Telegram from WSC to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] with draft announcement of the release of the Satyagrahi movement prisoners.

Telegram from the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] to WSC rejecting his draft release of the Satyagrahi movement prisoners. [See CHAR 20/45/104-105].

Letter from WSC to Major Sir Ralph Glyn on parliamentary discussions about India.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell [outgoing Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] commenting on the merits and demerits of Wavell returning to England before taking up his new command in India, and stating that he is "putting the point" to the Viceroy [Lord Linlithgow] [see CHAR 20/40/45 ].

Typescript copy of telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell [outgoing Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] commenting on the merits and demerits of Wavell returning to England before taking up his new command in India, and stating that he is "putting the point" to the Viceroy [Lord Linlithgow].[see CHAR 20/40/43 ].

Telegram from WSC to Viceroy of India [Lord Linlithgow] reciting text of message from General Sir Archibald Wavell outgoing Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] accepting his transfer to new post of Commander-in-Chief, India, and requesting a short period at home before taking up the new command.

Telegram from Viceroy of India [Lord Linlithgow] to WSC advising that General Sir Archibald Wavell [incoming Commander -in-Chief, India] should spend several months in India before returning to Britain [T338]; with reply from WSC to Viceroy reciting text of telegram sent to General Wavell, with copy of telegram sent from WSC to General Wavell [T339 - T340].

Telegram from WSC to Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] congratulating the Indian Army on achievements in Eritrea.

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood to WSC on the lack of help from India, and the fault being that of the Viceroy [and Governor- General of India, 2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun]; encloses letter from 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour] to Wedgwood, on the need for a debate on India; also includes an acknowledgement by Francis Brown [Private Secretary to WSC].

Telegram from Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] to WSC thanking him for his message to the Indian Army; preceded by a covering letter from [?Miles] Clauson (India Office) to [John] Martin [Prime Minister's Private Secretary].

Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)] to 1st Lord Crewe [Secretary of State for India, earlier Robert Crewe-Milnes and 2nd Lord Houghton] on India's contribution to Imperial naval defence. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on India's contribution to Imperial naval defence and the cost of naval services in Indian waters. [Carbon].

Letter from Lord Morley [Secretary of State for India] (India Office) to WSC advising him not to send Sir E[dward] H[enry] [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police] to India with King George V as it would be a "sharp snub" to the Indian Police authorities and would demonstrate fear. Manuscript signed with initials.

Letter from Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC concerning the possibility of [Sir Edward] Henry [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police accompanying the King to India] which he has not had a chance to discuss with the King. Signed manuscript.

Letter from Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] (Buckingham Palace) to WSC discussing the King's visit to India and advocating that Sir Edward Henry [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police] should accompany the King. Signed typescript.

Draft letter from [WSC] (Home Office) to Lord Crewe [earlier Lord Houghton, also Robert Milnes, Secretary of State for India] enclosing letters [not present] from Lord Morley [earlier Secretary of State for India] and Sir Arthur Bigge [later Lord Stamfordham, Permanent Secretary to King George V] about the possibility of Sir Edward Henry [Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police] accompanying the King to India, and saying that the decision should be made by Lord Crewe. Typescript.

Letter from the Aga Khan (Hotel Ritz, Place Vendome, Paris, [France]) to Edwin Montagu urging the British government to reverse its opposition to the humiliating peace terms imposed on Turkey, which are alienating the whole of the Islamic world and encouraging anti-British feeling in India.

Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] arguing that the Government's anti-Turkish and pro-Bolshevik policy is harming British interests in India and the Middle East, is ruinously expensive, and is alienating the Liberals' Conservative coalition partners. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from Josiah Wedgwood (Lucknow, [India]) to WSC on: the difficulties caused by the fanatical Muslims in India; the elections in Greece; Ottoman suzerainty over Smyrna, Thrace and Arabia; the boycott by the Muslims of any of their number who do not boycott the British; the fate of Peter Wrangel [the evacuation of his forces from the Crimea] (25 Nov). Annotated by WSC: Prime Minister "great minds think alike" (19 Dec).

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 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] (House of Lords) to WSC suggesting that WSC write to Lord Curzon suggesting that Birkenhead speak on the Amritsar Massacre.