Three Autograph Letters Signed and one Typed Note Signed (two 'H. Campbell Bannerman' and two 'H.E.B.') from Liberal Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman to '[Sir F.] Evans', regarding the McKinley Tarriff and Joseph Chamberlain's 'big scheme'

The four items are in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The three letters addressed to 'My dear Evans'. Letter One (8 October 1903): 1p., 12mo. He asks him - as his 'memory is faint' - to 'jot down the facts & dates' of 'the story of the genesis of the Mc.Kinley tariff - Cameron, in the Iron trade, leading off, and the inevitable extension'. Letter Two (12 October 1903): 2pp., 12mo. He thanks him for the 'full and clear answer' he has given 'on the question of the American tariff', adding: 'now thanks to you I am able, if I find it comes in pat, to refer to the genesis of the tariff as an illustration of the sort of thing that is pretty certain to follow here once the door is opened'. A final paragraph reads: 'What awful weather! What becomes of all our swagger over our climate, and especially the charms of the Scottish October! I can only say I cannot recall any such season.' Letter Three (19 October 1903): 1p., 12mo. 'I have always been more afraid of the retaliation more [sic] than of J. C.'s big scheme - the latter knocks its head against free food: but the other tickles the ear of the selfish.' Typed note signed (16 December 1905): 1p., 12mo. He thanks Evans for his 'kind letter of congratulation which I was unable to acknowledge at the time I received it'. From the Evans papers.