[Sir John Fischer Williams, international lawyer.] Typed Letter Signed ('John Fischer Williams') to R. F. Harrod, Hon. Sec., Oxford University Liberal Association, expounding at length on Professor Gilbert Murray and proportional representation.

2pp., foolscap 8vo. On two leaves, with the second attached at the head of the blank reverse to a piece of grey card. In fair condition, on aged paper. He writes that he will be 'very glad to sign the memorandum enclosed with your letter of the 14th instant in support of Professor Gilbert Murray'. He proceeds to remark at length on a 'statement in the last paragraph of the memorandum as to the working of Proportional Representation'. His conclusion is that 'the last sentence as it stands does not express quite correctly the working of the system', and he gives a ten-line alternative conclusion. In conclusion he writes: 'But if Oxford is still what it used to be, I am not sure that it might not be wiser to say nothing on a subject which lends itself so easily to inconclusive discussion. | I ought perhaps to explain that my claim to write to you on this point is based on the fact that I have been intimately connected with the Proportional Representation Society for more than twenty years and have been the draftsman of the rules which have served as a model in all systems of the single transferable vote.'