Edition of the Berliner Zeitung [Germany] reporting WSC's speech on the navy estimates and the German Navy Law. Sent with CHAR 2/57/7.

Letter from Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] (4 Carlton Gardens, Pall Mall, [London]) to WSC returning the papers WSC sent him and reporting the news from Major O'Gorman that the Germans are making more progress with dirigibles than Reginald McKenna supposed.

Letter from Captain Hugh Watson (Naval and Military Club) to WSC approving the lead WSC is taking on Germany.

Note by ? [Hotel Ritz, Paseo del Prado, Madrid, [Spain] expressing the wish to meet WSC and perhaps other leading men in Kiel [Germany] and referring to Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's desire to reach a workable compromise with Britain over the naval question.

Part of a memorandum on duties on manufactured imports in France and Germany. Typescript.

"Le rapprochement Franco-Allemand condition de la paix du monde": proof sheets of a speech of 28 April 1909 by M D'Estournelles de Constant, member of the French Senate, in the Upper House in Berlin [Germany]. Addressed to WSC in D'Estournelles de Constant's hand, 7 May 1909 15 sheets.

Letter from Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], Inspector General of the Forces (Horse Guards, Whitehall, [London]), to WSC on secret communications from WSC which throw light on German [military] methods and aims.

Letter from Edwin Arrowsmith (1 Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, London) to [WSC] stating that he is a Conservative but that he supports WSC's determination to maintain Britain's naval supremacy. Reports that his nephew, Professor Douglas Savory of Belfast University [Ulster, Ireland] has encountered strong anti-British feeling on his visits to Germany.

Speech by in the House of Commons by Joseph Compton-Rickett on the need to maintain Britain's naval supremacy against a possible German threat and the "civilising" effects of a French presence in Tunis, Algeria and Morocco. Annotated typescipt.

Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (The Times) to WSC quoting a passage on the danger of war between France and Germany and the need for Britain to be prepared. Signed typescript.

Letter from William Royle (Elmwood, Rusholme, [Manchester]) to WSC reporting dissatisfaction among Liberal ranks with the Government's hostile attitude towards Germany and its subservient policy towards Russia with regard to Persia [Iran].

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to William Royle citing the growth of German naval power as the reason why Britain should not antagonise Russia in Persia [Iran]. Warns that France may be forced into war with Germany to avoid national humiliation, but hopes that the rise of democratic forces in Germany and the recovery of Russia after her disasters in Manchuria [China] will lessen the threat of German aggression. Signed and annotated typescript copy.

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC returning a draft [?of a letter by WSC defending the Government's foreign policy; see CHAR 2/53/86-87], agreeing with the point about German naval expenditure and asserting that the Manchester Guardian and others have incorrectly assessed the increase in Britain's political responsibility in northern Persia [Iran] following the Anglo-Russian agreement.

Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Queen Anne's Chambers, Westminster, [London]) to WSC asking whether WSC can make a speech before the elections in Germany to help the "advanced party" there counter the anti-British feeling stirred up by their militarist opponents.

Letter from Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] (Foreign Office) to WSC on the reaction in Britain, Germany and France to WSC to WSC's speech on naval expenditure.

Letter from ? (Brook House, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC stating that he does not think that Arthur Grenfell will be helped by seeing him and considering the prospects for an understanding with Germany.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Arthur Ponsonby agreeing that Britain should remain neutral as long as her own interests or treaty obligations are not involved but adding that a German attack on France or Belgium would change the current position. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh. A typescript copy at CHAR 2/64/6.

Letter from Peter Pollen, War Office, to WSC, giving details of military and naval expenditure in Russia, France, Germany and Italy.

Letter from Hans W. von Herwarth, Hamburg, Germany, to WSC, on his views of the German Army as a "national college", also thanking WSC for gift of Life of Lord Randolph Churchill, and photograph of WSC,.

Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Kissingen, to WSC, on his success in the Sandhurst entrance examination, and his father's anger that he failed to obtain an Infantry cadetship, also on her visit to Germany and meeting with Bismarck.