Largely comprising hotel and pharmacy receipts 1938; and diary entries for May 1932.

Text of ELS’s "Petain and the French Mutinies".

Texts of "General Petain in 1917" [incomplete] and "General de Gaulle in 1940".

Paper written by Marshal Philippe Petain on the events of 16 April-23 October 1917, particularly on the spread of pacifism in France, lack of morale, strategic errors and mutinies among the French troops. Later published in ELS’s "Two men who saved France".

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].

Precis of a conversation between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and the French Naval Attache [Jean, Comte de Saint-Seine], on co-operation between the two navies on the outbreak of war. [Carbon copy].

Collected telegrams from the French Admiralty on the chances of the [German battle cruiser] Goeben escaping from the Dardanelles [Turkey] and also on suggested naval reinforcements. [Duplicate typescript].

Agreement between the Admiralty and the French Ministry of Marine on joint Anglo-French naval policy, particularly in the Mediterranean, for the destruction of the [German battle cruiser] Goeben and the [light cruiser] Breslau. [Duplicate typescript].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] reporting his meeting with the French Naval Attache, Jean, Comte de Saint- Seine, on the possibility of joint action in the Mediterranean. [Hand-written copy by Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC].

Memorandum by the Admiralty War Staff on the fifty per cent superiority of "Dreadnought" ships in Home Waters, noting the margins of safety maintained against France, 1900-1905, and against Germany, 1911-1912, and 1915; also includes a note on the comparative strength of the British and French fleets during the Napoleonic Wars. [Printed].

Note by the Admiralty War Staff, showing the strength of French, Italian and Austrian Fleets in the Adriatic. [Typescript].

Note by the Admiralty War Staff, listing available French Warships from the Mediterranean. [Typescript].

Letter from John Milbanke to WSC, on WSC's visit to France.

Letter from Thomas Trafford, Buckingham Palace Hotel, London to WSC, on WSC's visit to France, asking for the name of his host at Versailles, as a friend, Lord Granard was studying for, the Diplomatic Service examination, and wished to improve his French and German.

Letter from Chester Dawson to WSC, on WSC's visit to France.

Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Canford Manor, Wimborne Dorset to WSC, on his visit to France. Also on the health of Lord Randolph Churchill "Papa is very well & in great spirits but his beard is a "terror". I think I shall have to bribe [him] to shave it off".

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.

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 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].

Note by the French Attache on the size and command of the French force to be sent to the Dardanelles. Includes covering note from WSC to Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War], Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] and the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith].