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 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].

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 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].

Address by Rear-Admiral Reginald Bacon [Managing Director of the Coventry Ordnance Works] to the [Institute of Naval Architects] on battleship design, sent to WSC by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher with covering note. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/21/105 for original note].

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].

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 Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]), to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/115-116 for original].

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.

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.

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to an unidentified correspondent on awarding contracts for naval gunnery systems, particularly the cases of Arthur Pollen and Commander Frederic Dreyer. [Carbon].

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 Naval Secretary [Rear-Admiral Dudley de Chair] on the appointment of Vice-Admiral Robert Lowry as Admiral Commanding in Scotland. [Typescript copy].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] (Hotel National, Lucerne [Switzerland]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on members and work of the Commission. [2 typescript copies; original at CHAR 13/14/120-121].

Telegram from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 2nd Sea Lord [Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe] on naval policy in the Mediterranean; includes proposed telegram and actual telegram to the Vice-Admiral aboard King Edward VII on blockading the coast around the mouth of the river Drin [Albania]. [Carbon].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] (Hotel National, Lucerne [Switzerland]), to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the composition and remit of the Commission. [Typescript copy; original at CHAR 13/14/122-131].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on the need for training in handling of light cruiser squadrons. [Carbon copy].

Note by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher on "Battleships and Trade in the Mediterranean", stressing the necessity of holding up or destroying hostile flotillas of submarines and destroyers before a war or trade fleet could be at large there. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/133-136 for original].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on proposals for cruiser distribution. [Carbon copy].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], on cruiser deployment, particularly the war station of HMS Dartmouth in the China Squadron. [Carbon copy].

Letter from Thomas Macnamara [Financial Secretary to the Admiralty] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with a report on his visit to the naval base on Haulbowline Island [County Cork, Ireland].

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 the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on cruiser deployment and the status of Commander-in-Chief at the East Indies and the Cape. [Carbon copy].