Copy of a letter from WSC to King [George VI] about honours in which he says that he was "honoured and touched" to have been considered for the Order of the Garter but that he feels he should not receive this until he retires. He suggests that [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] and Lord Cranborne [later 5th Lord Salisbury] should be considered for the Garter; discusses honours for distinguished wartime figures and the issue of reviving the Order of St Patrick; he recommends that Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham should be given the Order of the Thistle; and expresses pleasure that the King has accepted his suggestion that David Lloyd George should be offered an Earldom as 'this will spare him at his great age from the toil of a modern election in his consituency, and will preserve him in the councils of the nation'. Unsigned carbon typescript.