Copy of a letter from WSC [Chancellor of the Exchequer] to William Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, accepting naval estimates of £55,865,000 provided that the Treasury and Admiralty will continue to attempt to reduce expenditure; discussing scheduling of Cabinet enquiries into the Fleet Air Arm and Cordite Reserve; and undertaking to make no opposition to one larger type cruiser being built the following year.Unsigned carbon typescript.

Minute from WSC to 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and the Controller of the Navy [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser], on a letter from Admiral [?Sir Reginald] Henderson [former Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy] on cruiser design. [initialled by WSC].

Minute from Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, 1st Sea Lord, to WSC on the decision to build 6" rather than 8" cruisers.

Printed note by WSC for the War Cabinet on Scapa Flow [Orkney Islands, Scotland], containing an independent account by Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso].

Printed note by WSC for the War Cabinet on planned joint Naval mining operations with the French, involving the Royal Marines.

Envelope, in WSC's manuscript, headed "Misc private correspondence": on Admiralty appointments, Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] and [David] Euan Wallace [Senior Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence in London]; endorsed with Prime Ministerial seal.

Manuscript letter from Eric Seal [Principal Private Secretary to WSC] on naval staff appointments, mentions: Vice-Admiral John Tovey [Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet], Vice-Admiral John Cunningham [Commanding First Cruiser Squadron], Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips [Vice-Chief of Naval Staff] and Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean; annotated by WSC.

Letter and envelope from King George VI to WSC enclosing list of names for Admiralty posts, mentions Rear-Admiral [William] Campbell Tait and Lord Louis Mountbatten; list of names of captains: Rhoderick McGrigor [Chief of Staff, China Station]; Loben Maund [Naval Chief of Staff, Narvik [Norway] operations]; Charles Woodhouse; George Creasy; H Oram; Charles Lambe; Michael Denny [Deputy Director of Naval Ordnance, Admiralty] and G Menzies. [Manuscript].

Letter from Eric Seal to WSC on acting as his Principal Private Secretary, appointments at the Admiralty, particularly a successor to George Cotton [Under-Secretary, Admiralty] at Bath [Somerset]. [Manuscript].

Letter from A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] to WSC on the appointment of a new Permanent Secretary; mentions Eric Seal replacing George Cotton as Under-Secretary at Bath [Somerset].

Letter, annotated, from WSC to [Franklin Roosevelt], President of the United States, on surrendering or scuttling of the British Fleet. [Typescript].

Printed parliamentary proceedings of the debate on the loss of HMS Glorious, speakers: Richard Stokes; Austin Hopkinson; A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Commander Robert Bower and 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour].

Extract from official report of personal explanations made in Parliament by Commander Robert Bower on the evacuation of Narvik [Norway] and the loss of HMS Glorious.

Letter from WSC to Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] giving detailed suggestions for improvements to the first part of his naval memoirs. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Tingewick, Buckinghamshire) to WSC thanking him for reviewing the chapters [from his naval memoirs], discussing the chapter on the Dogger Bank action and an incident involving Tirpitz.

Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Tingewick, Buckinghamshire) to WSC describing his proposed account of the Dardanelles campaign and asking to see WSC to discuss it.

Letter from [WSC] to [Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, later 1st Lord Keyes] approving [a foreword to the chapter from Keyes's naval memoirs on the Dardanelles campaign]. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire] to WSC describing how he criticises Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] in his account of the Dardanelles campaign and how he treats the Dogger Bank action.

Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire] discussing Keyes's account of the Dardanelles campaign and suggesting that his brother [Sir Terence Keyes] could supply from India valuable information and suggestions for criticism of the White Paper.