Letter from John Montagu [later 2nd Lord Montagu] (17 Shaftesbury Avenue, London) to WSC on the prosperity of the British car industry and Montagu's unsuccessful attempt to buy the Standard before C Arthur Pearson. Signed typescript.

Letter from Louis Alber [President, Affiliated Lecture and Concert Association Incorporated] to Senator William Borah, regretting the newspaper coverage of his attempt to arrange for Borah and WSC to debate the question of recognition of the Soviet Union. [Copy].

Letter from Herbert Vivian (Hotel de Luxembourg, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, [France]) to WSC on: "The Curiosity of Literature", "The River War", and the best way of engaging in published controversy with Colonel [?Ivor] Maxse; Vivian's review of WSC's last book; the activities of "those Labour devils". Suggests WSC meet Horatio Bottomley with a view to getting "our own paper to draw blood properly.".

Letter from William Parry, chemist (Port Victoria, South Australia) criticising James Kier Hardy and complaining of the Protectionist stance of newspapers in Australia. Urges WSC to continue his fight for Free Trade. Encloses newspaper cuttings [see CHAR 2/29/39].

Letter from J Moore Bayley (47 Temple Row, Birmingham) to WSC praising his rebuke of the press in the House of Commons on the previous night [occasioned by an inaccurate report on the Colonial Conference in the Daily Mail].

Letter from Herbert de Reuter (Reuter's Telegram Company Limited, 24 Old Jewry, London) to WSC explaining why the company did not cable to South Africa the whole of WSC's response in the House of Commons to the Daily Mail's false report of an incident at the Colonial Conference. Signed typescript. Annotated by WSC insisting that the full text of his answer was covered by Parliamentary privilege and should have been cabled.

Letter from Cornelia, Lady Wimborne (Canford Manor, Wimborne, [Dorset]) to WSC referring to his recent speech in Edinburgh [Scotland] in which he attacked the Daily Mail and inviting him to come and address a meeting on land reform.

Letter from A P Stevenson (12 Brunswick Square, Brighton, [Sussex]) to WSC congratulating him on his attack on the Daily Mail.

Letter from ?John Wighes (Holly Bank, Repton, Burton-on- Trent, [Staffordshire]) to WSC endorsing his attack on the Daily Mail.

Issue of the "Free Trader".

Letter from R Millman Mackay (30 Greencroft Gardens, West Hampstead, [London]) to newspaper editors suggesting that all leading newspapers in the Empire should issue commercial supplements to be circulated throughout the Empire. Typescript Sent with CHAR 2/22/36.

Letter from Sir Douglas Straight (Pall Mall Gazette, Newton Street, Holborn, [London]) to WSC asking him to agree to be photographed for publication in the Pall Mall Gazette and congratulating him on his speech on his motion in the House of Commons against imperial preference. 1 card.

Letter from John Gulland (12 Downing Street) to Mr Harris recommending that Macrae of the Free Trade paper the "Northern Weekly" should receive funding.

Text of a statement by Randolph Churchill [Athens, Greece] on the situation in Greece cabled to London by Reuters: praising British policy and those who have executed it on the ground; and criticising those elements of the press who have been hostile to it. Carbon copy.

Telegram from WSC to Marshal Stalin marked "Personal and Top Secret" suggesting the Press are excluded from Argonaut [codename for the Yalta Conference]; and that Service photographers record the event instead. Photocopy.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" suggesting the Press are excluded from Argonaut [codename for the Yalta Conference]; and that Service photographers record the event instead. Photocopy.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" agreeing with his suggestion regarding [excluding] press representatives and photographers [from the Yalta Conference]. Photocopy.

Telegram from Marshal Stalin to WSC marked "Personal and Secret" agreeing to WSC's proposal that there should be no press representation at Argonaut [codename for the Yalta Conference]. Photocopy.

Telegram from Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson [Representative of the British Chiefs of Staff in Washington, United States] to WSC marked "Personal" stating that William Leahy [Chief of Staff to the President of the United States] has stated that President Harry Truman is also concerned about the news leakage in regard to [the contents of a telegram on] Greece and Crossword [negotiations with representatives of the German Army in Switzerland].

Telegram from Foreign Secretary [Anthony Eden, later Lord Avon] (San Francisco [United States]) to WSC marked "Secret" regretting the minor coverage of the British contribution to military operations in the United States media; and suggesting ways of addressing this. Despatched on 29 April. Carbon copy.

Letter from William Mallock (5 St Mary's Passage, Cambridge) to Lady Randolph [Churchill] asking whether she knows anything about "Lawrence Lyon" [Laurance Lyon], owner of the Outlook, a magazine of which Lady Randolph is a patron. He explains that he wants to launch a weekly journal to "celebrate the fallacies of the more revolutionary sections of the Labour Party" and hopes to circumvent Government opposition to a new newspaper by combining it with an existing journal.

Letter from WSC (41 Cromwell Road [London]) to "Jack" [John S Churchill] in which he discusses the possibility that he may be offered [the position of Minister of] Munitions; comments that the press are "amazingly vicious" and that he hopes that the publication of the Dardanelles papers will alter this; discusses the death of "K" [1st Lord Kitchener] and efforts to secure a position for [Sir William] Birdwood in command of the Australian army. Manuscript signed with initial.