Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, speculating on German plans for the winter regarding the Balkans and the East; urging preparations to be made in Western Europe. [carbon with manuscript annotations by WSC].

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.

Letter from Sir Ian Malcolm to WSC, on the political situation in France, and offering the use of his office during WSC's visit to Paris for the financial conference.

Report by Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] to [King Edward VII] on his visit to Berlin [Germany] including accounts of conversations with the Kaiser and others on military and naval policy, Free Trade and relations between Britain, Germany and France. Typescript.

Memorandum from Major Henry Lowther [Military Attache] (Paris, [France]) to Sir F Bertie [Ambassador to France] on arrangements for WSC's attendance at the French military manoeuvres. Typescript.

Letter from General Sir Ian Hamilton (Head Quarters, Southern Command, Tidworth House, Andover, [Hampshire]) to WSC on: WSC's report on the French army manoeuvres; Lloyd George's successful intervention in the railway dispute; the reform of the Territorial Army and the South African constitution as the main achievements of the present government. Signed typescript.

Letter from Douglas M Gane (456 Great St Helen's, [London]) to WSC asserting that in view of the growth of French power on the Atlantic coast of Morocco Britain should have safeguarded her communications with Cape Colony [South Africa] by obtaining the right to use the port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife [Canary Islands], which could have been done by including Spain in the recent Anglo-French agreement.

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 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 (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 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.

Page from the African World including editorial on the danger to Britain if France gained control of Tangier [Morocco]. Sent with CHAR 2/121/127.

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.

Letter from WSC (Colonial Office) to "Eddie" [17th Lord Derby] arguing that it is a delicate time to speak about Anglo-French relations because France may invade the Ruhr [Germany] and that Britain should have used her influence to prevent such an event rather than "quarrelling with France for not pandering to the Bolshevists". Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Derby House, Stratford Place, [London]) to WSC repeating his request to him to address a dinner being held to promote closer co-operation between Anglo-French societies, which he believes will help to improve relations between Britain and France which have been damaged by the policy of David Lloyd George and will dissuade France from invading the Ruhr [Germany].

Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Derby House, Stratford Place, [London]) to WSC reporting that there is widespread bitterness in France against David Lloyd George but that most people, including Raymond Poincare, would not support an occupation of the Ruhr [Germany]. Again urges WSC to address the dinner being held to promote closer co-operation between Anglo-French societies and states his inability to support David Lloyd George's foreign policy.