Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he has inquired into Air Vice-Marshal Sir Aubrey Ellwood's statement on U-boats [which Roosevelt had questioned] and that he is satisfied that it was within the limits of previous official announcements; but that future statements should just concentrate on achievements and should not take newspaper or German-broadcast disclosures into account.

Letter from Colonel Hugh Higgon (Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire) (Cuffern, Roch, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire [Wales]) to WSC marked "confidential" requesting that Milford Haven be included in the itinerary of the captured U-Boat visiting the western ports because of its role during the war as a collecting base for convoys. He gives figures for the number of vessels and the tonnage sailed out of the port. Signed typescript.

Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Top Secret" giving details of the number of Canadian troops likely to be repatriated before the end of 1945, and general troopship availability in the Atlantic.

Telegram from WSC [Yalta, Soviet Union] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] marked "From: Argonaut" and "Jason No. 285" passing on the comments of Minister of War Transport [1st Lord Leathers] on [?oil], food and shipping resources.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" giving the suggested text of the February Anti-U-Boat statement, indicating losses and successes. Photocopy.

Telegram from WSC to British Minister in Sweden [Sir Victor Mallet] informing him of his intention to press Sweden to begin mobilisation and to converse with General Dwight Eisenhower [Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in Western Europe, United States Army]; and emphasising the damaging effect of the continued German naval presence in Norway.

Telegram from President Harry Truman to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" giving the proposed submarine [anti-U-boat] statement for April. Copy.

Telegram from Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] to WSC marked "Secret" on the limited transport available for repatriating Canadian troops.

Telegram from WSC to Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] marked "Personal and Top Secret" taking exception to statements about the U-boat war made by General Andrew McNaughton [Commander in Chief Canadian Army]. Photocopy.

Telegram from WSC to Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa marked "Top Secret and Personal" summarising the major operational decisions reached at the Malta and Yalta [Soviet Union] Conferences: on the U-boat War; operations in North West Europe; strategy in the Mediterranean; operations in the Pacific Area and South East Asia Command; estimating dates for the end of the war against Germany and Japan; and explaining the shipping position. Photocopy.

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] (Oban [Argyllshire, Scotland]) on the substitution of internal combustion engines for steam engines in oil tankers. [Carbon].

Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on dealing with ship-owners over the programme for arming merchant shipping, particularly Sir Thomas Sutherland, Chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company [P and O].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of trade. [Incomplete typescript, initialled by WSC].

Letter from Admiral Sir Reginald Custance to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of trade.

Letter from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] sending a memorandum [not present] on British trade protection in time of war. [Carbon].

Minute from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on trade protection, particularly the policy of arming merchant steamers. [Carbon].

Letter from Sir John Brunner, President of the National Liberal Federation (Silverlands, Chertsey [Surrey]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with congratulations on his appeal to Germany to "help England in the endeavour to bring about a reduction in the colossal amount spent by the civilised world in preparations for war"; Brunner states that it will be necessary to give up Britain's claim to capture and destroy private property at sea in time of war for such an appeal to work.

Admiralty memorandum comparing the general course of wages with the wages of merchant seamen for the years 1887-1912.

Letter from Sydney Buxton [President of the Board of Trade] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the need for an Ice Observation Vessel in the North Atlantic, to establish how far it was possible to give timely warnings about the movement of ice, such as caused the Titanic disaster.

Letter from Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe, [Admiral Commanding China Station] (HMS Minotaur, Hong Kong) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with an account of his visit to the French colony at Saigon [later Vietnam], arrangements for joint British and French action against Germany in Far Eastern waters in case of war, pay levels and the problems of transferring officers from merchant shipping to the Navy.

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel, with a copy of a press cutting on the use of oil motors in German shipyards. [Carbon copy].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with congratulations on his speech [in the House of Commons] on the Navy Estimates; Fisher also encourages WSC to continue putting obsolete guns in merchant ships and comments on the bid by the Standard Oil Company for China oil. [Carbon copy; see CHAR 13/21/51-55 for original].

Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on trade protection on and after the outbreak of war. [Typescript, written August 1913, with hand-written revisions, April 1914; see also CHAR 13/26/83-84].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the need for discretion on the subject of supplying ammunition to merchant ships. [Carbon copy].