Letter from Alexander Maxwell (Home Office) to [Edward Marsh] reporting that the Foreign Office has decided that the Russian labour delegation should not be allowed to come to Britain.

Copy of a telegram from Sir Mansfeldt Findlay (Christiana, Norway) reporting the protests by Norwegian labour organisations against the refusal of the Norwegian government to allow a Russian labour delegation to travel through Norway to Denmark and Britain. Annotated by WSC: "Home Secretary. Are these people coming by your permission? Is it all right?" (26 Aug).

Letter from James Baum, secretary of the Leicester and District Trades Council (11 Briton Street, [Leicester]) to WSC asserting that WSC's policy of war against Soviet Russia has been "deliberately camouflaged" by WSC, his colleagues and the press and that most people in Britain oppose it.

Cutting from the Morning Post on the reasons why the United States government cannot recognise a Bolshevik government of Russia.

Extract from a speech by WSC as the guest of the Aldwych Club justifying the help being given by Britain to the anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia but stating that this cannot extend to the compulsory despatch of troops.

Telegram, partly in code, from Edward Marsh (Colonial Office) to WSC (c/o British High Commission, Cairo, [Egypt]) summarising the Foreign Office statement on the risings against the Soviet Government in Russia. Copy.

Foreign Office statement on the risings against the Soviet Government in Russia.

Letter from [WSC] to Victor Cazalet explaining why the Allies helped the anti-Bolshevik forces in Russia and arguing that now those forces have been defeated there is no reason why the Government should prevent people trading at their own risk with the Bolsheviks, who now have to be left to show whether or not "they intend to observe the ordinary conduct of civilised nations in their relations to the outer world." Typescript copy.

Letter from Lord Curzon (Foreign Office) to WSC explaining that Foreign Office telegram [suggesting that the Poles be advised not to co-operate with Boris Savinkov] was one which he did not personally authorise and that it arose from the desire to remove any excuse for the Bolsheviks' impending attacks.

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 17th Lord Derby (Knowsley, Prescot, Lancashire) to WSC expressing agreement with his policy on the Bolsheviks, arguing that long-term trading relations with Russia under a Soviet government will be impossible, and asking WSC's opinion of his idea of a defensive alliance with France.

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 [General Prince Belosselsky-Belosersky] thanking him for the gift of a portrait of John, 1st Duke of Marlborough and commiserating with Russia's grave plight. Typescript copy.

Letter from WSC (War Office) to "Eddie" [17th Lord Derby] agreeing with Derby's views [on foreign policy], asking if he can read Derby's two letters to [David Lloyd George], expressing the hope that he (WSC) will be able to alter Government policy on Russia and Turkey and suggesting that he, Derby and Lord Scarbrough meet for lunch. Copy.

Cuttings from the Morning Post: correspondence of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II between 1895 and 1914.

Letter from 17th Lord Derby (Knowsley, Prescot, Lancashire) to WSC announcing his intention of criticising Government policy towards Leonid Krassin and his supporters and towards the alteration of the Treaty of Sevres [in favour of Turkey] at a forthcoming speech in Manchester.

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to the editor of the Morning Post [H A Gwynne] on the reporting of the statements by WSC that few of the "professional revolutionaries" in Russia are Russian and most of them are Jews. Typescript copy. Another copy at CHAR 2/116/169.

Letter from Alexis Aladin (National Liberal Club, Whitehall, [London]) to WSC, the leader of the peasant union in Russia, describing his opposition to the Soviet government and asking to be provided with useful work during his enforced stay in Britain.

Letter from Victor Cazalet (Fairlawne, Tonbridge, [Kent]) to Edward Marsh enclosing and commenting on notes on the naphtha fields in Baku [Azerbaydzhan] owned by Avnatamoff [see CHAR 2/116/5-7].

Notes on the naphtha fields in Baku [Azerbaydzhan] owned by Avnatamoff. Sent with CHAR 2/116/4.

Letter from [WSC] to David Lloyd George drawing his attention to Victor Cazelet's idea that a British company should acquire an interest in the oil fields of Baku [Azerbaydzhan] and suggesting that it be referred to the Petroleum Executive. Typescript copy.

Letter from WSC to John Gretton [later Lord Gretton] thanking him for the copy of the Daily Herald, referring to his membership of the Cabinet Committee looking into the organisation of the Special Department, praising Basil Thomson's services in regard to Bolshevism and regretting that Leonid Krassin was not expelled sooner. Typescript copy.