Notes and aphorisms by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher on subjects including ship design, the Marconi wireless system, ship armour and gun size, the "Super-Swift" and "Super-Active" classes, and submarines. [Typescript copies; see CHAR 13/14/25-43 for originals].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with congratulations on his speech [to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 February] on the Navy in Glasgow [Scotland]; Fisher comments on warship design and construction, advising strongly against announcing building programmes two years ahead, and building ships known to be obsolete; includes report of a press cutting from the Times on ship design. [Typescript copy; originals at CHAR 13/14/53-58].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on naval gunnery and on the morale of the Home Fleet. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/86-91 for original].

Minute from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the Secretary [Sir (William) Graham Greene] and 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher] on the organization of the Admiralty War Staff, including officers who had been added to the Staff to put it on a war footing, without WSC's sanction, the enlarged Trade Section, and relations with the Admiralty administrative staff. [Carbon].

Statement by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the House of Commons on the resignation of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher as 1st Sea Lord over differences arising from the Dardanelles campaign. WSC goes through the stages of the campaign, Fisher's grounds for resigning and states his own position as First Lord. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], noting that as Austria had declared war on Japan, and in view of the situation with Turkey, the Japanese Government should be asked if they would send a battle-squadron to co-operate with the Allies. WSC adds that this would encourage Italy, and help gain command of the Baltic. Includes note by Grey asking for a meeting to discuss the matter. [Hand-written copy].

Foreign Office memorandum on the possibility of the Austrian fleet entering the Black Sea with the connivance of Turkey. [Carbon].

Telegram from Henry Beaumont, [Counsellor, British Embassy, Constantinople (later Istanbul)] reporting his conversation with the Grand Vizier, on Turkey's undertaking to remain neutral in the European War, and also on the German presence in Turkish ships. Includes note by WSC stating that this uncertainty would not do, and that a protest must be made to the Foreign Office. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver], on the disposition of ships in the Pacific. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the Secretary, Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver], on ship dispositions in the Pacific and Indian Ocean. [Carbon].

Telegram from Vice-Admiral Commanding Australian Squadron to Admiralty, on the pursuit of the German South American squadron by the Australian fleet. [Annotated and initialled by WSC, asking for a photograph of the document.].

Minute from Admiral Sir Henry Jackson to the Chief of Staff [Vice-Admiral Sir (Frederick) Doveton Sturdee], 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and First Lord of the Admiralty [WSC], on a proposed New Zealand expeditionary force to Samoa. Includes copies of replies. [Carbon].

Telegram from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, C. in C., Grand Fleet, stating that in view of Jellicoe's advice, Vice-Admiral Sir Cecil Burney would command the Grand Fleet during his incapacity. Also on Battle Cruiser organisation [typescript copy].

Telegram from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, C. in C., Grand Fleet to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on command of the Fleet during his incapacity [typescript copy].

Telegram from Sir David Beatty, 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron to Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, on repairs to HMS "Lion" [typescript copy].

Letter from Robert Spence Watson, president, and W Evans Darby, secretary, of the Peace Society (47 New Broad Street, London) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] and other members of the Government (including WSC) calling for an end to increased spending on armaments. Criticises the method of assessing the country's naval strength and asserts that there is a general tendency in other countries to reduce spending. Signed typescript.

Note of a meeting between [WSC] and Henry Massingham at which, after a discussion of the reporting in the Nation of WSC's forthcoming speech [on the Budget] in Edinburgh [Scotland], WSC gave his view of the position with regard to naval expansion. Typescript.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Sir Ernest Cassel doubting the usefulness of his (WSC) joining the King [George V] on a visit to Germany and regretting the poor relations between Britain and that country resulting from the German naval build-up. Draft in WSC's hand.

Letter from Edwin Montagu (India Office) to WSC congratulating him on his reorganisation of the Admiralty and telling the story of a portrait of Napoleon I hanging in an India Office commitee room. Signed typescript.

Letter from J L Garvin (Pall Mall Gazette, Newton Street, Holborn, [London]) to WSC suggesting WSC might be the man to lessen party antagonism and therefore expressing regret about certain passages in his speech [?at the Guildhall on naval defence in November 1911]. Thinks the Conservatives may legitimately attack WSC as a supporter of Home Rule but that they will be fair to him as First Lord of the Admiralty.