Letter from Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (House of Commons) to WSC on the forthcoming vote and debate on colonial trade and the collapse of the government's proposals for reform of the army.

Letter from John Seely [later 1st Lord Mottistone] (Villa Adria, Langenschwalbach, Germany) to WSC expressing the hope that WSC will not allow Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] to put off the colonial vote and approving WSC's resolution on the new scheme of army reform. Mentions his horse rides through the mountains of the area and the fact that the local people think he is a spy.

Letter from St John Brodrick (House of Commons) to WSC expressing the view that WSC's speech of the previous night on army reform was different in tone to some of his previous ones.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (War Office) to ? Douglas suggesting that the Yeomanry bands on Salisbury Plain [Wiltshire] could play to the soldiers in civilian dress without contravening the Army Mourning Order [arising from the death of King Edward VII]. Signed typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/45/99.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (San Antonio Palace, Malta) to [Erskine] Childers commenting on Childers' book on the training and arming of the Cavalry [War and the Arme Blanche] and justifying his opinions by descriptions of actions in Afghanistan, 1879, the Boer War, 1900, and the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria [part of China]. Signed and annotated typescript.

Figures, with explanatory notes, on the relationship between national income and defence spending from 1812 to 1910, compiled for Reginald McKenna [First Lord of the Admiralty.] Annotated typescript.

Letter from [WSC] (Admiralty) to John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] giving his views on the training and equipping of the yeomanry. Typescript copy.

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 [WSC] to John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] suggesting changes to the new yeomanry drilling manual. Typescript copy.

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 Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres] (22 North Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, [London]) to WSC enclosing military maps and a pamphlet on the Normandy peninsula [France] to illustrate his recent remarks on the strength of an Anglo- French military alliance.

Letter from Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], Inspector General of the Forces (Horse Guards, Whitehall, [London]), to WSC on a memorandum WSC has sent referring to the need for six army divisions to be sent from India.

Letter from Henry Massingham (the Nation, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London) to WSC explaining that he has not been fully superintending the Nation due to illness and giving his views on the army's role in the policing of the railway strike.

Letter from Lord Roberts on how well the Turks fight when well led and on the need for reform of the Territorial Army. Annotated by WSC with an excerpt from his reply.

Letter from Lord Charles Beresford [later Lord Beresford] to WSC, asking him to be in the House of Commons to support his efforts to control waste and extravagance in the armed services.

Letter from F.E. Lawson-[ ] to WSC, on reform of the Army Medical Department.

Cutting from the Morning Post, report on speech by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Lord St Aldwyn to his constituents in Clifton, on the Education Bill, resistance to the payment of Rates, the growth of national expenditure and the reform of the Army and Navy.

Letter from Lord Rosebery to WSC, asking for information on the Militia and the Volunteers.

Letter from Arnold White to WSC, congratulations on speech on the Army, opposing the Broderick reforms on the grounds of expense.

Letter from Major Ernest Gordon to WSC, on the need for co-operation between critics of the Army.

Accounts showing income and expenditure of a 10 Company Territorial Battalion, [The Northumberland Fusiliers] by H. Worsley Gough.

Letter from Lady Jeune [later Lady St Helier] to WSC, partly personal, also on Army reform.

Letter from John Vaughan to WSC, sending notes on The Problem of the Army, published in The Times, Jan 1903.