Letter in French from Victor Augagneur [French Minister of the Marine] (Paris) to [WSC] indicating agreement with British proposals for Angle-French naval co-operation in the eastern Mediterranean with reference to the attacks on the Dardanelles and Alexandretta (31 Jan). With notes that Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener have seen the letter and that WSC thinks it is satisfactory (3 Feb). Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/56.

Letter in French from Victor Augagneur, French Minister of the Marine, to WSC agreeing with the plans for the Dardanelles operations set out in a recent memorandum from WSC and giving details of the relevant French naval dispositions. With notes that the letter was seen by [Herbert Asquith], Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener, and that it is satisfactory to WSC. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/63.

Note by the Admiralty Transport Department on the move of the 29th Division and the 2nd Mounted Division from Avonmouth to the Mediterranean. Printed. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/58.

Minute by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson to [Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver] on the hindering of Vice-Admiral Sackville Carden's operations in the Dardanelles by concealed batteries of howitzers and the need to occupy the Gallipoli peninsula to ensure safe passage of troops through the straits (11 Mar). With note from [Lord Kitchener] to [WSC] stating that no attempt on Gallipoli should be made until the 29th Division has arrived (13 Mar), and circulation note (13 Mar). Printed copy.

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson (Admiralty) to Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] stating that he is not prepared to become First Sea Lord under any First Lord of the Admiralty other than WSC. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/64.

Secretary's notes [minutes] of a meeting of a War Council on 28 Jan 1915 on France and Egypt, Nyassaland, East Africa, the "Konigsberg", the Press Bureau, the Zeebrugge [Belgium] Project, co-ordination of effort by the Allies, the Dardanelles, high explosives and the naval campaign. Printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence, July 1916. Sent with CHAR 2/86/1.

Secretary's notes [minutes] of a War Council meeting on 28 Jan 1915 on the general policy of the war, gunboats for the Danube, naval attack on Zeebrugge [Belgium] and the Dardanelles. Printed for the Committee of Imperial Defence, July 1916. Sent with CHAR 2/86/1.

Letter from CSC to WSC, on her stay with Jacques and Consuelo Balsan at Lou Sueil, Eze, also advising him to stand up to Lord Beatty over the Naval Estimates.

Letter from Lieutenant Charles Shakespear, HMS Forth, Submarine Depot, Devonport, to WSC, on collision between HMS Venus and [HMS] Russell, the subsequent court of enquiry and Shakespear's appointment to the Submarine Depot, Devonport "in disgrace" [Shakespear was the Navigating Officer of HMS Venus].

Letter from Lieutenant Charles Shakespear, HMS Venus, to WSC, on the Mediterranean Fleet Battle Practice.

Letter from WSC to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ernle Chatfield, First Sea Lord on anti-submarine methods, particularly Nichol Prisms, advocated by Prof F A Lindemann [later Lord Cherwell]. These prisms would enable air observers to see through water by cutting out glare - stating that they had been abandoned after the Great War as the waters of the North Sea and Atlantic were greenish and opaque. Asking if they might be more useful in the clear waters of the Mediterranean [carbon].

Letter from WSC to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, (Tingewick House, Buckingham), suggesting that he came to Chartwell for lunch to discuss defence matters. Commenting on meeting with Admiral of the Fleet Sir Ernle Chatfield, First Sea Lord, stating that he felt that the Navy was "quite capable of looking after itself", but that he was worried that "at this time of crisis" seven of Britain's capital ships were on the "sick list" [carbon].

Letter from Vice-Admiral Reginald Henderson, Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, to WSC, on defence of warships against air attack.

"National defence notes" issued by the Navy Committee on the issues at stake in the forthcoming naval conference.

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, Tingewick House, Buckingham to WSC. On article in the Sunday Pictorial by Sir Reginald Bacon, on the Royal Navy in the First World War. Describing Bacon as a "most unscrupulous and vindictive liar".