Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Archibald Hurd, on his decision not to reveal his source of information about naval affairs, commenting on the lack of secrecy in regard to naval matters and the levity in which disclosures were regarded, and adding that unless the press were prepared to co-operate with the Admiralty, legislation would be required. [Typescript, annotated and signed by WSC].

Letter from John Astor [Chief proprietor of The Times] to WSC on damage [caused by enemy bombing] at the Times works.

Note from Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC] to Randolph Churchill enclosing a War Cabinet report on foreign propaganda broadcasts: report includes undermining of WSC with a quote from Randolph Churchill on WSC keeping his money safely in the United States, and the suggestion that Sir Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal, is a Bolshevist sympathiser and possible agent.

Letter from Sir Gilbert Parker (20 Carlton House Terrace [London]) to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the loss of HMS Audacious, sunk by a mine in the Irish Sea. He encloses a letter from Ed L Keen, General European Manager of the United Press Associations of America, complaining that the news of the loss had been withheld from the British public, and that permission to cable it out of Britain had been refused.

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Sir Gilbert Parker, defending the decision not to release the news of the sinking of HMS Audacious. [Hand-written copy by Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC].

Letter from Henry Massingham [Editor of the Nation] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the freedom of the press to criticise the Government in time of war.

Note from [WSC] to Arthur Greenwood [Minister without Portfolio], about a cartoon attacking him by David Low in the Evening Standard, a newspaper owned by 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken], commenting that Low had always been very independent and Beaverbrook knew nothing of the attack, with [Greenwood]'s reply stating that he had not suspected Beaverbrook of any involvement.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Beaverbrook [owner of the Evening Standard, earlier Max Aitken] on a cartoon by David Low in the Evening Standard lampooning Arthur Greenwood [Minister without Portfolio]. [Carbon].

Letter from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken] to WSC justifying his non-interference with his newspapers and suggesting he would be able to act more easily outside the administration; with reply and draft from WSC supporting Beaverbrook's position.

Letter from Commander Sir Walter Windham to WSC repeating his request of May 1940 begging to be allowed to travel to Canada and the United States to conduct a press campaign to gain more aeroplanes for the war effort; has conducted similar "rousing" missions in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. [typescript].

Letter from Sir Walter Windham to WSC offering his services to go to the United States and Canada to conduct a press campaign to gain more aeroplanes for the war effort; with [carbon of] a reply from "A B" [Anthony Bevir, Prime Minister's Private Secretary] that the letter will be forwarded to the Secretary of State for Air [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso].

Letter from WSC to Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times] asking what he thinks should be done in the light of his recent leading article.

Letter from WSC to Cecil King [Director of the Daily Mirror] rebuking him for his newspaper's attempts to discredit the Government and create class disturbances: "it is no defence ... to say that your papers specialise in vitriolic writing. Indeed throwing vitriol is thought to be one of the worst of crimes".

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on an enclosed file [missing] of newspaper cuttings by John Gordon [? Director, Beaverbrook Newspapers Limited] "a most mischievous writer".

Telegram from WSC to Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] on speculation in Daily Herald about a new campaign in the Libyan desert.

Telegram from Major-General Arthur Smith [? Chief of General Staff, Middle East] to WSC re article in Daily Herald; Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] wants publicity about strength in Middle East.

Telegram from Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] to WSC explaining that remarks made to the Press were to allay allegations about British attempts to provoke a expeditionary force from the United States.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander -in-Chief, Middle East] rebuking him for a recent statement to the press calling for American man-power to fight Germany, and criticising him for his "almost disparaging" reference to the Russian war effort.

Telegram from WSC to Oliver Lyttelton [later Lord Chandos, Minister of State in the Middle East] (Cairo, [Egypt]) requesting that he should not make informal statements to the press.