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Handwritten or typescript, some in both forms, from 1 page to 7 or 8 pages.

Interesting collection of responses, mostly British, to the question of America's neutrality in the World War which had started one year earlier. The question had apparently been posed by an American magazine. The respondents include Sir James Yoxall, MP, "...The U.S.A. can maintain neutrality, and will, whether Germany accepts President Wilson's conditions or no..."; the Earl of Portsmouth, "America and England are united by a common language, a common literature and largely by a kindred race... I do not believe that any Power can remain neutral and arbitrate itself. The belligerents must fight it out and settle the issue themselves. As regards American intervention, I feel strongly that she cannot allow the outrages agains civilization...to continue..."; Leonard Huxley, "Assuming Germany's satisfactory apology or full agreement with the demands of President Wilson, I take it there is nothing to prevent American neutrality from being maintained in the future..." And many others.