Copy of a letter from John Colville [pilot, RAFVR, former Private Secretary to WSC] to CSC with impressions of South Africa and criticisms of the Empire Air Training Scheme; with correspondence between WSC, Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] and 1st Lord Cherwell [Personal Assistant to WSC, earlier F A Lindemann] enquiring about the efficiency of the scheme, and Colville's progress.

Correspondence on John Colville [former Private Secretary to WSC] being found unfit for a pilot's commission; includes letters between John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC], WSC, Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] and Ronald Melville [Private Secretary to Sinclair] on the inconvenience to WSC of releasing Colville, his progress in training, and the limitations of training in South Africa.

Memorandum [submitted by Sir Edward Bridges, Secretary to the Cabinet] examining proposition by the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Stafford Cripps] for co-operation between the Services through an overall commander. [See CHAR 20/56B/129-134 for Cripps's proposition].

Telegram from Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to the President of the United States] to WSC: opposes the idea of a Civil Air Transport Adjustment Board and gives reasons; comments on the production of transport planes for military purposes.

Letters from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC tendering his resignation; with WSC's reply refusing to accept his resignation. [Carbon].

Letter from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC on air policy, advising dispersal of production. [Copy].

Personal Minute M 427 from WSC to Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of Air Staff] asking him to take a few days rest as so much depends on him and overworking will not help [copy]; with reply from Portal thanking him for his concern.

Letter from Group Captain Charles Anderson to WSC enclosing a detailed paper on the training of RAF pilots, and a suggested system to reduce costs.

Summary of night-time operations for RAF Station at Waddington [Yorkshire], naming officers involved. [Typescript].

Report of damage caused by bombing raid from RAF Waddington [Yorkshire] on Berlin [Germany].

Letter from Group Captain Charles Anderson to WSC on bombing raid on Berlin [Germany].

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

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 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.

Letter from Captain Murray Sueter to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Minister of Munitions, asking for more aircraft to be sent for the operations of the Royal Naval Air Service in the Adriatic, suggesting that this matter be discussed with Rear-Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss [later Lord Wester Wemyss], who is in London, and describing how badly he (Sueter) was treated for being loyal to WSC and the RNAS.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to WSC offering his services as "a pusher and organiser" and asserting that "the air will win the war now" as a result of Arthur Balfour's [later Lord Balfour] apathy with the Navy. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/92/20.

Letter from Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] (36 Berkeley Square) to WSC enclosing [a Westminster Gazette article on aerial defence] and wishing WSC would replace Lord Cowdray [at the Air Board]. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/92/26.

Newspaper cuttings on: on the overriding necessity of defeating Germany; the advantages of the new oil-driven battleships; the need for a more co-ordinated system of defence against German air raids.