Pamphlet entitled "The Press in Wartime" outlining the conflicts between the press and secrecy in wartime, and stressing the need for regulations restricting the freedom of the press. Printed. Covering letter at CHAR 12/2/45.

Letter from E P Stevenson (15 Old Cavendish Street, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his campaign [in North-West Manchester] and on his attack on the Harmsworth Press. Denounces the methods of the Daily Mail.

Letter from Arthur Lawrence, director of the Globe Press (35 Surrey Street, Strand, [London]) to WSC inviting him to join the committee of a planned club for enhancing "the social amenities between English and Americans." Expresses disappointment at WSC's defeat in the [North-West Manchester] by-election and endorses his remarks during the campaign about certain newspapers. Signed typescript. Annotated: "politely declined". Illustration of the Globe Press premises in letter-head.

Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (The Daily Mail) to WSC advising him to meet Canadian journalists, especially Sir Hugh Graham of the Montreal Star.

Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (Carlton Hotel, Frankfurt-am-Main, [Germany]) to WSC on newspaper reporting of political speeches.

Letter from G Wallace Carter, general secretary of the Free Trade Union (8 Victoria Street, Westminster, London) to WSC (Home Office) describing the inadequate British news service in Canadian newspapers and suggesting that a summary of each day's parliamentary debates be cabled to all the Dominions free of charge. Signed typescript. Annotated with instruction by WSC to show the letter to Colonel [John Seely, late Lord Mottistone].

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] asking for the Times to report his speeches at Dundee [Angus, Scotland] in October as these are the only ones he is giving during the parliamentary recess. Praises the line taken by the Times and the Daily Mail [over the Agadir crisis in Morocco.] Typescript. Preceded by instruction to Edward Marsh to write the letter out.

Letter from Herbert Samuel (Office of Postmaster General) to WSC enclosing enclosing an extract from an official minute on the reporting by telephone of WSC's speech in Belfast [Ulster] [see CHAR 2/59/42-44]. Signed typescript.

Letter from Lord Northcliffe (The Times) to WSC commenting on the reporting of the Marconi scandal and criticising the absence of [Lord Murray of Elibank, earlier Alexander Murray, the Master of Elibank]. Mentions the arrangements for his trip in a submarine. Initialled typescript.

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC asking whether WSC can supply definite information which would enable Garvin to assure William Astor [later Lord Astor] that his newspapers are on sound ground in taking a moderate line [?on Home Rule].

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Northcliffe [later Sir Alfred Harmsworth] attacking the "panic-stricken stuff" written by the war correspondent of the "Times" and sending paraphrases of the telegrams being received by the Government [not present]. Typescript copy.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Charles a Court Repington on: arrangements for providing information about the war to the press; the fall of Antwerp [Belgium]; the prospect of a hard struggle on the Western Front. Copy in WSC's hand.

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on the attitude of Waldorf Astor [later 2nd Lord Astor of Hever Castle] and 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] to the advocacy of a "vigorous, broad, independent national policy" in the "Observer".

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on the improved prospects of ?[William] Waldorf Astor [later 1st Lord Astor of Hever Castle] retaining ownership of the "Observer".

Letter from J L Garvin (9 Greville Place, [London]) to WSC on: the wish of "my young officer" [his son] to meet WSC and get his autograph; the way in which Andrew Bonar Law and "the whole frondeur-press have swung round to our line"; the possibility of 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth] or Waldorf Astor [later 2nd Lord Astor of Hever Castle] acquiring the "Observer".

Cutting from the Daily Mail: editorial on the increased circulation of the Daily Mail despite attacks on its reports of the gravity of the war situation by "Hide-the-Truth" newspapers.

Letter from Lord Wimborne [2nd baron, later 1st viscount] [earlier Ivor Guest and Lord Ashby St Ledgers] (Wimborne House, Arlington Street, [London]) to WSC on: the stalemate in the war; the task of reconstruction after it is over; the increasing prominence of women and the imminent disappearance of the press.

Letter from WSC to Lord Haldane [earlier Richard Haldane] hoping that the press campaign against Haldane will be ineffective. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from WSC to Lord Kitchener regretting the attacks in the press on Kitchener, expressing confidence that the Dardanelles campaign "will come out all right" and noting that Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] "went mad".

Letter from Lord Kitchener (War Office) to WSC stating that the attempts in the press to create bad feeling between himself and Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres] will fail and mentioning the "cheerful" telegrams received from the Dardanelles.

Letter from Sarah, Lady Wilson (Brighton, [Sussex]) to WSC urging him to stay at the Admiralty and condemning the press attacks on the conduct of the war as encouraging to the Germans.

Letter from E M Lafone (10 Embankment Gardens, Chelsea, [London]) to WSC expressing regret at his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty and urging him to work for the regulation of the press.