Letter from Ernest Pretyman [former Secretary to the Admiralty], (Orwell Park, Ipswich [Suffolk]) to WSC, on the retirement of Colonel Simeon Exham, Superintending Engineer in charge of Rosyth [Fife, Scotland] [and Portsmouth, Hampshire] Dockyards, stating that he is a man of exceptional ability and that it would be madness for the Admiralty to "part with him at this juncture".