Extracts from Admiralty papers relating to a large order placed with the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of the United States. Typescript copies. Sent with CHAR 2/93/2-3.

Summary of papers [compiled in Mar 1917] relating to the placing by the Admiralty of a large order with the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of the United States. Sent with CHAR 2/93/10.

Evidence given by WSC to the Air Department Committee inquiring into the placing of Admiralty orders with the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of the United States. Sent with CHAR 2/93/15.

Letter from Cyril Longhurst (Offices of the War Cabinet) to WSC enclosing a minute of the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on the allotment and location of seaplane and aeroplane stations [see CHAR 2/90/5] and referring to the Calais conferences. Signed and annotated typescript.

Minute of the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on the allotment and location of seaplane and aeroplane stations reporting the comments of the chairman [WSC] on the usefulness of torpedo-carrying aircraft. Sent with CHAR 2/90/4.

Letter from R Borlase Matthews (106 Earl's Court Road, Kensington, [London]) to WSC criticising the Air Board's decision not to supply technical information to the United States. Signed typescript.

Minute by WSC stating that the Dardanelles operations could easily develop into a great siege and calling for the following measures: the provision of siege artillery and well-equipped semi-permanent landing stages; protection against submarines; the fitting of the bombarding fleet with mine protection; the provision of seventy aircraft. Printed copy.

Letter from WSC to Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] on the need for aircraft and 12-inch monitors in the Dardanelles. Printed copy.

Letter from WSC (Ministry of Munitions) to [David Lloyd George] expressing the desire to be appointed to the Admiralty rather than the War Office and arguing that the development of aircraft will best be undertaken by the Admiralty. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Arthur Duckham on the award of war honours to aircraft manufacturers. Typescript copy.

Letter from Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (62 Pall Mall, London) to WSC praising his work to promote air power and advocating a separate ministry for air. Invites WSC to Beaulieu [Hampshire] and points out that he and WSC are related by marriage.

Letter from J A Whitehead (The Rosary, Henley-on-Thames, [Berkshire]) claiming that he is destitute because the Government owe him nearly half a million pounds for aircraft manufactured by him during the war. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/121/3-4.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Hugh Trenchard [later 1st Lord Trenchard] offering to arrange a meeting between him and Professor F A Lindemann [later Lord Cherwell] to discuss improvements in the accuracy of bombing. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Sir Hugh Trenchard (Air Ministry) to WSC asking whether he knows anyone he could talk to about improvements to bomb sights. Typescript copy.

Letter from C L Bullock (Air Ministry] to WSC reminding him, with reference to his wish to fly from Biggin Hill [Kent] to Tidworth [Hampshire] next week, that Monday is a Bank Holiday when the Air Ministry and RAF stations are closed.

Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (War Office) to WSC reporting that he is going to Aldershot [Hampshire] to examine the airship construction department there, and that he does not think the Government can usefully intervene in the deveopment of [Louis Brennan's] monorail system. States that he is ready to take up WSC's plan of a police territorial brigade.

Letter from ? Wright (Head Quarters, Ottoman Army, Dehibat [Tunisia] via Nallent, Tripoli, [Libya]) to WSC describing: the excellence and toughness of Arab and Turkish soldiers; the great value of aircraft for reconnaisance; the massacre committed by the Italians.

Letter from Rear-Admiral Arthur Limpus (HM Dockyard, Malta) to WSC commending the article in the Observer of 30 May on "phases of the sea campaign" [praising WSC] and advising him to give up flying because "the Air service no longer needs the impulse you gave it.".

Extract from a book [by James Johnston, retired member of the Indian Civil Service] criticising the apparent intention to rely on the RAF rather than the Army to maintain internal order in India. Sent with CHAR 2/193/128-129.

Letter from "Charley" [7th Lord Londonderry] (Londonderry House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC thanking him for his "very helpful speech" [on the air estimates].

Letter from [WSC] to 7th Lord Londonderry reporting that Admiral Sir Reginald Custance agrees with him on the tactical methods of air defence, praising Sir Philip Sassoon's speech [on the air estimates] and attacking Londonderry's speech on India as damaging to the Conservative Party. Carbon typescript copy.

Telegram from Vice-Admiral John De Robeck, Dardanelles, to Admiralty, reporting unsuccessful German air attack on HMS "Ark Royal" [typescript copy].