Letter from J G Maxwell (Calcutta, [India]) to Arthur Davidson [Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward VII] reporting on the problems revealed during the inspection of army garrisons in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements [Singapore and parts of Malaysia], Canton [China], Johore [Malaysia] and Burma [later Myanmar]. Manuscript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/30/28.

Letter from Sir James Wolfe Murray (28 Wilton Crescent, [London]) to WSC on the Headquarters staff at the War Office.

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 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.

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.

Letter from Sir Douglas French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres (War Office) expressing regret that he will no longer be working with WSC "in that happy union of the Army and Navy which you have done so much to bring about.".

Message [for a recruiting rally in Acton] by WSC calling for an army of at least a million men to be sent to Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres].

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.