Letter from WSC to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the naval building programme, expressing his loyalty to Asquith, and his "conviction of your superior judgement and superior record on naval matters", and stating that he would go to all possible lengths to prevent disagreement in the Cabinet, but that "no reduction or postponement beyond the year of the four ships is possible to me". [Manuscript copy in letter book].