Letter from CSC to WSC, on her stay with Jacques and Consuelo Balsan at Lou Sueil, Eze, account of meeting with Gabriel Hamotaux, and commenting on French politics.

Memorandum by WSC to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener on the terms of naval co-operation with France in the eastern Mediterranean. With note by Grey that French should be allowed to have what they want in this sphere, even a share in the occupation of Alexandretta. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/81/11.

Letter in French from Victor Augagneur [French Minister of Marine] (Paris) to [WSC] indicating agreement with British proposals for Anglo-French naval co-operation in the eastern Mediterranean with reference to the attacks on the Dardanelles and Alexandretta (31 Jan). With notes that Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener have seen the letter and that WSC thinks it is satisfactory (3 February). Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/81/13.

Letter in French from Victor Augagneur, French Minister of Marine, to WSC agreeing with the plans for the Dardanelles operations set out in a recent memorandum from WSC and giving details of the relevant French naval dispositions. With notes that the letter was seen by [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener, and that it is satisfactory to WSC. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/81/14.

Letter in French from Deleaney (French Foreign Minister) to Paul Cambon (French Ambassador in London) on the need to reach an agreement with Britain about naval commands in the Mediterranean. Printed copy.

Memorandum by WSC to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener on the terms of naval co-operation with France in the eastern Mediterranean. With note by Grey that the French should be allowed to have what they want in this sphere, even a share in the occupation of Alexandretta. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/54.

Letter in French from Victor Augagneur [French Minister of the Marine] (Paris) to [WSC] indicating agreement with British proposals for Angle-French naval co-operation in the eastern Mediterranean with reference to the attacks on the Dardanelles and Alexandretta (31 Jan). With notes that Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener have seen the letter and that WSC thinks it is satisfactory (3 Feb). Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/56.

Letter in French from Victor Augagneur, French Minister of the Marine, to WSC agreeing with the plans for the Dardanelles operations set out in a recent memorandum from WSC and giving details of the relevant French naval dispositions. With notes that the letter was seen by [Herbert Asquith], Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] and Lord Kitchener, and that it is satisfactory to WSC. Printed copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/74/63.

Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Knowsley, Prescot, Lancashire) to WSC expressing agreement with his policy on the Bolsheviks, arguing that long-term trading relations with Russia under a Soviet government will be impossible, and asking WSC's opinion of his idea of a defensive alliance with France.

Letter from [WSC] to 17th Lord Derby arguing that Mustafa Kemal Pasha [later Ataturk] and a reconciled Turkey should be used as a barrier against the Bolsheviks and to safeguard British interests in the Middle East and India, and that an Anglo-French defensive alliance would be a good idea provided France agreed to let Germany revive economically and so form a barrier to the westward spread of Bolshevism. Also discusses Derby's Territorial Army division. Typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Sydney Chapman (Board of Trade) asking if it is true that France is obtaining large quantities of coal from Germany for nothing and then exporting it to neutral countries at prices fatal to Britain's coal export trade. Typescript copy.

Letter from Austen Chamberlain (11 Downing Street) to WSC expressing agreement with WSC's telegram about the Washington Conference and with David Lloyd George's memorandum from Cannes and suggesting that nothing more can be done until Raymond Poincare has defined his attitude.

Letter from William Tyrrell [later 1st Lord Tyrrell] (Foreign Office) to Edward Marsh asserting that the publication of CHAR 2/120/81-86 and that some one like WSC must tell France that Britain attaches no conditions to its friendship but France must help it recover economically.

Report in French by Jacques Marsillac on a conversation with WSC in which WSC gave strong assurances that Britain would fight alongside France if the circumstances of 1914 arose again.

Letter from WSC (Cannes, [France] to [Edward, Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and the Duke of Windsor] criticising recent British policy in India, praising the Prince's visit there, expressing optimism about the Irish settlement, praising the Pacific Agreement reached at the Washington Conference, criticising the French attitude on submarines and hoping that the Prince will make progress at polo. Typescript copy.

Letter from "Louis" [Brigadier-General Edward Spears] (13 Rue Monsieur, Paris, [France]) to WSC reporting on the anti-British feeling in France arising from the belief that Britain has colluded with the United States to impose conditions on France but hoping that the strong support for Britain from Paul Painleve and Aristide Briand will have its effect on public opinion. Mentions that he has been informed that a British General Election is imminent.

Letter from H A Gwynne (The Morning Post, 346 Strand, [London]) to WSC urging him to protest against David Lloyd George's policy at the Genoa Conference of allowing the aggrandisement of Russia and Germany at the expense of France.

Letter from WSC to H A Gwynne arguing that the Bolsheviks will use their attendance at the Genoa Conference for propaganda purposes at home and that in the unlikely event of their reaching an agreement at the Conference, bringing the threat of a rift between Britain and France, "a very grave issue will be raised on which in the first instance the Cabinet must pronounce." Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to "Fred" [1st Lord Birkenhead, earlier F E Smith] describing his recent fall from a polo pony and regretting that Birkenhead should have given the bulk of Conservatives a further reason to disagree with him by associating himself with the apparently conciliatory attitude being adopted towards the Bolsheviks, to the detriment of Britain's relations with France, by [David Lloyd George] at the Genoa Conference.

Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Derby House, Stratford Place, [London]) to WSC asking him to address a dinner being held to promote closer co-operation between Anglo-French societies and thanking him for taking his son, Lord Stanley, as an assistant private secretary.