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].

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Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War] (War Office) stating that WSC has no objection to the guard being withdrawn from Chequers [Buckinghamshire] in circumstances of "imminent active operations".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.

Minute from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to CSC stating that they will be happy to give up the Private Secretary's bedroom at Chequers for John S Churchill; and that he has asked Commander Charles Thompson [Personal Assistant to the Minister of Defence] to arrange for telephones to be installed in Number One bedroom. Initialled. Copy. Annotated messages from Martin to Thompson and from Thompson to Martin on these arrangements.

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.

Note [?from Private Office] to WSC informing him of Bernard Baruch's expected arrival in the United Kingdom tomorrow [29 Mar 1945], giving details of Mr Baruch's party, and asking about the arrangements at Chequers for entertaining Mr Baruch, Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] and John Winant [United States Ambassador in London] [annotated typescript].

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.