Correspondence with Frederick W. Tattersall, cotton trade and financial journalist, relating to an offer by Tattersall to supply information on the cotton trade to the Manchester Guardian, with an invoice for Tattersall's services, and discussion and confirmation of the rate of payment for his work. Also included are internal memoranda discussing the subject.
There is also discussion of the termination of Tattersall's weekly trade article for the Manchester City News, and correspondence with [John] Cuming Walters, journalist and editor, explaining the reasons for the change, and discussing Tattersall's work.