Letter from Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan] (59 Pall Mall, London) to WSC (Chartwell) on the excitement caused by their forthcoming meeting in Edinburgh [Scotland] and on WSC's and Horne's respective views on Ireland.

Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness, [Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him on his Edinburgh speech, complaining of the "defeatist" attitude of the Scottish Conservative press towards the Anglo-Russian treaty, and stressing the need for David Lloyd George to "stick to his guns.".

Letter from Sir James Calder (Leith, [Scotland]) to 2nd Lord Linlithgow (Hopetoun House, South Queensferry [West Lothian, Scotland]) explaining that he has withdrawn as Liberal candidate for Linlithgowshire because he believes that there are too many extremists to enable his ideas of Liberal-Conservative cooperation to be carried out successfully. Copy sent with CHAR 2/134/152.

Letter from Katherine, Duchess of Atholl (84 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC reporting that Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] seemed to give a negative response to the 8th Duke of Atholl's suggestion of Liberal-Conservative co-operation in his constituency [Caithness, Scotland] but promising that the matter will be carefully considered in the light of WSC's advice that Sinclair should not be opposed.

Letter from [WSC] to Austen Chamberlain describing the position of Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] with regard to the Coalition candidature for East Perthshire [Scotland] and arguing that it would be unfair to require the Liberals to give up one of their seats in Scotland because the Conservatives are already over-represented there and that the capture by the Conservatives of East Perthshire would cause him difficulties in Dundee. Typescript copy.

Picture postcards of Hamilton Palace [Larnarkshire, Scotland] and wild white cattle in Cadzow Forest, Hamilton.

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Curzon recommending that the 5th Duke of Sutherland, who has great political influence in Scotland, should deal with Scottish business in the House of Lords. Another copy at CHAR 2/106/124-125. Typescript copy.

Letter from John S Boyd (Duncliffe, Dunoon, Argyll, [Scotland]) describing how criticism of the Government's Indian policy was suppressed at the Scottish Unionist Conference. Copy sent with CHAR 2/197/147.

Letter from 8th Duke of Atholl [earlier Lord Tullibardine] (98 Elm Park Gardens [London]) to WSC on the political situation in East Perthshire [Scotland] between the outgoing Conservative MP, Lord Scone and the Liberal activist and possible candidate Francis Norie-Miller, and the bad effect it would have, both on Randolph Churchill and "Kitty" [Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, and MP for Kinross and Western] if Randolph Churchill also stood as a candidate.

Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, Chief Organizer, India Defence League, to WSC, enclosing a note from [Henry] Victor Raikes on Norrie Miller, the prospective National Government candidate for Perth [Scotland].

Telegram from John Falconer, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, to WSC (10 Downing Street) offering him Edinburgh's congratulations on victory [in Europe].

Cutting from the Glasgow Herald [Scotland] reporting a speech by Herbert Morrison at Greenock [Renfrewshire, Scotland] attacking WSC's style of leadership, his election tour of London, and praising Scotland's "democratic traditions".

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to an unknown correspondent, enclosing a memorandum by the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [? Sir Henry Jackson], on the importance of developing the Territorial Forces in the Orkney and Shetland Isles [Scotland], to counter German influence and protect a naval wireless station on the Shetlands. WSC requests that the memorandum be shown to General Sir John French [Chief of Imperial General Staff, later 1st Lord Ypres]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Naval Secretary [Rear-Admiral Dudley de Chair] on the appointment of Vice-Admiral Robert Lowry as Admiral Commanding in Scotland. [Typescript copy].

Minute from WSC, to [Rear-Admiral Alexander Bethell], Director of Naval Intelligence, asking for his views on the establishment of a wireless station in the Shetland Islands; also asking if it would be worth putting a small torpedo base there and about German influence in the islands. [Hand-written, initialled by WSC].

Letter from WSC to "Hopie" (2nd Lord Linlithgow) declining the invitation for himself and CSC to stay at Holyrood [Edinburgh] during the opening of the Assembly of the Church of Scotland at the end of May: "The burden is heavy in these days, and it does not grow lighter as victory draws nearer." [carbon].

Includes: briefing for a meeting with Margaret Hodge [Chairman of the Association of London Authorities] on problems for Labour groups in London Borough Councils; arrangements for a post-election party; the unveiling of a plaque in a miners’ welfare, Hordern, County Durham; notes on Owen Oyston and the News on Sunday; briefing for a meeting with the Scottish Campaign Co-ordinating Committee; briefing for a meeting with Enrique Silva Cima, President of the Chilean Radical Party.