Letter from WSC to the Duke of Westminster, asking for financial support for the India Defence League [carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on Admiralty plans to sign a contract with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, and on possible funding from India to provide the 2 million pounds required to develop the oilfields in Persia [Iran]. [Carbon copy].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to an unidentified correspondent [? 1st Lord Crewe, Secretary of State for India, earlier Robert Crewe-Milnes and 2nd Lord Houghton] on the proposed increased contribution by India towards the cost of naval vessels maintained in Indian waters. [Carbon copy].

Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to Lord Morley [earlier John Morley] regretting an apparent disagreement between them over the circulation to WSC of documents relating to the report of the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on the North-West Frontier of India. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from Lord Morley [earlier John Morley] (India Office) to WSC denying that he doubted WSC's discretion about public documents and asserting that he had no objection to WSC's seeing evidence taken by the Committee of Imperial Defence sub-committee on the North-West Frontier of India.

Letter from WSC (Board of Trade) to [Lord Morley, earlier John Morley] expressing relief that the misunderstanding between them [over the circulation to WSC of the evidence taken by the Imperial Defence sub-committee on the North-West Frontier of India] has been cleared up and explaining his attitude to the sub-committee's report. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from the Maharaja of Idar (Idar-Ahmednagar, [India]) to [WSC] asking for help in his scheme to become regent in Jodhpur following the death of his nephew the Maharaja Sir Sardar Singh of Jodhpur. Signed typescript.

Letter from Sardar Singh [Maharaja of Jodhpur, India] (Dehra Dun, [India]) to his uncle [the Maharaja of Idar] on: his own and King Edward VII's illness; maladministration in Jodhpur and the need for Idar to return [?from Europe] to rectify the situation. Sends greetings to and from various people and asks to be sent gun cartridges, horses, ponies and dogs. Typescript copy.

Letter from Sardar Singh [Maharaja of Jodhpur, India] (Ratanda Palace, [India]) to "my very dear son" denying that he is again favouring Pandit Sukhdeo [Prasad] and his party and expressing his determination to "kick them out". Typescript copy.

Letter from Sir John French [later Lord French and Lord Ypres], Inspector General of the Forces (Horse Guards, Whitehall, [London]), to WSC on a memorandum WSC has sent referring to the need for six army divisions to be sent from India.

Letter from Lord Nicholson [earlier Sir William Nicholson] (The Mythe, Simla, [India]) to WSC thanking him for his congratulations [on his ennoblement] and describing his work as chairman of the Commission on Indian Army Expenditure. Thinks WSC will need to revise the existing naval arrangements in the Mediterranean.

Proposals for raising territorial units in India by E G Barrow, Military Secretary at the India Office. Annotated: "circulated by the Secretary of State for India".

Letter from Sir Michael Hicks Beach [later Lord St Aldwyn] to WSC, on visit to India, and his reluctance to return to Britain to attack the 1901 Army Reform Scheme.

Letter from Frank Cowie to WSC, on Indian attitudes to free trade.

Cutting from the Heckmondwike Herald, on speech by WSC to Spen Valley Conservative Association [Yorkshire], subjects covered include Home Rule, the Truck Acts, India, and the need for a Church Discipline Bill.

Letter from J.M. Maclean to WSC, on India's place in an Imperial Federation.

Letter from The Society of Arts to WSC, invitation to attend lecture by J.M. Maclean on "India's Place in an Imperial Federation".

Letter from A N Templeton (Apollo Chambers, Bombay, [India]) to WSC (105 Mount Street) on Indian currency policy.

Letter from Colonel Stuart Graham (Bangalore, India) to WSC, expressing pleasure at reading "My Early Life", and reminiscing about his own service, particularly in India, and on present day conditions in India, suggesting that Mohandas Gandhi and his supporters should be deported to "some out of the way spot like St Helena" and not allowed any communication with India; includes visiting card.

Memorandum by the [? Indian Police] sent to Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Special Branch, Metropolitan Police, on the Ghadr Indian revolutionary party, active in California, which had threatened to kill WSC during his lecture tour of the United States. [Typescript].

Letter from T C Angus (Lambourne End, Essex) to WSC, with sympathy on his road accident in New York [United States], and commenting on the view in the United States that Britain is behaving as a bully in India, and noting American ignorance of the massacre at Cawnpore.

Copy of memorial by P Jaswantsingh, Guaranteed Chief of Lalgarh Estate, India, sent to WSC, and also sent to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [1st Lord Willingdon, earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas] on the proposed change in the status of the Guaranteed Chiefships.