Letter from Leslie Rowan [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] informing him that Richard Casey [Minister of State for the Middle East] is unwell and that he hopes he will excuse him from attending cabinet. He is not expected to be away for very long Initialled. Annotated, WSC asks if he has a good doctor and Rowan replies that he has.

Letter from John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] to WSC informing him that Sir Stafford Cripps [Minister of Aircraft Production] is unwell again today and will not be able to attend cabinet and that he has learnt from his private office that he is run down and should be encouraged to take a holiday Initialled.

Letter from WSC to Sir Stafford Cripps [Minister of Aircraft Production] advising him to take a week's holiday on account of his recent ill-health Signed.

Letter from Sir Stafford Cripps (Ministry of Aircraft Production, Millbank, London) [Minister of Aircraft Production] to WSC informing him that he is following his doctor's advice and taking two weeks' holiday as the doctor had said "a fortnight at once or two months later on!!" and was confident that the department would cope in his absence Signed manuscript.

Note from John Martin [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to WSC informing him that Sir Richard Hopkins [Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service] has been ordered by the doctor to take 3 weeks' rest and that Sir Alan Barlow [Joint Second Secretary, Treasury] will be taking over his position whilst he is away and enclosing a draft letter to Hopkins [see CHAR 20/96B/150] for him to consider Initialled.

Letter from WSC to Tom Williams [Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries] urging him to take a break for three months on account of his continued ill health Signed.

Letter from WSC to Sir Stafford Cripps [Minister of Aircraft Production] to urge him to take a week's holiday due to illhealth Signed.

Letter from WSC to [1st] Lord Horder [earlier Thomas Jeeves] thanking him for informing him about the health of Richard Casey [Minister of State in the Middle East] and agreeing that he should be encouraged to take a break Signed.

Copy of a letter from WSC marked "personal" to Neville Chamberlain on Chamberlain's offer to resign, expressing the wish that Chamberlain will remain in post; agreeing with him about bombardment and sympathising over his illness, but urging him to remain in his post. Typescript marked "Put in personal box.".

Letter from "Crinks" [Harcourt Johnstone] to WSC expressing concern that Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] is working too hard and should be made to take a rest.

Letter from WSC to Harcourt Johnstone thanking him for his letter and advising him that Brendan Bracken [Minister of Information] is awaiting medical advice from Sir Charles Wilson [President, Royal College of Physicians, later 1st Lord Moran].

Letter from WSC to Commander Sir Charles Craven accepting his resignation as Controller- General of the Ministry of Aircraft Production.

Letter from WSC to A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, advising him to take a rest.

Letter from WSC to Sir Dennis Herbert [Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Speaker, later 1st Lord Hemingford] welcoming him back to work after an illness.

Letter from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production] to WSC tendering his resignation on grounds of ill health.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] refusing to accept his resignation. [Carbon].

Note from Brendan Bracken [Parliamentary Private Secretary to WSC] to WSC on Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of Air Staff] whom his colleagues believe to be overworking. [Manuscript].

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.

Note from "B" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken, Minister of Supply] to WSC resigning from the Defence Committee on the grounds of "continuing and violent attacks of asthma". [manuscript, annotated by WSC].

Letter from WSC (10 Downing Street) to "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken, Minister of Supply] congratulating him on his mission to Moscow [Soviet Union]; chastising him for making public his desire to retire; reassuring him that his colleagues are not conspiring against him and advising him not to get so agitated. [manuscript copy in Prime Minister's Private Secretary John Peck's hand].

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Maugham regretting to hear of his resignation due to ill-health from the office of Lord of Appeal of the Ordinary.

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC assuring him that rumours of ill-health about President Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins [Personal Assistant and Aide to President of the United States] are greatly exaggerated.

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, reporting that he had ordered Sir Arthur May, Director-General of the Medical Depatrment to send the best specialist in London to the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, to see Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, who had been maltreated for Piles and had an abcess, and was suffering from pain and fatigue.