Letter from Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean] (HMS Inflexible, Malta) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Mediterranean Fleet manoeuvres. [Typescript copy, with hand-written annotations by WSC].

Letter from Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean] (HMS Inflexible, Malta) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Mediterranean Fleet manoeuvres. [Initialled by WSC].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg [later 1st Lord Milford Haven] giving his ideas about future flag appointments. [Hand-written, initialled by WSC, with Battenberg's comments].

Letter from Edward Grigg [editorial staff of the Times, later 1st Lord Altrincham] (The Round Table, Piccadilly, London) to James Masterton-Smith, [Private Secretary to WSC] sending an extract from a letter from the Australian correspondent of the Times on Imperial defence.

Minute from Prince Louis of Battenberg [1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] to [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] recommending Rear-Admiral Sir [Frederick] Doveton Sturdee for the post of Chief of Staff at the Admiralty.

Letter from John Seely [Secretary of State for War, later 1st Lord Mottistone] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of the Navy Estimates by Sir John Simon [Attorney-General].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] on the Navy Estimates, particularly the requirement for a supplementary estimate of about 3 million pounds, regretting that this could not be reduced to the limit of 1.4 million required by the Treasury. [Hand-written draft, signed by WSC].

Letter from Sir Richard M'Bride, Prime Minister of British Columbia [Canada] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Canadian contribution to the Royal Navy.

Letter from J Norton Griffiths (Train en-route to Baku [Azerbaydzhan]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Anglo-German naval relations.

Note [? by Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on the extent of the grand naval manoeuvres and the advantages of extending them.

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the need to complete the Californian oil bargain, for a million tons of oil a year at 53 shillings a ton. [Carbon copy; see CHAR 13/21/66 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the need to make a contract with Henri Deterding [Director, Shell Oil Company] to secure the use of Shell oil tankers in time of war. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/21/71-73 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the interim report of the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines. [See CHAR 13/21/70 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines, advising him to read the report of the technical and scientific committee on blending and mixing of oils; Fisher also mentions the proposed installation of improved engines for battleships and attacks critics who "cast a stone at the Dreadnought type". [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/21/74-78 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines. Fisher also comments on submarines, strongly advising WSC not to go for steam power and pointing out that he could build at least 20 big submarines for one Dreadnought. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/21/87 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Navy Estimates, stating that if he were 1st Sea Lord he would guarantee a saving of 4 million pounds for 1914-15 and adding that the Estimates should be the job of the 1st Sea Lord rather than the First Lord. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/21/88 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the evidence of 1st Lord Cowdray [earlier Weetman Pearson] to the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines on supplying the Navy with oil. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/21/90 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel. Includes press cuttings on the use of oil motors in German shipyards and a letter from Sir [Thomas] Boverton Redwood [Adviser on Petroleum to the Admiralty] to Fisher.

Memorandum by Dr George Beilby [Member of the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines for the Navy] on "Alcohol as Fuel". [Duplicate typescript].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the need to complete the Californian oil bargain, for a million tons of oil a year at 53 shillings a ton. [See CHAR 13/21/12 for typescript copy].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the interim report of the Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines. [See CHAR 13/21/18-19 for typescript copy].