Letters to LSA from correspondents including: General Sir Henry Wilson [Assistant Chief of General Staff, Expeditionary Forces in France] on subjects including his opposition to the Dardanelles Campaign, the Balkans, chances of Bulgaria joining the war, the lack of political leadership, and the failure to break the German line on the Western Front (13); [Amelius] Mark Lockwood [earlier Mark Wood]; George Lloyd, describing events at the Dardanelles, and on action to be taken if Bulgaria entered the war; L J Maxse, [Editor] of the National Review on bringing in Dominion representatives to Government, the risks of fighting in the East and the urgency of evacuating the Dardanelles (3); Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] on subjects including her marriage, National Service and possible leaders to replace Herbert Asquith [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] (7); [?] Captain William Maxwell on the progress of the war in the Balkans; 1st Lord Northcliffe [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Alfred Harmsworth] asking LSA to write an explanation of National Service for the Mail as part of an education campaign (2); Frederick Oliver on speeches by LSA, government negotiations with labouring classes, the importance of the textile industry, and criticism of LSA's incompatible jobs in the Army, War Office and politics (12); Christabel Pankhurst on the policy of Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] in deserting Serbia, demanding his resignation and a new effective opposition to the Government; Sir Gilbert Parker on the need for a restructured Coalition Government with new men; George Pearce [Australian Minister for Defence] explaining the difficulty in finding officers to go with the troops Australia was sending as reinforcements; George Prothero [Editor of the Quarterly Review] asking LSA to write an article on the political situation and need for new leadership, disagreeing with the stress on Sir Edward Carson and 1st Lord Milner by LSA's draft article, and passing on praise for the finished piece (4); Geoffrey Robinson [Editor of the Times, later Geoffrey Dawson] on subjects including congratulating LSA on getting to France, his remarks on the German raid against Scarborough [Yorkshire], his own wish to see a command in France and his view of Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece] (4); General Sir Henry Rawlinson [commander, 4th Corps] on LSA joining his staff, and the state of his forces, the Balkans, LSA's suggestion that he might write a book on the 7th Division, getting a bill on conscription through Parliament, cutting pay for the troops and Rawlinson's promotion to commander of the 4th Army (4); Charles A'Court-Repington on the landings at the [?] Dardanelles, particularly the conflict between Headquarters and the Cabinet over whether to evacuate or push on; Sir William Robertson [Director of Military Training, War Office] on the need for more men; 2nd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer] on the Balkans and the line taken by the United States (2); Lieutenant-Colonel Martin Archer-Shee on support for LSA's views on conscription, and the weakness of the Government; Wilfrid Short [Private Secretary to Arthur Balfour]; G P Tallboy, War Office, on subjects including economising on war spending, recruitment figures, numbers of rifles issued, the new Ministry of Munitions, Geoffrey Amery as a prisoner of war, the Amery family's financial affairs, and the change in Government (10); Alex Thompson [acting editor of the Clarion]; Christopher Thomson [Military Attaché and Chief of Military Commission, Romania] on Romanian smuggling of supplies to Constantinople [later Istanbul, Turkey]; Admiral Ernest Troubridge [Head of the British Naval Mission to Serbia]; Charles Vince, Secretary of the Birmingham Liberal Unionist Association (2).

Also includes: copy of a letter from David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, on forming a new government; letter from Florence Amery to Lord Northcliffe on LSA's return from the Balkans; draft letter from LSA to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [written on reverse of a letter from Charles Vince], describing an action fought by General Sir Henry Rawlinson.