Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl MP to WSC, lunch invitation. Also commenting on recent visit to Paris, stating that the French were very depressed at the lack of understanding of their position shown by the British press, with covering note by Violet Pearman.

Letter from WSC to Ella Maillart, thanks for agreeing not to publish article about him [carbon].

Letter from Lord Halsbury, Paris, to WSC, on Anglo-French relations. Commenting that many in France felt that Britain would never help France, no matter what happened, and that Anthony Eden (later Lord Avon) at the Foreign Office was regareded as am insult to any nation to whom he had been sent.

Letter from WSC to Andre Tardieu, thanks for gift of book, "Le souverain captif". Also commenting that he hoped that the elections would result in a strong France and above all not a bitterly divided France." [carbon.

Letter from Major P Granville Edge, Glengall Road, Woodford Green, Essex, on his letter to "The Times" on the France and the League of Nations. Also enclosing his visiting card.

Cutting from "The Times", letter by WSC "France and the League".

Admiralty Secret War Orders for the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean [Admiral Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne] on concerted action by France and Britain in the Mediterranean in a war against the Triple Alliance [Germany, Austria and Italy]. [Typescript copy].

Letter from Sir Henry Strakosch (Princes House, 95 Gresham Street, London) to WSC on the increase in the stocks of monetary gold held by the United States and France.

Memorandum on the visit of Joseph Caillaux [the French finance minister] to London in August 1925 regarding the French war debt.

"Agreement for the settlement of the war debt of France to Great Britain. With an exchange of letters between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the French Minister of Finance.".

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to an unidentified correspondent, on his visit to the French fleet at Toulon [France] aboard HMS Hussar. WSC comments that he was much impressed by the concern shown by the French for the comfort of the petty officers and men, in which they were superior to Britain; he recommends the captain of the Hussar, Lieutenant Neston Diggle, for promotion. [Carbon copy].

Precis of conversation between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and the French Naval Attache, on Anglo-French naval co-operation in the event of war. [Carbon copy with ms annotations, initialled by WSC].

Telegram from the Ministry of Marine, Bordeaux [France], to the [French Naval Attaché, (London)], asking about the Admiralty's intentions for supporting the French Army on the Western Front. [Carbon].

Copy of a letter from WSC to [Pierre] Flandin [Minister of State, France] marked "confidential" asking for French information about the present strength of the German Air Force, predicting 2,000 aircraft by the end of 1936, and asking for information about French expenditure on aviation services for use in debates in Parliament.Carbon typescript. Unsigned.

Minute from WSC, to Sir Edward Grey, [Foreign Secretary] and Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on naval policy with France in the Mediterranean. [Typed transcript].

Minute from WSC, (Admiralty Yacht [Enchantress]), to Sir Edward Grey, [Foreign Secretary] and the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on naval policy in the Mediterranean, particularly regarding France. [Hand-written, initialled by WSC, Asquith and Grey, with typed transcript].

Letter from Victor Augagneur, French Minister of Marine to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on collaboration between the two departments over naval operations, particularly thanking WSC for opening the ports of Malta and Gibraltar to the French, and promising close co-operation.

Draft letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Victor Augagneur [French Minister of Marine], on co-operation between the two departments, particularly on establishing personal communication between himself and Augagneur, and delaying a declaration of war against Austria until the French Fleet was in position at Malta, to help in the Adriatic. [Hand-written copy, unsigned].

Letter from Victor Augagneur, French Minister of Marine to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, approving WSC's plans for joint naval operations in the Mediterranean, and detailing the French fleet, including aircraft sent to the Suez Canal [Egypt], and explaining that they had no light cruisers available. Includes hand-written copy and note by WSC marking the letter as satisfactory.

Message from the French Foreign Minister on France's decision to send a division to Lemnos (following a response from Greece), requesting that naval operations in the Dardanelles be delayed. Includes WSC's response that the naval operations had already begun and could not be interrupted. [Hand-written, initialled by WSC].