Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin regarding chemical weapons: states that he will issue a warning to Germany and Finland about British retaliation for poison gas attacks against the Soviet Union at the beginning of May; asks that Stalin send a specialist to explain Soviet requirements; offers to supply mustard and bleaching materials to the Soviet Union in advance of an expert's report.

Telegram from Sir Archibald Clark Kerr [British Ambassador to the Soviet Union, later 1st Lord Inverchapel] to WSC reciting a message from Joseph Stalin regarding his decision to send Vyacheslav Molotov [Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs] to London.

Telegram from Harry Hopkins [Special adviser and assistant to the President of the United States] to WSC regarding accumulations of shipping for the Soviet Union and asking if more ships can be carried in the next convoys in order to clear this up.

Telegram from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, stating that if he remains on the defensive until July, it will be necessary to consider the movement of 15 air squadrons from Libya to sustain the Soviet left wing in the Caucasus.

Telegram from Joseph Stalin to WSC: expresses appreciation for measures to insure supplies to the Soviet Union and to intensify air attacks on Germany; expresses the conviction that 1942 "will be decisive in the turn of events at the battle front against Hitlerism"; suggests the need for an exchange of views regarding the text of an agreement on the Soviet Union's frontiers.

Telegram from WSC to Premier Joseph Stalin: states that 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] is off to Washington [United States] to "help smooth out the Treaty question" [on confirming the borders of the Soviet Union]; comments on lunch with Ivan Maisky [Soviet Ambassador to Britain] and the implications of the use of poison gas by Germany against the Soviet Union; recommends the new British Ambassador to the Soviet Union [Sir Archibald Kerr, later 1st Lord Inverchapel].

Telegram from the Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "most secret" regarding the need for co-ordination of plans with the Soviet Union against the possibility of a German attack through the Caucasus in the autumn and suggesting ways in which the political obstacles might be overcome.

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Lord Carson [earlier Sir Edward Carson] on: David Lloyd George's intention of endorsing their letter when it is published; his attitude to the Russian treaty; the important criticism of the treaty in the "Daily News". Carbon copy.

Letter from O Brunstrom (Grand Hotel du Canadel, Paris, [France]) to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan,Altnabraec, Caithness, Scotland) speculating about Boris Savinkov's dealings with the Soviet government and the plans of Sidney Reilly, who in May seemed more concerned with Benito Mussolini than with Russian matters. Sent with CHAR 2/134/130-131.

Letter from O Brunstrom (Grand Hotel du Canadel, Paris, [France]) to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness, Scotland) giving further reports about Boris Savinkov's dealings with the Soviet government and rejecting Sidney Reilly's theory that Savinkov has been killed. Sent with CHAR 2/134/130-131.

Letter from N Gwynne Trew (The Spies Petroleum Company Ltd, 62 London Wall, London) to WSC (Chartwell) enclosing CHAR 2/134/138-145 and outlining the commercial objections to the Anglo -Russian treaties.

"A criticism of the Anglo-Russian treaties" [by N Gwynne Trew of the Spies Petroleum Company Ltd]. Sent with CHAR 2/134/135-137.

Letter from Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso] (Dalnawillan, Altnabraec, Caithness, [Scotland]) to WSC congratulating him on his Edinburgh speech, complaining of the "defeatist" attitude of the Scottish Conservative press towards the Anglo-Russian treaty, and stressing the need for David Lloyd George to "stick to his guns.".

Letter from Sir Robert Waley-Cohen (St Helens Court, Great St Helens, London) to 1st Lord Bearsted [earlier Sir Marcus Samuel] (The Mote, Maidstone, [Kent]) on the current uncertain position regarding the property and staff of the Shell oil company in Russia and the grant by the Soviet government of oil concessions to some United States and one Italo-Belgian company.

Letter from [WSC] (Chartwell) to Sir Robert Horne [later Lord Horne of Slamannan] on his hope that the Government will be defeated over their dropping of the prosecution against J R Campbell because otherwise they may be able to get out of their negotiations with the Soviet Government by inducing a disagreement with them over Georgia. Carbon copy.

Letter from N Gwynne Trew (The Spies Petroleum Company Ltd, 62 London Wall, London) to WSC (Chartwell) enclosing CHAR 2/135/12-13 and CHAR 2/125/14-19 as showing the attitude which the Labour Party are likely to take up in the debate in the House of Commons on the Anglo-Russian treaty.

Letter from Ben Turner, Labour MP for Batley (The Homestead, Carlton Avenue, Batley, [Yorkshire]) to the secretary of the Association of British Creditors of Russia (129 Cannon Street, [London]) answering the Association's criticisms of the Government over the terms of the Anglo-Russian treaties. Copy sent with CHAR 2/135/11.