Letter from Lord Curzon (Foreign Office) to WSC enclosing a letter from Frederick Guest showing that no official assistance was given to the civil aviation mission to Japan [see CHAR 2/116/21-23].

Letter from Frederick Guest (Air Ministry) to Lord Curzon on the steps which were taken to ensure that the civil aviation mission to Japan led by the Master of Sempill [later Lord Sempill] could not be said to have had official backing. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/116/20.

Letter from [Frederick Guest] to Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes stating the terms on which he proposes to renew Sykes's appointment as Controller-General of Civil Aviation. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Spenser Grey (Royal Aero Club, 3 Clifford Street, [London]) to WSC asking him to enter him (Grey) for the August handicap air race.

Letter from Spenser Grey (Royal Aero Club) to Edward Marsh on the insurance of the aircraft he intends to fly [in the August Handicap air race].

Letter from (Air Ministry) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/124A/11 and stressing the importance of Spenser Grey having insured himself for the air race for which he wishes WSC to enter him.

Letter from [WSC] to Spenser Grey stating that he has entered Grey for the August Handicap air race and hoping that he has made adequate insurance arrangements. Suggested draft sent with CHAR 2/124A/10.

Letter from Harold Perrin, secretary of the Royal Aero Club (3 Clifford Street, [London]) to WSC (2 Sussex Square) returning his entry fee for the August Open Handicap air race because Spenser Grey's aircraft was damaged in an earlier race and he was unable to compete.

Letter from Wing-Commander C Erskine-Risk (Royal Aero Club, 3 Clifford Street, [London]) to WSC giving an account of the eventful flight of himself and Spenser Grey in the Circuit of Britain (King's Cup) air race, and praising Grey's performance as a pilot.

Letter from Spenser Grey (Royal Aero Club, 3 Clifford Street, [London]) to WSC on: his failure in the Circuit of Britain (King's Cup) air race, resulting from bad luck such as the breaking of his compass; the efforts of engineers from the Blackburn company and from Rolls Royce to get his aircraft ready; the effect of WSC entering an aircraft in encouraging "the vulgar rich" in Leeds [Yorkshire] and midland cities to support aviation by entering aircraft for races themselves.

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to the managing directors of the Blackburn Company and Rolls Royce Ltd conveying WSC's appreciation of the efforts of the companies' employees to prepare Spenser Grey's aircraft for the Circuit of Britain (King's Cup) air race. Carbon copy.

Photographs of the aircraft entered by WSC for the King's Cup air race taken shortly after its arrival in Manchester. Sent with CHAR 2/124B/152.

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to Wing-Commander C Erskine-Risk conveying WSC's thanks for his letter describing his flight in the King's Cup air race with Spenser Grey and expressing WSC's admiration for the way in which they coped with their problems. Carbon copy.

Letter from R Blackburn, managing director of the Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Co Ltd (Olympia, Leeds, [Yorkshire]) to [Edward Marsh] expressing thanks for WSC's appreciation of the firm's efforts [in preparing the aircraft WSC had entered for the King's Cup air race].

Letter from Flight-Lieutenant Maxwell Coote (Government House, Sydney, Australia) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment as Chancellor of the Exchequer, reporting that he (Coote) has been appointed ADC to Sir Dudley de Chair, the governor of New South Wales, and that he is the first Royal Air Force officer to secure such a post in Australasia, and that Sir Keith Smith and Vickers Ltd are planning an airship route from Australia to England in two years time.

Letter from C L Bullock (Air Ministry] to WSC reminding him, with reference to his wish to fly from Biggin Hill [Kent] to Tidworth [Hampshire] next week, that Monday is a Bank Holiday when the Air Ministry and RAF stations are closed.

Letter from Richard Alexander, aircraft, electrical and motor engineer (1 St Luke's Road, Maidstone, [Kent]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/159/59 and asking him to get "a sportsman" from among his friends to take an interest in his (Alexander's) helicopter idea.

Poster annoucing that an inventor [Richard Alexander of Maidstone, Kent] has devised an advanced helicopter design and needs financial help to develop it. Sent with CHAR 2/159/57-58.

Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC complaining about Conservative candidates standing in the constituencies of right-wing Liberals, announcing that he is going to assess the potential for air routes from the Cape to Cairo and expressing confidence that he will hold his own seat in Bristol.

Letter from WSC to Lord Rothermere, on the size of the German air force. Stating that his figure of 500 aircraft related purely to military aircraft and did not take into account conversion from civil aviation. Hoping that Rothermere would publish his information in the Daily Mail. "Even at my figures, which I gather the Government do not dispute, the prospect is most alarming, and their measures hopelessly inefficient" [carbon].

Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on the radius of action of Germany's new bomber, and on Archambaud's Statement on the French Chamber of Deputies on the number of pilots in Germany.

Letter from Desmond Morton to WSC, on statement by the French Air Minister, Victor Denain, in which he claimed that the Germans had 1100 aircraft capable of immediate use or rapid conversion as service aircraft, and between 3500 and 4000 fully qualified pilots. His own estimate was slightly lower at 1000 military aircraft and over 3000 pilots.

Letter from Francis Bertram, Air Ministry, to WSC, on figures for Pilots' licenses issued in Britain. Stating that 7355 licences had been issued since 1919, and that the increase on the last year had been 1200. There were 2922 current private licences and 512 "public transport". Also stating that the reason why so many pilots did not keep their licence current was entirely financial, as the cost of flying at a club was 2l 10s per hour.