Minute from CSC to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] suggesting that when John S Churchill arrives at Chequers he occupies the Private Secretary's bedroom; and that the Number One bedroom could be used instead by the Private Office. Initialled. Annotated.

Minute from Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to General [Sir Hastings] Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence] on the camouflage of a monument north-east of Chequers [Buckinghamshire], an oddly ploughed field near the house, and provision of "mobile guns" to protect WSC. Copy.

Minute from Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC on withdrawing the Chequers [Buckinghamshire] guard "during, or immediately preceding, active operations in this country" and WSC's reply agreeing to this if he gets "definite prior notice". Copies.

Letter from "C R T" [Commander Charles Thompson, Personal Assistant to WSC] to [Vernon] Bovenizer [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War] (War Office) stating that WSC has no objection to the guard being withdrawn from Chequers [Buckinghamshire] in circumstances of "imminent active operations". Copy.

Note and minute from Commander [Charles] Thompson [Personal Assistant to WSC] to WSC on camouflaging the lakes at Chartwell [Kent] and a monument at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], attaching a note from Captain John [G] Churchill, Camouflage Officer, Anti-Aircraft Command. Manuscript note and signed typescripts.

Letter from WSC to Miss G Lamont [Administrator, Chequers, Buckinghamshire] thanking her for the birthday cake.

Correspondence between Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC], WSC, Lieutenant-General Bernard Paget [Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces] and "Bert" [10th Duke of Marlborough, earlier Lord Blandford] on arrangements for Marlborough to be Liaison Officer to General Hugh Ellis, Regional Commissioner, Southern Command and also on the defences of [?] Chequers [Buckinghamshire].

Correspondence, mainly with 2nd Lord Jellicoe, Chairman of the Chequers Trust, on Clementine, Lady Churchill's gift of a painting by Churchill of Lake Geneva, Switzerland to Chequers [Buckinghamshire] with other correspondents including Robert Armstrong, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister.