Confidential Reports and Memoranda prepared by the Board of Trade, relative to Trade, Employment, Immigration, etc. Printed government papers, with a note that ‘these were issued at the time of the Free Trade controversy following Mr Chamberlain’s resignation of office’.
Fiscal Question, 1877, 1900, 1903-1905. Printed, mostly Cabinet memoranda on international trade and commercial treaties, with a typewritten list of contents (including several items not present).
Tariff Reform, including papers on Indian tariffs, Australian tariffs, the Brussels Sugar Convention (1912) and import duties. Mostly printed and typewritten, with letters from W.A.S. Hewins, M.P. (secretary of the Tariff Commission) and others.
Tariff Reform, including papers on Canadian tariffs, and economic arrangements between Canada and Germany. Mostly printed and typewritten, with notes by Lansdowne possibly for use in parliamentary speeches or debates.
Miscellaneous Domestic Questions. Contents as follows: Redistribution of Electorate, 1904-1905; Currency and Exchange Rates, 1908-1914; Imperial and Local Taxation, 1908-1914. Mostly printed and typewritten, including Cabinet memoranda by Lansdowne and others, with a file of letters from Moret...
The Budget. Printed and typewritten, with notes by Lansdowne, and a letter from John Stewart-Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine (later 8th Duke of Atholl), on Scottish afforestation.
Miscellaneous foreign and domestic papers of Lord Lansdowne. Contents as follows: 1. ‘The Delhi announcement’: typewritten memorandum by Lansdowne on his interview with King George V regarding the partition of Bengal, 7 February 1912. 2. Memorandum by Lansdowne on Tariff Reform, February 1912...