Letter from A E Southernwood (142 Waller Road, New Cross, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/122/39 and CHAR 2/122/40 and hoping that WSC will get the War Office to keep its promise to release Deptford cattle market [London].

Letter from Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Miles (Earl Soham, Framlingham, Suffolk) to WSC giving his views on the administrative structures of the Admiralty and the War Office arising from his experience as a member of the Weir Committee, remembering the events described in ["The World Crisis"] from his time at the War Office between 1904 and 1912, and approving the appointment of Sir John Chancellor [as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia].

Letter from Sir Philip Chetwode [later Lord Chetwode] (Government House, Farnborough, Hampshire) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment [as Chancellor of the Exchequer], expressing the Army's relief at the return of the new government and asking him not to be "too ferocious with the poor Army", which is beginning to get back to 1914 standards.

Extract from the "Times": statement by 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] at Oxford rejecting the charge that WSC as Chancellor of the Exchequer was advocating increased spending on the Army and Navy. Typescript copy.

Letter from Brigadier-General Christopher Baker-Carr (6 Nevern Road, [London]) to WSC stressing the importance of the Madden Gun (light automatic machine gun) and the difficulty of getting the military authorities and leading members of the government to see this.

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.

Description [? by WSC] of the serious unrest within the army in January and February 1919.

Letter from [WSC] to 2nd Lord Esher [earlier Reginald Brett] arguing that the Antwerp expedition had an important effect on where the western front line was established and condemning the "criminal blindness" which prevented the naval and military authorities uniting to make the Dardanelles campaign a success. Argues that the assembly of any sort of army at all to meet Britain's post-war commitments was a notable achievement. Typescript copy.

Letter from Sir John Simon (House of Commons) praising his speech [in the House of Commons defending his decision to keep ceremonial dress for the Guards and the Household Cavalry], promising to praise WSC's appliance of science to war when he gets the chance but adding that he (Simon) "must keep banging away until you meet us on present day needs.".

Preface [?by WSC] to Captain H K A Evans's history of the 4th Hussars discussing the role of the cavalry on the Western Front. Another copy at CHAR 2/110/150-152.

Letter from Captain Russell Steele (Eastbourne House, Devizes, Wiltshire) to [WSC] asking him to use his influence to ensure that all regiments in the army are re-issued with full dress uniform for ceremonial occasions.

Letter from [WSC] to 17th Lord Derby arguing that Mustafa Kemal Pasha [later Ataturk] and a reconciled Turkey should be used as a barrier against the Bolsheviks and to safeguard British interests in the Middle East and India, and that an Anglo-French defensive alliance would be a good idea provided France agreed to let Germany revive economically and so form a barrier to the westward spread of Bolshevism. Also discusses Derby's Territorial Army division. Typescript copy.

Letter from WSC (41 Cromwell Road) to Lord Cromer asking for his evidence to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry to be amended to make it clear that he favoured the military attack after the naval operation was abandoned and that the matter was discussed in Cabinet. Copy in WSC' s hand.

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 2/81/6.