Papers relating to ELS's work as Chairman of the Institute and his later position as Chancellor, including material on the Institute's reorganisation and expansion in the late 1940's, its campaign in support of free enterprise and minutes of the council and policy and executive committee.

Manuscript and typescript speech notes on subjects including: Roger Bannister; the success of the Institute of Directors; ELS’s own writing work; the mistake of being bound too closely to France; has France a future?; Winston Churchill, including a review of the final volume of his war memoirs; a review of Major-General Gerald Verney’s history of the Seventh Armoured Division, the 'Desert Rats'; Marshal Philippe Petain and the 1917 mutinies in the French army.