacancy in the Lewes Division of Sussex and his belief that "the idiots at the Central Office" should support WSC if he accepted the programme of Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] except for Preference. Invites WSC to Herstmonceux [Sussex].

Letter from F Stanley Jackson (Palace Chambers, Bridge Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC expressing the hope that a working arrangement [between Conservatives and Liberals] can be devised, "tho' the difficulties in the way are not small.".