Minute from WSC, (Admiralty Yacht [Enchantress]), to Sir Edward Grey, [Foreign Secretary] and the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on naval policy in the Mediterranean, particularly regarding France. [Hand-written, initialled by WSC, Asquith and Grey, with typed transcript].

Minute from Prince Louis of Battenberg [2nd Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] (Admiralty), to WSC, on the concentration of Battle Fleets in Home Waters and the policy of building up the Fleet Reserve.

Draft letter from WSC (Admiralty), to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], on the ship-building programme for 1912-13. [Typescript copy, with hand-written annotations by WSC].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] (The Wharf, Sutton Courtney, Berkshire) to David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer], on naval pay. [Hand-written copy, with envelope, initialled by WSC, ? not sent].

Letter from Lionel Yexley, [Editor of] the Fleet, (8 York Road, Ilford [Essex], to WSC, on naval pay and conditions.

Minute from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], on the actions to be followed by the Navy during the threatened coal strike. [Typescript copy, with address to 1st Sea Lord struck through].

Minute from [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, 1st Sea Lord] to WSC, on coaling arrangements for the Navy during the threatened coal strike.

Admiralty memorandum on remarks by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German Navy Law and amendments to the British naval construction programme. [Typescript].

Letter from WSC to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], on the interchange of naval information with Germany, suggesting that the Government reply to the German proposal on interchange after the German elections. [Typescript copy].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the naval building programme and the policy of 60 per cent superiority in Dreadnoughts over the next strongest power. [Typescript].

Minute from WSC [(Admiralty)], to the Accountant-General of the Navy [Alfred Eyles], 3rd Sea Lord [Vice-Admiral Charles Briggs], Financial Secretary to the Admiralty [Thomas Macnamara], and Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty [Sir Francis Hopwood, later 1st Lord Southborough], on the Naval Estimates for 1912 and 1913-14. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC, to Sir Edward Grey, [Foreign Secretary] and Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on naval policy with France in the Mediterranean. [Typed transcript].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Director of the Manning Department, on the formation of the 6th and 8th Battle Squadrons. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 2nd Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], and the Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], on provision of medical facilities in Harwich [Essex]. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on implementation of a new system of refits. Noted to be circulated to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], 2nd Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], 3rd Sea Lord [Vice-Admiral Charles Briggs], Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty [Sir Francis Hopwood, later 1st Lord Southborough], Director of Naval Equipment [Captain Arthur Waymouth] and the Director of Dockyards [Sir James Marshall]. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)], to Vice-Admiral Cecil Burney [Vice-Admiral Commanding the 3rd Squadron], on Burney's notes on the naval manoeuvres, including the strategical circumstances arising from the outbreak of war with Germany and Fleet coaling arrangements on the east coast of Scotland. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], and the Director of the Manning Department, on proposed fleet and ship movements. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], 2nd Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and 3rd Sea Lord [Vice-Admiral Charles Briggs], and the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [? Sir Henry Jackson], on the protection of Wireless Rooms in the ships of the First Fleet. WSC asks how many were unprotected, and if it were true that this defect existed in almost all battleships except the most modern ones. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 3rd Sea Lord [Vice-Admiral Charles Briggs] and the Director of Naval Ordnance [Rear-Admiral Frederick Tudor, earlier Frederick Jones], on reports of faults with the cordite hoists of HMS Natal, asking if it was true that she could not fire 30 rounds quickly from any guns because the little rollers in the cordite hoists were broken off or jammed. [Carbon].

2 copies of minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Secretary, Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], asking him to bring the memorandum [on Imperial defence for the Canadian Government] before the Board of Admiralty. WSC gives the text of a minute to be read to the Board if no agreement is reached on the memorandum, and gives details of appendices to the memorandum. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the secret Canadian Memorandum [on Imperial Defence], stating that he found it difficult to understand why he received little support from his two principal naval colleagues [1st Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, and 2nd Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and the Chief of Staff [? Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge]. [Carbon, annotated "not sent"].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on alterations to the Canadian naval memorandum, and its dispatch to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] via Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies. [Carbon].