Estimate from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), for work at Chartwell, fitting a new lavatory basin in the Work Room on the top floor, and fitting a partition between WSC's room and the Maid's Room, for 24l 13s and painting Horatia Seymour's cottage, for 4 pounds.

Note from Mary Shearburn [Secretary to WSC, later Mary Thompson] to WSC, on a leak in the roof at Chartwell [Kent] which could be repaired with sail cloth and tar, stating that to obtain the sail cloth it was necessary to obtain a Priority Order from the Ministry of Supply [annotated by WSC with a note to the Private Office, asking them to arrange this "if it is not improper"].

Letter from Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to the Telephone Manager, Tunbridge Wells Area [Kent], requesting an extension from the Westerham 93 switchboard to the office at Chartwell, and confirming that the extension from Westerham 81 in the Cottage bedroom [at Chartwell] was to be left as at present to maintain communication with the Manor Office. [Carbon].

Letter from Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to the Telephone Manager, Tunbridge Wells Area [Kent], asking if it would be possible to move the Westerham 93 switchboard from the Cottage [at Chartwell] to Chartwell Manor, where it could be connected when WSC re-occupied the house in 2-3 months time, also asking if it would be possible to install separate telephones in the Cottage, and Stable Cottage. [Carbon].

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to Senator William Borah, regretting the newspaper coverage of his attempt to arrange for Borah and WSC to debate the question of recognition of the Soviet Union. [Copy].

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, expressing pleasure that he was recovering following a road accident, giving details of his revised lecture tour of the United States.

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], (Vanderbilt Hotel, New York) to WSC, (Nassau, Bahamas), on arrangements for his interrupted lecture tour of the United States.

Letter from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], on the revised itinerary for his interrupted lecture tour of the United States. [Carbon].

Telegram from Dr Otto Pickhardt to CSC (Nassau, Bahamas), on WSC's health following a road accident in New York [United States], advising postponement of his lecture tour of the United States until 28 January.

Letter from Louis Alber, [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] (Vanderbilt Hotel, New York), to WSC, (Nassau, Bahamas), on a revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States, asking if he would be willing to prepare a new lecture on the Soviet Union, as this subject had been requested by the New York Town Hall, and he felt that a number of other cities would be interested.

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], (Vanderbilt Hotel, New York) to WSC, on the revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States.

Letter from Louis Alber to WSC, on his appointment as head of the Speakers Division of the United States National Recovery Administration, also on the success of WSC's lecture tour of the United States in 1931, commenting that his influence, operated through Bernard Baruch, was to be seen in some phases of the recovery programme, asking if he would be interested in making another lecture tour when conditions were better.

Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on a revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States.

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] (Carlton Hotel, Washington) to WSC, on a revised itinerary for his lecture tour of the United States.

Telegram from CSC to Dr Otto Pickhardt (Lenox Hill Hospital, New York), stating that WSC was not fit enough to resume his lecture tour of the United States, but that much pressure was being put on him to resume on 14 January, asking Pickhardt to see Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated]. [Copy].

Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, confirming that WSC's lecture tour of the United States would resume on 28 January in Brooklyn, and asking for authorisation to negotiate a debate in Washington with Senator William Borah.

Telegram from CSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that WSC was not fit enough to resume his lecture tour of the United States, and that if he were forced to do so, his health might be permanently impaired. [Copy].

Telegram from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to WSC, on the resumption of his lecture tour of the United States, urging him to return as first planned to fulfil his New York engagements, stating that they would not tolerate any risk to his health.

Telegram from Dr Otto Pickhardt to WSC, heartily endorsing a postponement of the resumption of his lecture tour of the United States until February, reminding him that mental as well as physical rest was imperative.

Telegram from Louis Levy [WSC's attorney] to WSC, on the revised itinerary for WSC's lecture tour of the United States.

Telegram from WSC to Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated], stating that although his health was improving, he would not be able to resume his lecture tour of the United States on 14 January, proposing resumption on 1 February, continuing until 15 March. [Carbon].