Memoranda on subjects including: historical briefing for the British trade delegation to Honolulu [Hawaii, United States], 1927, on trading relations with China; France's request for British help in the case of future German aggression, 1906, the visits to Berlin by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War], in 1906 and 1912; an interview with Haldane, November 1916, about preparations for war in 1911 and his visits to Berlin; an interview with Sir Maurice de Bunsen [former British Ambassador to Austria-Hungary], September 1916, on events preceding the outbreak of war; how prepared for war Britain was; German charges that Britain and France were guilty of violating Belgian neutrality; German offers of peace, c 1917; the Philippines; the literary history of connections between China and Europe.