Telegram from WSC to Harry Hopkins [Personal Assistant and Aide to President of the United States] asking for information about immediate intentions which is missed in the absence of John Winant [United States Ambassador to Britain]. [Typescript with annotations in unknown hand].

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt: hopes for publicity for United States marines "taking over that cold place" [?Iceland]; refers to Vichy resistance in Syria; comments on effect of operations "Tiger" and "Jaguar" [codenames for operations to supply reinforcements to Middle East]; comments on imminent German onslaught on Soviet Union [information learned from Enigma decrypts].

Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC congratulating him on his Rochester [University] broadcast which coincided with the expulsion of German consuls from the United States.

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC assuring him that rumours of ill-health about President Roosevelt and Harry Hopkins [Personal Assistant and Aide to President of the United States] are greatly exaggerated.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC suggesting Bathurst [Gambia], Freetown [Sierra Leone] and Liberia as delivery points in Africa for planes supplied by the United States; also comments on favourable American reaction to Freezing of German and Italian assets in the United States.

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC reporting President Roosevelt's proposal for United States air bases at Bathurst [Gambia], Freetown [Sierra Leone] and Liberia, and the necessity of getting fighters to that part of the world to ease anxieties of Free French colonies.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt welcoming the proposed ferry service for aircraft from Brazil to West Africa; and commenting on the failure of the latest offensive to recapture the initiative in Western Desert.

Telegram from WSC to Wendell Wilkie asking him to be cautious "lest in trying to galvanize American opinion" he discloses information which may dishearten British merchant seamen.

Letter from WSC to [Franklin Roosevelt], President of the United States, thanking him for the gifts from the people of the United States but emphasizing that the shipping lanes are required for military purposes.

Letter from WSC to Henry Stimson, United States Secretary of War, thanking him and General George Marshall [Chief of the United States General Staff] and General Robert Eichelberger for presenting him to the troops during his visit to the United States.

Letter from WSC to Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, challenging the decision by the United States to withdraw Lend-Lease funding for operations Bolero [codename for preparations for the invasion of Normandy, France] and Roundup [codename for the Allied invasion of North West Europe] in favour of Torch [codename for Allied invasion of North West Africa].

Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on proposals by the Japanese Ambassador [Kichisaburo Nomura]; for restoration of peace with China in return for petroleum from the United States and an end to sanctions; United States propose trade deal involving raw silk; suspects trouble will follow soon anyway; with reply from WSC expressing concern for China.

Telegram from John Winant [United States Ambassador to Britain] to WSC with message from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] advising that the United States Senate and House of Representatives have voted declaration of war.

Telegram from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] requesting another conference to review joint policy; would bring Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound [1st Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff], Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal [Chief of Air Staff], Field-Marshal Sir John Dill [Chief of Imperial General Staff] and 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Supply, earlier Max Aitken].

Telegram from WSC to Major-General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] asking him to spare United States tanks and aeroplanes from Acrobat [codename for the operation against Tripoli, Libya], to defend Malaya [later Malaysia] and Singapore; United States will send troops to Northern Ireland, bomb Germany from Britain, and support Gymnast [codename for the plans for the British occupation of North West Africa].

Telegrams from WSC to the Lord Privy Seal [Clement Attlee] listing discussions with [Franklin Roosevelt] President of the United States [at Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada]; agreement on Pilgrim [codename for Allied operation to seize the Canary Islands]; with draft ultimatum to Japan and draft declaration of post- war aims [Atlantic Charter, for War Cabinet approval.

Letter from Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, to WSC with message on visit by Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to Roosevelt] and General George Marshall [Chief of Staff, United States Army], pledging joint offensive in Western European theatre.

Letter from WSC to [William] Averell Harriman [United States representative in London of Combined Shipping Adjustment Board] thanking him for the figures on number and type of merchant ships completed in the United States in September.

Telegram from Eric Seal [Deputy Secretary of the Admiralty, British Admiralty Delegation, United States] to WSC reporting the wide distribution of libellous remark attributed to WSC about United States entry into World War One, and advising WSC to make a public denial [see CHAR 20/40/94-95 ].

Telegram from Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood, then Lord Irwin, British Ambassador to the United States] to WSC reporting his discussion with President Roosevelt regarding timing of publicity relating to arrival of first contingent of United States forces in Iceland.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC "am asking Congress... to substantially increase our building of merchant ships so that we should build a minimum of five to five and a half million tons in 1942 and seven million in 1943".