Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)] to [?] Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] [or to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary] on sending the memorandum on Canadian emergency contribution to the Royal Navy of 3 Dreadnoughts to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Carbon, with hand-written annotations].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada], enclosing memoranda [not present, on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Secretary, Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], on sending memoranda [on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy] to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [? Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary] on memoranda [on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty [Thomas Macnamara], replying to Macnamara's comments [not present] on [Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to an unknown correspondent, enclosing a memorandum by the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [? Sir Henry Jackson], on the importance of developing the Territorial Forces in the Orkney and Shetland Isles [Scotland], to counter German influence and protect a naval wireless station on the Shetlands. WSC requests that the memorandum be shown to General Sir John French [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Ypres]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman] on the naval manoeuvres, including the working of the Cruiser Cordon, coastal patrols and unsatisfactory coaling measures. [Typescript, initialled by WSC, with carbon copy].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], commenting on a secret paper [not present] on harbour and coast defences [? in Canada], including a suggested Canadian flotilla for the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada, possibilities of war with Japan and the importance of having a dock for a fleet on the Pacific coast of Canada in case of such a war. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada], on making Canada's [emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy] public. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], and the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Sir Henry Jackson] commenting on the paper "War allocation of Patrol Flotillas": WSC particularly notes the lavish appropriation by the flotillas of cruisers of various kinds but uniformly low fighting power, commenting that it should be necessary to have just one cruiser ateach base, rather than one for each senior officer. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] and the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], on a report by the Naval Intelligence Division on relative German and British naval strength. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], on the desirability of issuing an Admiralty memorandum on the naval manoeuvres to Flag Officers; WSC also comments on the memorandum itself and various points for praise or criticism. [Annotated typescript, initialled by WSC].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on the necessity for encouragement of the shipbuilding industry in Canada, particularly the construction of warships in Canadian shipyards.

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 3rd Sea Lord [? Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore] on the increase in spending on ammunition in the Naval Estimates. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Civil Lord of the Admiralty [George Lambert], the Additional Civil Lord [Sir Francis Hopwood, later 1st Lord Southborough] and the Director of Works, Admiralty [Thomas Sims], on spending on construction and development works in the Naval Estimates. [Carbon].

Minute from Rear-Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence, to WSC, on the naval construction programme, 1912-1919, necessary to maintain Britain's 60 per cent superiority over the German navy. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary to the Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], on a draft letter [not present] to the India Office on the naval defence of India. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Prince Louis of Battenberg [1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], on naval aviation, suggesting that it should be the responsibility of the 2nd Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George] forecasting the Naval Estimates for 1913-14.

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], 2nd Sea Lord [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], 3rd Sea Lord [? Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore] and Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Sir Henry Jackson], forecasting the Naval Estimates for 1913-14. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the report [not present] of the Royal Commission on Oil Fuel and the planned oil reserve; includes minute from WSC to the 4th Sea Lord [Captain William Pakenham], Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty [Sir Francis Hopwood, later 1st Lord Southborough] and the Accountant General [Alfred Eyles], asking for the relevant figures. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)] to 1st Lord Crewe [Secretary of State for India, earlier Robert Crewe-Milnes and 2nd Lord Houghton] on India's contribution to Imperial naval defence. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on India's contribution to Imperial naval defence and the cost of naval services in Indian waters. [Carbon].

Speech by WSC, in reply to a Parliamentary Question on a series of articles in the Globe on the Navy's oil fuel contracts, concerning the Shell Company and Mexican Eagle Company. WSC comments particularly on the risk of becoming reliant upon Shell as a Dutch-owned company based in the Netherlands and the links between Shell and the Globe Publishing Company. [Carbon].

Minute [by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] on proposals for further reducing the Admiralty scheme of Navy Pay. [Carbon].