This reel contains letters from Bryce and Lord Rosebery about the House of Lords, British political parties, and the growing support for tariff protection. One of the few letters in the collection from Francis A. Channing is dated January first and explains his approval of old age pensions, which Smith had long opposed in letters published in the Spectator. There are a number of letters from old friends in England, and a few from Americans commenting on the new administration in Washington. Merriman discussed the difficulty of creating a constitution for South Africa. In November he wrote, "A high qualification and a franchise without any colour line is the solution that commends itself to me." He observed that while one race got rich through its labor, the other sank through idleness "into a condition of apathetic and contented poverty. We have not yet got to the condition of S. Carolina." Though he had withdrawn from active participation in the Associated Charities of Toronto, Smith supported the development of a free employment bureau and personally maintained a relief fund administered by the Labour Temple. He opposed a temperance movement that sought to reduce drastically the number of liquor licenses without compensating the licensees who would summarily be put out of business. There are a number of letters and copies of documents concerning the Cobalt Lake case, a dispute that began over mining claims. A Canadian court decided that subsequent legislation made an earlier contract invalid. Smith joined with others in questioning the legality of the decision.