Correspondents include: H Aubrey Gentry [Director of Cassell and Company Ltd] (30); Charles Eade (10); Daniel Macmillan [Chairman of Macmillan and Comapny Ltd (1); Dr Robert Chapman [Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford] (1); Sir Edward Marsh (10).

Correspondents include: Representatives of the Evening Standard (30) including the editor, R J Thompson, on subjects including the termination of WSC's series of articles for political reasons (2) and WSC's reply; Sir Robert Vansittart on an article on Germany and Austria.Also includes: account statements for the syndication of articles to regional newspapers.

Correspondents include: representatives of the Evening Standard, including Percy Cudlipp, Editor (9) on a series of articles by WSC commemorating the Silver Jubilee.Also includes: copies of the press releases on the articles; a note by Martin Gilbert [c1970's].

Volume of calculations by WSC on his personal finances including details of income earned through his writings.

Introductions by WSC to: a book about the Mahdi (in which he recalls his experiences in the Sudan and at the Battle of Omdurman); "India Insistent" by Sir Harcourt Butler (in which he discusses events in India) and a book about the work of chartered surveyors.

WSC's notes and source material for many of these speeches can be found in files CHAR 9/167-70 and CHAR 9/205-9.

Proofs of photographs of all the subjects in the 1st edition of "Great Contemporaries", with copies of letters from Herbert Asquith [the Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] offering the Presidency of the Board of Trade to WSC (1908) and from "T E S" [T E Shaw, earlier T E Lawrence, or "Lawrence of Arabia"] to WSC on giving him a copy of "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" (1926).

Includes: a letter from Murray Hornibrook, Private Secretary to George Wyndham, correcting WSC on Wyndham and the devolution proposals for Ireland in WSC's article on 1st Lord Balfour; a copy of a letter from Herbert Asquith [the Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC offering him the Presidency of the Board of Trade in 1908; notes on Lord Morley of Blackburn.

Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "The Earl of Rosebery" on 5th Lord Rosebery [earlier Lord Dalmeny]; "The Ex-Kaiser" on Kaiser Wilhelm II; "George Bernard Shaw".

Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Joseph Chamberlain"; "Sir John French" on 1st Lord Ypres, as Commander in Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France 1914-1915; "John Morley" on Lord Morley of Blackburn.

Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Hindenburg" on Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg's role in the First World War; "Boris Savinkov" on his role in the Russian army on the Eastern Front, and fighting against the Bolsheviks; "Marshal Foch" on Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Western Front; "Herbert Henry Asquith" on 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith.

Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Lawrence of Arabia" on T E Lawrence after the First World War, and "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"; "'F E' First Earl of Birkenhead" on F E Smith; "Marshal Foch" on Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch on the Western Front.

Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Leon Trotsky, alias Bronstein"; " Alfonso XIII" on Alfonso XIII of Spain; "Douglas Haig" on 1st Lord Haig.

Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Arthur James Balfour" on 1st Lord Balfour's career, including the Free Trade issue in 1903; "Hitler and his Choice" on German rearmament since the First World War and Hitler since 1935; "George Nathaniel Curzon" on 1st Lord Curzon.Also includes: a letter from 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley] correcting details about himself in the Balfour article.

Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Philip Snowden" on 1st Lord Snowden; "Clemenceau" on Georges Clemenceau; "King George V" on the King's reign, including the Parliament Act of 1910 and the King's role in the First World War.

Annotated proofs of the following articles by WSC: "Lord Fisher and his Biographer" on Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon's appointment to and removal from the Dover Patrol (1915-1917) and Bacon's biography of 1st Lord Fisher, and also on Fisher's part as 1st Sea Lord and during the Dardanelles Campaign; "Charles Stewart Parnell" on Parnell, Home Rule for Ireland and Kitty O'Shea; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "Roosevelt From Afar" on Franklin Roosevelt's economic and labour reforms.

Includes telegrams from William Randolph Hearst and correspondence with editorial staff of Hearst newspapers.Subjects for articles include: trials in the Soviet Union; economic affairs; Spain; the League of Nations; the Rhineland; Palestine; serialisation rights to WSC's "The Eastern Front".Also includes: annotated copy of printed supplement to the Week-End Review entitled "A National Plan for Great Britain", 14 Feb 1931.