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.

Subjects include: the achievements of T E Lawrence; praise of WSC's article in the News of the World on Lawrence's death; comparisons between WSC and Lawrence; the "National League" against the British Mandatory Government in Palestine; Lawrence's "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".

Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from WSC's secretaries Elizabeth Gilliatt, Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], and Gillian Maturin.

Correspondents include: representatives of London Film Productions, including Alexander Korda, Managing Director (2) on a film on the reign of George V to commemorate the Silver Jubilee and a film on the history of aviation; representatives of Nicholl, Manisty and Company, solicitors (17).Also includes: a general scheme for "King George V"; an annotated copy of the contract between London Film Productions and WSC for "King George V".