Letter from [WSC] to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] enclosing a note of his conversation with Count Paul von Wolff-Metternich [see CHAR 2/39/86-92] and asking whether he should take this line when he visits Germany. States that he does not intend to make a special effort to discuss politics whilst there. Typescript copy.

Letter from Otto Ernst Niemeyer (Treasury) to Edward Marsh enclosing and commenting on notes on taxes levied by the Empire and the Federal States in Germany [see CHAR 2/42/11-12].

Notes by Otto Ernst Niemeyer on taxes levied by the Empire and the Federal States in Germany. Sent with CHAR 2/42/10.

Part of a memorandum on duties on manufactured imports in France and Germany. Typescript.

"Le rapprochement Franco-Allemand condition de la paix du monde": proof sheets of a speech of 28 April 1909 by M D'Estournelles de Constant, member of the French Senate, in the Upper House in Berlin [Germany]. Addressed to WSC in D'Estournelles de Constant's hand, 7 May 1909 15 sheets.

Letter from Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], Inspector General of the Forces (Horse Guards, Whitehall, [London]), to WSC on secret communications from WSC which throw light on German [military] methods and aims.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Sir Ernest Cassel doubting the usefulness of his (WSC) joining the King [George V] on a visit to Germany and regretting the poor relations between Britain and that country resulting from the German naval build-up. Draft in WSC's hand.

Letter from John Churchill (10 Talbot Square, Hyde Park, [London]) to WSC reporting that the new German government will proceed with its increased armaments programme but will find it difficult to introduce new taxes. Reports that the trading in the City [of London] is very bad.

Letter from Sir Ernest Cassel (Brook House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC on the awaited reply to the British offer to the German government of negotiations on the question of naval expenditure.

Letter from Sir Ernest Cassel (Hotel Adlon, Berlin, [Germany]) to WSC on the success of Lord Haldane's [earlier Richard Haldane] mission to Berlin and of WSC's trip to Belfast [Ulster, Ireland].

Letter from Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] (4 Carlton Gardens, Pall Mall, [London]) to WSC deploring the fact that, in view of Germany's apparent intention of restoring the empire of Charlemagne in a modern form, it should be possible to talk of war as inevitable "when there is no quarrel, and nothing to fight over!".

Letter from Francis Grenfell (Esplanade Hotel, Berlin, [Germany]) to WSC congratulating him on his speech on the navy estimates and the German Navy Law and describing reaction to it in Germany. Encloses a copy of the Berliner Zeitung reporting the speech [see CHAR 2/57/8] and reports on the keenness in Germany for war with France.

Edition of the Berliner Zeitung [Germany] reporting WSC's speech on the navy estimates and the German Navy Law. Sent with CHAR 2/57/7.

Letter from Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] (4 Carlton Gardens, Pall Mall, [London]) to WSC returning the papers WSC sent him and reporting the news from Major O'Gorman that the Germans are making more progress with dirigibles than Reginald McKenna supposed.

Letter from Captain Hugh Watson (Naval and Military Club) to WSC approving the lead WSC is taking on Germany.

Note by ? [Hotel Ritz, Paseo del Prado, Madrid, [Spain] expressing the wish to meet WSC and perhaps other leading men in Kiel [Germany] and referring to Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's desire to reach a workable compromise with Britain over the naval question.

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC on the reaction in Britain, Germany and France to WSC to WSC's speech on naval expenditure.

Letter from ? (Brook House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC stating that he does not think that Arthur Grenfell will be helped by seeing him and considering the prospects for an understanding with Germany.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Arthur Ponsonby agreeing that Britain should remain neutral as long as her own interests or treaty obligations are not involved but adding that a German attack on France or Belgium would change the current position. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh. A typescript copy at CHAR 2/64/6.

Cutting from the Times reporting German statements about the German war economy, the dismissal of Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], British naval construction, negotiations on the economic relations between Germany and Austria-Hungary, and German casualty figures.