Letter from WSC to Sir Charles Craven [former Controller- General of the Ministry of Aircraft Production] advising that Air Chief Marshal Sir Wilfrid Freeman [Chief Executive, Ministry of Aircraft Production] will remain as Deputy to the Chief of Air Staff [Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal] as they work well together.

Letter from WSC to Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding advising that his memorandum on the Battle of Britain has been circulated to the Air Ministry and the United States military, on fighter strategy and development of new fighter aircraft.

Letter from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] with major points of joint strategy: expansion of shipping convoys against U-boat attack; increase of food imports in 1943; more American troops to Britain; increasing bombing, night bombing and using aircraft against U-boats.

Letter from WSC to David Robertson explaining that an Anti-U-boat Warfare Committee is considering the need for specialist aircraft to protect shipping.

Letter from WSC to Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of Air Staff] advising against removing Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, RAF, Middle East] from the Middle East or Air Marshal Sir [William] Sholto Douglas [Air Officer Commanding- in-Chief, Fighter Command] from Fighter Command; suggests Air Vice-Marshal Douglas Evill as Vice-Chief of Air Staff.

Correspondence between Henry Nimmo, Chief Engineering Inspector, Electricity Commission, John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC], Ronald Melville [Private Secretary to Secretary of State for Air], [?] Reginald Maudling [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air] and WSC on Nimmo's suggestion that German electricity generating stations would be prime targets for bombers.

Letter and report from Peregrine Churchill to WSC on a meeting with Sir Stafford Cripps [Minister of Aircraft Production] about the photographic projection of engineering designs direct onto templates for aircraft construction; with acknowledgement by John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC].

Letter from Commander Sir Walter Windham to WSC repeating his request of May 1940 begging to be allowed to travel to Canada and the United States to conduct a press campaign to gain more aeroplanes for the war effort; has conducted similar "rousing" missions in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. [typescript].

Letter from [Valentine] Lawford (Foreign Office) to [Edith] Watson [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] suggesting that she draw the matter to the attention of [1st] Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken, Minister of Aircraft Production], otherwise send a "soothing reply" to Sir Walter Windham emphasising the difficulty of raising awareness in America "without infringing U.S. regulations and bringing discredit and suspicion on their cause and their Government".

Letter from Sir Walter Windham to WSC offering his services to go to the United States and Canada to conduct a press campaign to gain more aeroplanes for the war effort; with [carbon of] a reply from "A B" [Anthony Bevir, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] that the letter will be forwarded to the Secretary of State for Air [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso].

Letter from "E M W" [Edith Watson, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to [Frank] Wood [Assistant Principal] (Air Ministry) forwarding a letter from Sir Walter Windham [not included in file] enclosing a device to damage aeroplanes on take-off. [carbon; with registry slip].