Letter from Sir Ernest Cassel (Brook House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC on the awaited reply to the British offer to the German government of negotiations on the question of naval expenditure.

Letter from 2nd Lord Esher (The Roman Camp, Callander, [Perthshire, Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him on his speeches [on naval policy].

Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (Ewelme Down, Wallingford, [Berkshire]) to WSC on their forthcoming discussion of war plans. Hopes WSC will speak on the second reading of the Home Rule Bill.

Letter from Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] (4 Carlton Gardens, Pall Mall, [London]) to WSC returning his memorandum [on the naval situation at home and in the Mediterranean] and expressing anxiety that Britain and France may be left without eachother's assistance in the first fortnight of a war. Annotated by WSC with the names of the Prime Minister and Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon].

Letter from Lord Nicholson [earlier Sir William Nicholson] (The Mythe, Simla, [India]) to WSC thanking him for his congratulations [on his ennoblement] and describing his work as chairman of the Commission on Indian Army Expenditure. Thinks WSC will need to revise the existing naval arrangements in the Mediterranean.

Letter from Francis Grenfell (Esplanade Hotel, Berlin, [Germany]) to WSC congratulating him on his speech on the navy estimates and the German Navy Law and describing reaction to it in Germany. Encloses a copy of the Berliner Zeitung reporting the speech [see CHAR 2/57/8] and reports on the keenness in Germany for war with France.

Edition of the Berliner Zeitung [Germany] reporting WSC's speech on the navy estimates and the German Navy Law. Sent with CHAR 2/57/7.

Letter from Henry Massingham (The Nation, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London) to WSC explaining why he criticised WSC's speech in Glasgow [Scotland] on naval defence and why he wishes WSC held a government post other than First Lord of the Admiralty.

Note by ? [Hotel Ritz, Paseo del Prado, Madrid, [Spain] expressing the wish to meet WSC and perhaps other leading men in Kiel [Germany] and referring to Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's desire to reach a workable compromise with Britain over the naval question.

Cutting from the People: cartoon and article ridiculing WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England; report of WSC's re-organisation of the Admiralty and his changes to Navy discipline.

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on: the need for Britain to maintain its naval strength; the support of most Unionists of Andrew Bonar Law's position on Home Rule for Ireland; the vital importance of recognising that Ulster can never be dealt with by force.

Letter from WSC to ? thanking him for articles [on Land Reform] and referring to his preparations for his speech on the Naval Estimates on 26 March Typescript copy.

Letter from WSC to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] referring to [a draft of a speech by him on naval policy], with reply by Grey on the possible German reaction.

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC on the reaction in Britain, Germany and France to WSC to WSC's speech on naval expenditure.

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC asserting that now that peace has been concluded between Greece and Turkey there is no reason why the British and French naval squadrons should not meet at Piraeus [Greece].

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne (Templeton House, Priory Lane, Roehampton, [London]) to WSC accusing him of betraying the traditions of Liberalism with his high naval expenditure.

Letter from Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (Alderley Park, Chelford, Cheshire) to WSC suggesting a conciliatory approach to the critics of his naval estimates.

Letter from Sir Douglas French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres (War Office) expressing regret that he will no longer be working with WSC "in that happy union of the Army and Navy which you have done so much to bring about.".

Letter from Walter Long [later Lord Long] (Rood Ashton, Trowbrige, [Wiltshire]) to WSC on the naval action off Coronel [Chile] and the German bombardment of Scarborough [Yorkshire] and Hartlepool [County Durham].

Page from the Public Ledger (Philadelphia, [United States]) including article and photograph on the sinking of HMS "Audacious".

Letter from Lord Haldane [earlier Richard Haldane] (28 Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster, [London]) to WSC congratulating him [on the result of the naval battle off Dogger Bank in which the German battleship "Blucher" was sunk].

Cutting from the Times reporting German statements about the German war economy, the dismissal of Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], British naval construction, negotiations on the economic relations between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and German casualty figures.

Navy and army services, warlike operations and other expenditure arising out of the war . . . Supplementary vote of credit. Printed. Two copies.

Return to a House of Commons order for copies of Treasury minutes relating to War Department expenditure and Admiralty and War Department contracts for munitions of war.