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.

Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on communication between Cabinet Ministers and the Press, particularly relating to consultation with the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Samuel Hoare, later 1st Lord Templewood] prior to broadcasting. [carbon].

Letter from Sydney Brooke (80 Addison Road, Kensington [London]) to WSC to arrange an appointment to discuss a bill for the restriction of the press in wartime and enclosing an article from the Fortnightly Review [see CHAR 12/2/46] which illustrates the attitude of some journalists who are "just as dissatisfied with the present state of affairs as the Admiralty itself". Signed manuscript annotated by WSC and Edward Marsh.

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.