Includes printed summaries of affairs in various countries including Russia, Egypt and Armenia with notes by William Ormsby-Gore [later 4th Lord Harlech, Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered include: the arrest of Bolo Pasha; British diplomacy in Turkey; unrest in Russia; the blockade of the Red Sea and Zionism.

War Office Prints concerning Russia including: Despatches by Colonel Alfred Knox, Military Attache, Petrograd on Armament, Operations around Lodz; the South West Front in the Eastern Theatre; Events in Northern Poland, Mar 1915.

Text and rough notes on relations between Britain and Russia, 1914-15, particularly over the Balkans and the Dardanelles straits. [This relates to "British documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914", edited by George Gooch and Harold Temperley: Vol XI, The Outbreak of War, Foreign Office documents, June-Aug 1914, collected and arranged by JWHM, and published in 1926].

Also includes lists of articles to be included in JWHM's book of collected essays.

Memoranda by JWHM and issues of the Westminster Gazette with his articles on the trial for treason of the Russian Minister of War Vladimir Sukhomlinov and Russian mobilisation in 1914. [This relates to source material for "British documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914", edited by George Gooch and Harold Temperley: Vol XI, The Outbreak of War, Foreign Office documents, June-Aug 1914, collected and arranged by JWHM, and published in 1926].

Memoranda on Russian mobilisation in 1914, draft articles by JWHM and cuttings, mainly from the German press, on the trial for treason of the Russian Minister of War Vladimir Sukhomlinov. [This relates to source material for "British documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914", edited by George Gooch and Harold Temperley: Vol XI, The Outbreak of War, Foreign Office documents, June-Aug 1914, collected and arranged by JWHM, and published in 1926].

General Election: Papers: Including handwritten and typescript drafts of drafts of WSC's election address and statements, including "British Intervention in Russia - The Truth".

Impressions of Major-General John Headlam's visit to the South Western Front of Russia, from Czernowitz to Tarnopol, and of his visit to Petrograd [later Saint Petersburg] during the Revolution.

Letter from Muriel Wilson [later Muriel Warde] to WSC, asking him to postpone his visit to Tranby Croft, Hull, and commenting on events in Russia.

Letter from Charles, Duke of Marlborough to [ ], on his visit to Russia, including account of Court Ball and meeting with the Tsar.

Letter from WSC (War Office) to Lord Curzon enclosing a note from Sir Henry Wilson [not present] asking whether it is not possible to recognise Alexander Kolchak as "the Russian Government" without defining its actual territorial scope. Typescript copy.

Letter from Lord Curzon (1 Carlton House Terrace, [London]) to WSC reporting that the title "The Provisional Government of Siberia" is preferred to the Russian Government or the Russian National Government as the designation for Admiral Alexander Kolchak's regime.