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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain suggesting [1st] Lord Lloyd [of Dolobran] for the post of Additional Civil Lord overseeing the Fleet Air Arm and [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] to take over Lloyd's position as Chairman of the British Council. [carbon].

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Letter from [Vice-]Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay to WSC refusing a verbal offer of an appointment and commenting on the Fleet Air Arm.

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Letter from [1st] Lord Vansittart [Chief Diplomatic Adviser to Foreign Secretary] to WSC, enclosing copy of letter to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, containing information from a private source on German air and naval capabilities; with letter of thanks from WSC to Vansittart.

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Papers by Captain C J B H Dresner (late Central India Horse) on aircraft design and proposed attack on Heligoland.

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Minute from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, suggesting that 20 Midshipmen be transferred to the Naval Air Service "we have drowned 50 doing nothing, and this is a splendid education [handwritten, initialled by WSC, annotated "Concur" by Fisher"].

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Minute by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on German use of "asphyxiating shells" asking for details of masks supplied to the fleet, suggesting that something very simple was required which could be made easily and in large quantities, with replied by various Admiralty Departments.

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Minute by Rear-Admiral Morgan Singer, Director of Naval Ordnance to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on supply of respirators to the fleet.

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Minute by Sir Arthur May, Medical Diector-General, Admiralty, on respirators supplied to the Fleet.

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on threatened German Zeppelin raid on London. Stating that there was no defence against an air raid on London except reprisals to be announced beforehand to the German Government, and complaining that the British Government had not taken sufficient steps to warn Germany. Asking to be relieved of his official position as the Admiralty would be responsible for the massacre.

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on superiority of German submarine design, blaming the former Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Charles Briggs, also on coastwise coal traffic and North Sea fishing.

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, on threatened German Zeppelin raid on London, and Fisher's proposal that German prisoners be killed in reprisal, stating that he would take his views to Cabinet , although he could not support them. Also commentng that he hoped that Fisher's threat to resign should not be taken seriously, although he had "made up his mind never to dissuade anyone..from resigning if they wish to do so" [handwritten...

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Minute from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, opposing the forthcoming bombardment of Zebrugge.

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Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on superiority of German submarine design, blaming the former Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Charles Briggs, also on coastwise coal traffic and North Sea fishing [typescript copy].

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Extract from letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on threatened German Zeppelin raid on London. Stating that there was no defence against an air raid on London except reprisals to be announced beforehand to the German Government, and complaining that the British Government had not taken sufficient steps to warn Germany. Asking to be relieved of his official position as the Admiralty would be responsible for the massacre.

Scope and Contents Letter from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, on threatened German Zeppelin raid on London, and Fisher's proposal that German prisoners be killed in reprisal, stating that he would take his views to Cabinet , although he could not support them. Also commentng that he hoped that Fisher's threat to resign should not be taken seriously, although he had "made up his mind never to dissuade anyone..from resigning if they wish to do so" [handwritten...

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Admiralty memorandum - Report on the Present Position as regards Possible Zeppelin Attacks on London by Captain Murray Sueter, head of the Air Department, with covering note by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty [printed, Cabinet Paper].

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Admiralty Air Department memorandum on the Disposition of Aircraft [printed].

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Telegram from the Rear-Admiral Dover to Admiralty, reporting German air raid on Dunkerque, suggesting that ships with anti-aircraft guns be moved there [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Divisional Transports, Dunkirk to Transport Department, Admiralty, , reporting severe air attack [typescript copy].

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Admiralty Chief Censor intercepted message from Feibalman, Amsterdam to Exchange Telegraph Co., report in British air raid on the Belgian coast [typescript copy].

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Telegram from C. in C., The Nore to Admiralty, confirming that he had ordered lights to be extinguished in Chatham and Sheerness Dockyards at 2000 hours,from 26-29 Jan, ue to special warnings of air attack [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Admiralty to Commonwealth Navy Board, on proposal for HMS "Australia" to serve as Flagship, with HMS "New Zealand" in a new battle cruiser squadron [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Admiralty to C. in C., The Nore on possibility of air attack, stating that work should continue at night, without interruption, and that lights should be kept burning until firing began [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC: battle report; mentions Tobruk, Derna, Bardia [Libya], Malta and Benghazi.

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, India and Burma] to WSC on need for more aeroplanes in India and crew for Burma [later Myanmar]; International Air Force based in Burma should be placed under Wavell's control.