Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later Lord Keyes] (Admiralty House, Portsmouth, [Hampshire]) to WSC recalling a talk he had with Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte at the time of the Dardanelles campaign.

Letter from [WSC] to Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte (5 Rue de Neptune, Brest, Finisterre [France]) agreeing with his praise of Vice-Admiral John de Robeck and praising the French naval squadron which fought in the Dardanelles campaign. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter in French from Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte (5 Rue de Neptune, Brest, Finisterre, [France]) to WSC thanking him for his reply to Guepratte's letter criticising his article on the Dardanelles campaign [see CHAR 2/169/76-77 and 79-82] and regretting the vehemence of his first letter.

Letter from [WSC] to Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte (5 Rue de Neptune, Brest, Finisterre, [France]) responding to his critical letter [see CHAR 2/169/79-82] by inviting him to read volume two of "The World Crisis" for the full story of the naval attack on the Dardanelles and asserting that the telegram sent by Vice-Admiral John de Robeck on 10 May 1915 invited a negative answer to the question of renewing the naval attack on the straits. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter in French from Vice-Admiral Paul Guepratte (5 Rue de Neptune, Brest, Finisterre, [France]) to WSC criticising a recent article by WSC on the Dardanelles campaign in which WSC asserted that the telegram sent by Vice-Admiral John de Robeck on 10 May 1915 invited a negative answer to the question of renewing the naval attack on the straits.

Letter from Sir Henry Wilson (War Office) to WSC congratulating him on his speech arguing that Britain should keep its naval power intact.

Letter from WSC (Ministry of Munitions) to [David Lloyd George] expressing the desire to be appointed to the Admiralty rather than the War Office and arguing that the development of aircraft will best be undertaken by the Admiralty. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Note from WSC to James Masterton-Smith asking for the dates when Lord Jellicoe [earlier Sir John Jellicoe] was Director of Naval Ordnance, Third Sea Lord and Second Sea Lord and referring to his responsibility for the design of the 'Invincible' the 'Indomitable' and the 'Queen Mary'.

Note from James Masterton-Smith to [WSC] giving the dates when Lord Jellicoe [earlier Sir John Jellicoe] was Director of Naval Ordnance, Controller of the Navy and Second Sea Lord, assigning to Jellicoe the responsibility for the design of the 'Queen Mary' and stating the accepted reason for the loss of the 'Queen Mary', the 'Indefatigable' and the 'Invincible' at the Battle of Jutland. Annotated typescript.

Statement of the respective strengths of the dreadnought fleets of Great Britain and Germany at the outbreak of war and the subsequent actual and expected reinforcements of the fleets. Printed. Originally attached to CHAR 2/105/8-10.

"Comparison of the armour protection and principal characteristics of HMS "Queen Mary" and the German battle cruiser "Seydlitz"." Printed. Originally attached to CHAR 2/105/8-10.

Letter from Walter Long [later Lord Long] (Admiralty) to WSC informing him that the report of the court of enquiry into the conduct of Commodore Wilfred Henderson during the Antwerp expedition will not be published and that the court has no power to reprimand officers criticised in its report.

Letter from [WSC] to Walter Long [later Lord Long] praising the work at the Admiralty and in the Mediterranean of Rear-Admiral Thomas Jackson and noting that he has received no formal recognition of his war service. Thanks Long for his support that morning. Typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir William Pickford [later Lord Sterndale] arguing that the evidence taken by the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry from Rear-Admiral Roger Keyes [later Lord Keyes] showed that there was universal agreement about the continuation of the naval attack on the straits until Rear-Admiral John de Robeck called it off in March 1915, after which the navy's offensive effectiveness was severely reduced. Typescript copy. Annotated: "not sent in".

Letter from WSC (Ministry of Munitions) to Lord Jellicoe [earlier Sir John Jellicoe] pointing out that no one at the Admiralty, including Jellicoe, had believed that the Germans would sink merchant ships or had pushed for measures to make Scapa Flow and the Firth of Forth submarine-proof. Argues that the Admiralty's preparations for war were generally very successful. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from WSC to Lord Zetland rejecting Zetland's implication that WSC as First Lord of the Admiralty appointed the late Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock to the command of an inadequate squadron on the American station which was then involved in the action off Coronel [Chile]. Annotated typescript copy.

Note by [Lord Fisher, earlier Sir John Fisher] that if the recent return of British shipping losses is correct Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] [First Lord of the Admiralty] was right to reprimand Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [later Lord Jellicoe] for saying that the German submarine menace had been grappled with effectively.

Comments by Rear-Admiral Doveton Sturdee on long commissions in the Royal Navy. Signed and annotated typescript.

Comments by Rear-Admiral Doveton Sturdee on the advantages which would be gained if officers and men in the Royal Navy knew that they had some certainty of remaining in their ship for a commission unless they were promoted or appointed to go through some course for their advancement. Signed and annotated typescript.

Letter from J W Reed, manager of Palmer & Co, Jarrow [County Durham], on the need for British firms to make rapid progress with the development of diesel engines for warships in order not to fall behind Germany in this field. Typescript copies.

"The submarine. (A contribution to the consideration of future sea fighting.)" Extracts from a memorandum presented by Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later Lord Oxford and Asquith] in February 1914, with related extracts from the Truth (4 Feb 1914) and the Daily Mail (2 Dec 1915). Printed. Another, incomplete, copy at CHAR 2/92/77-79.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to WSC offering his services as "a pusher and organiser" and asserting that "the air will win the war now" as a result of Arthur Balfour's [later Lord Balfour] apathy with the Navy. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/92/20.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (36 Berkeley Square, [London]) to WSC reporting that he has heard that WSC is to go to Scotland with David Lloyd George and is involved in a conference on a British military advance along the Belgian coast in conjunction with a naval action. Asserts that "success depends on smoke and gas from the sea." Typescript copy at CHAR 2/92/22.

Newspaper cuttings on: on the overriding necessity of defeating Germany; the advantages of the new oil-driven battleships; the need for a more co-ordinated system of defence against German air raids.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to WSC referring to to the five new fast battle cruisers and stressing the need for oil to be stored for oil-driven battleships. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/92/33.