Letter from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to WSC responding to suggestions for war preparation and discussing European strengths and weaknesses, commenting on the French Air Force. [annotated by WSC].

Copy of a minute from WSC to Sir Otto Niemeyer [Controller of Finance] on war reparations and the payment of war debts to the United States. WSC feels that there is a good prospect of obtaining reparations from Europe, including 25 million pounds a year from Germany, and that they should wait for proposals from France and Italy. He advocates an open statement that all previous offers have lapsed.

Letter from WSC to Brigadier-General [Edward] Spears hoping Spears would be able to act between [6th Lord] Gort [earlier John Vereker, Commander-in-Chief of the British Field Force] and [General Alphonse] Georges [Commander of the French Forces and Operations in the North East], or [General Sir] Edmund Ironside [Chief of Imperial General Staff] and [General Maurice] Gamelin [commanding French Land Forces], if WSC could arrange it.

Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant to ?WSC] giving a comparison of enlisted men in Britain and France.

Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on conclusions about Allied air strengths in comparison with those of Germany.

Printed note by WSC for the War Cabinet on planned joint Naval mining operations with the French, involving the Royal Marines.

Letter from WSC to Paul Reynaud [Prime Minister of France] on the appointment of Major-General Edward Spears as defence liaison with France. [Carbon].

Letter from Clare Sheridan (1 Rue Bonapart, [Paris, France]) to WSC asking him to try to get her a job writing letters for the press on the situation in France, affirming her commitment to furthering Anglo-French relations, referring to strikes and tension in France and reporting that 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] hates women and has refused to let her do his bust.

Letter from Clare Sheridan, Rue Bonaparte, Paris, France, to WSC, account of French commemoration of Armistice Day, and on the political situation in France. Asking him to help her to get commission to write a weekly letter on French afairs for a British newspaper "I won't let you down. I'll do good work + I'll stick here even when the Germans bomb Paris!".

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 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].

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].

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].

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].

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].

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].

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 Thomas Gibson Bowles (25 Lowndes Square, [London]) to WSC urging him to take the opportunity to get a commercial treaty with France.