Letter from WSC to Lord Cromer correcting the impression given by part of his statement to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry that the Cabinet did not discuss, and were not kept informed about, the military attack. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/92.

Letter from Robert Spence Watson, president, and W Evans Darby, secretary, of the Peace Society (47 New Broad Street, London) to Herbert Asquith [later Lord Oxford and Asquith] and other members of the Government (including WSC) calling for an end to increased spending on armaments. Criticises the method of assessing the country's naval strength and asserts that there is a general tendency in other countries to reduce spending. Signed typescript.

Letter from Major-General Sir Douglas Haig [later Lord Haig] (War Office) to WSC enclosing and commenting on a report on a cavalry staff ride held by him the previous March [see CHAR 2/40/2]. Manuscript.

Report on a cavalry staff ride held by the Director of Staff Duties [Major-General Sir Douglas Haig, later Lord Haig]. 1st to 6th March, 1909. Sent with CHAR 2/40/1 [2, iv, 51, [1]p].

Letter and memorandum from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] to David Lloyd George on the need for additional funding for the new Territorial Forces and other aspects of the army estimates. Sent with CHAR 2/40/3.

Letter from [WSC] (in the train) to Edwin Montagu on: the disagreement between Lord Curzon and the Aga Khan over the latter's communication to the Turkish government of the Cabinet proposals for the revision of the [Treaty of Sevres]; the financial disputes between the India Office and the War Office; WSC's committee on the Geddes Report.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Riddell [earlier Sir George Riddell] thanking him for a Christmas box of cigars and praising his handling of the American press at the Washington Conference on disarmament.

Letter from Russel Steele (Eastbourne House, Devizes, [Wiltshire]) to [WSC] urging the reintroduction of full dress uniform in the army.

Memorandum for the Cabinet by Frederick Guest advocating compulsory military service and reorganisation of the War Office. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/67/31-32.

Letter from Frederick Guest (Head Quarters, British Army) to WSC proposing to circulate to all MPs a memorandum advocating compulsory military service and to produce a pamphlet for the working classes detailing the positive aspects of the measure.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on: the falsehood of the charge by John Dillon that the Mail was responsible for the fall of the Government, which really resulted from the revelation that the army was getting insufficient supplies of high explosives; the need for compulsory national service; the unfairness of recruiting married men into the army instead of single men.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on the unfairness of recruiting married men into the army instead of single men.

Cutting from the "Daily Mail": editorial on the unfairness of current army recruiting policy and the lack of compulsory national service, and the warning by Sir William Nicoll about the danger facing the country.

Navy and army services, warlike operations and other expenditure arising out of the war . . . Supplementary vote of credit. Printed. Two copies.

Return to a House of Commons order for copies of Treasury minutes relating to War Department expenditure and Admiralty and War Department contracts for munitions of war.

Letter from Lord Haldane [earlier Richard Haldane] (Cloan, Auchterarder, Perthshire, [Scotland]) to WSC thanking him for speaking of the importance of Haldane's pre-war army reforms.

Circular letter from Major Sir Samuel Scott, secretary of the Committee on the Promotion of Officers (War Office) announcing a meeting of the Committee at which a representative of the British Medical Association is to give evidence on the promotion of officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Force. Encloses related memorandum [see CHAR 2/94/2-3].

Memorandum by Colonel R H More on the promotion of officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Territorial Force. Sent with CHAR 2/94/2-3.

Report of a meeting [of the Committee on the Promotion of Officers on the promotion of officers in the Royal Army Medial Corps, Territorial Force].

Report on the promotion and pay of officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Special Reserve and Territorial Force.

"Report on the promotion and pay of officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Special Reserve, and Territorial Force." Printed proof.

Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] on the need to form the Cabinet, to tax war profits, to cut Government spending, to define future role of the Army, Navy and Air Force and assign the appropriate resources, to check unnecessary spending by the Admiralty, preferably by bringing the Navy as well as the other two services under a Ministry of Defence. Copy in WSC's hand.

Letter from Sir David Beatty [later Lord Beatty] (Aberdour House, Aberdour, Fife, [Scotland]) to WSC thanking him for his good wishes and expressing the hope that the [Army and Navy] will co-operate more closely together than they have done before.