Indexed collection of McKenna's correspondence as First Lord of the Admiralty during the Election, with correspondents (mainly asking for naval information to assist their election campaigns) including: [William] Wedgwood Benn [later 1st Lord Stansgate]; Sir Owen Philipps [MP for Pembroke and Haverfordwest, later 1st Lord Kylsant] asking for information on the Pembroke dockyard (2); Sir Samuel Evans on the Pembroke dockyard (3); Arthur Crosfield (3); Charles Mallet [Liberal candidate for Plymouth], asking if the Government would support the Devonport dockyard; Sir John Benn [MP for Devonport] on giving ships' crews and dockyardsmen time to vote (2); Edwin Montagu on combating allegations that the Navy had depleted its stores and did not have enough men; Vincent Baddeley [Private Secretary to McKenna] on subjects including the shortage of docks capable of taking dreadnoughts (6); [Allen] Clement Edwards (2); Sir Gerald Hohler on giving naval crews time to vote; Cecil Grenfell on spending in the dockyards; Sir Francis Blake; Ernest Lamb [later 1st Lord Rochester] on giving the men of Chatham dockyard a half-day to vote; Herbert Samuel; the Master of Elibank on the reduction of naval estimates from those of the previous Government; Charles Geake, Secretary Liberal Publication Department, on combating allegations by the 9th Duke of Marlborough that McKenna had admitted that the working classes would pay most of the Government's new taxes; Nicholas Grattan-Doyle on Marlborough's allegation; Edward Tebbutt, Editor of the North Mail, on the allegation (2).

Also includes: annotated draft of McKenna's election address; figures of the comparative strengths of the British and German navies; figures for employment and wages in the naval dockyards; notes on shortcomings and deficiencies in the Navy; memorandum on granite used in Admiralty works; list of MPs who voted against McKenna's 1908 naval estimates, with their election results.