Letter from [Violet Pearman], PS to WSC to Seymour de Lotbiniere, BBC, confirming that WSC would be very pleased to deliver the ninth talk in the India series on 29 Jan, and that he would not require a fee [carbon].

Letter from Seymour de Lotbiniere, BBC, Broadcasting House, London to WSC, on arrangements for his talk in series on India, enclosing formal contract.

Letter from Marshall Davis Hogan (Boonton, New Jersey and Dover, New Jersey [United States]) to WSC in which he says he enjoyed and appreciated WSC's broadcast to the United States and hopes WSC will be able to "awaken our peoples to arm themselves against brute force." Signed manuscript.

Letter from Oswald Veblen (58 Battle Road, Princeton, New Jersey [United States]) to WSC in response to WSC's broadcast to the United States. He says that he agrees that "decent people everywhere should unite" against [Nazi Germany] but feels that many Americans do not have faith in the present British government because they have not opposed fascism and the outrages in Manchuria [part of China], Ethiopia, Spain and Czechoslovakia [later Czech Republic and Slovakia]. Signed manuscript.

Letter from W D Anthony (Registrar, Potomac State School of West Virginia University, United States) to WSC thanking him for his broadcast to the United States; wishing that Britain and France had acted to prevent Hitler acquiring "such formidable power"; commenting on the failure of President Woodrow Wilson's policy of a "peace without victory" [at Versailles]; and expressing good wishes for WSC. Signed typescript.

Letter from G D Kirkland (683 West Monroe Street, Jacksonville, Florida [United States]) to WSC in response to his broadcast to the United States. She says that she considers WSC "guiltless" for Great Britain's failure to pay its debts and for [the Duke of Windsor earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] "being driven out as an exile for preferring an American wife [Wallis Simpson]" and that many Americans feel that WSC belongs with them. Signed typescript.

Letter from John Hemingway [United States] enclosing a press cutting (see CHAR 2/609A/2a) on anti-British sentiment in the United States and the need for Britain to pay her debts and the low opinion of the Churchills held by those who have read Thackery. Signed typescript. Includes a cutting from an American newspaper of an article by George Rothwell Brown on resentment at WSC's broadcast to the United States.

Letter from George E Bailey (New York [United States]) to WSC in response to WSC's broadcast to the United States. He says that he would not like the US to play a part in another European war, since Americans are still paying taxes to make up for unpaid loans, and feels that Great Britain should have prevented the German occupation of the Rhineland to prevent the Dictator [Adolf Hitler] becoming so powerful. Signed manuscript.

Letter from J Peckell Nathan (416 N Eighth Street) to WSC expressing approval for his "masterful, courageous" broadcast to the United States. Signed typescript.

Letter from Benjamin H Kizer (Old National Bank Building, Spokane, Washington [United States]) to WSC expressing approval for his broadcast to the United States and commenting that WSC's phrase "recuperative power of the democracies" reminds him of a phrase used by Benjamin Franklin. Signed typescript.

Letter from Anthony Bevir [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] to Harold Ellison [National Hospital Queen Square] stating that WSC has already settled the Charities to which the profits of records of broadcast speeches of 8 and 13 May should be given. Signed. Carbon copy.

Letter from Harold Ellison (National Hospital Queen Square, London) to Anthony Bevir [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] asking if WSC would care to nominate the Hospital to receive profits from records of broadcast speeches of 8 and 13 May. Signed.

Note from Kathleen Hill [WSC's Secretary] to Anthony Bevir [Prime Minister's Private Secretary] stating that the Gramophone Company's representative telephoned that morning and agreed with "Five Years as Prime Minister" as a suitable title for the record of the broadcast on 13 May.

Note from WSC to Private Office stating that "This" [referring to letter about Leslie Mitchell of British Movietone News] should be addressed to the new Minister of Information [Geoffrey Lloyd] and signed by WSC. [Typescript].

Note from CSC to WSC reminding him to take some action about the well-known war films commentator, Leslie Mitchell, who has "a very boastful, gloating, trampling manner" and suggesting that WSC might see him for five minutes. [Initialled typescript] With annotation in red ink by ? WSC.

Minute from WSC to Minister of Information [Geoffrey Lloyd] marked "indexed" suggesting that he study some of the commentaries made on the British Movietone by Leslie Mitchell, as WSC has been "disagreeably impressed by his boastful and trampling manner", and asking whether this commentator can be induced to be more moderate in tone.

Memorandum from Geoffrey Lloyd [Minister of Information] to WSC replying to his personal minute [complaining about the tone adopted in commentaries by Leslie Mitchell], stating that he will take this up with the heads of British Movietone News who "are co-operating well at the present time", and expressing hope that they would take notice of a suggestion that their commentaries be toned down. [Initialled typescript] Initialled and dated by WSC in red ink on 21 Jun.

Telegram from WSC to CSC (Moscow [Soviet Union]) marked "Top Secret" suggesting she broadcast on 9 May a message from him "to Marshal Stalin, to the Red Army, and to the Russian people" sending greetings for their "splendid victories" and hope for a peaceful future.

Telegram from CSC [Moscow, Soviet Union] to WSC stating that everyone at the British Embassy has been listening to his VE Day broadcast and that Edouard Herriot [former Premier of France] sends greetings. Carbon copy.

Telegram from 3rd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer, Minister of Economic Warfare, Egypt] to WSC marked "Personal" objecting to the manner in which the debate in the House of Commons on the situation in Greece [18 January] was presented in a BBC broadcast on 20 January. Photocopy.

Telegram from WSC to Harry Hopkins [Special Adviser and Assistant to the President of the United States] marked "Personal and Top Secret" proposing to include the situation in Greece in a world radio broadcast on 17 December; and expressing his concern at the leaking of a telegram from him to General Sir Ronald Scobie [General Officer Commanding Greece] to the United States Press.