Letter from J A Webster (Board of Trade) to Edward Marsh enclosing a memorandum on the shipping laws to help him answer a letter from the Hull and District Junior Liberal Association [see CHAR 2/46/114]. Signed and annotated typescript.

Letter from Gilbert Smith, chairman of the Hull and District Junior Liberal Association (Paragon Chambers, Jameson Street, [Hull, Yorkshire]) to WSC reporting the complaint by Havelock Wilson that British seamen are suffering because the shipping laws governing the composition of crews are not being properly enforced and asking WSC whether Wilson has correctly represented his views on the subject. Signed typescript. 2 pieces.

Letter from [Edward Marsh] to Gilbert Smith [chairman of the Hull and District Junior Liberal Association] answering the complaint of Havelock Wilson that British seamen are suffering because the shipping laws governing the composition of crews are not being properly enforced. Typescript copy.

Memorandum [by J A Webster of the Board of Trade] answering the complaint of Havelock Wilson that British seamen are suffering because the shipping laws governing the composition of crews are not being properly enforced. Annotated typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/46/108.

Letter from Louis Brennan (Brennan Factory, Gillingham, Kent] to WSC (Home Office) on his work to produce improved designs for the construction of his [monorail] cars in Germany. Signed typescript.

Letter from Sir Bindon Blood (Dartmouth House, 2 Queen Anne's Gate, [London]) to WSC congratulating him on his successful speech in Belfast [Ulster] and enclosing a memorandum and correspondence on the Trans-Persia [Iran] railway scheme [not present].

Cutting from the "Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury" on the forthcoming discussion at the conference of the Royal Economic Society on railway nationalisation and the financial relations of Great Britain and Ireland.

Letter from Major E Booth (British Expeditionary Force) to WSC endorsing his remarks [in his speech in the House of Commons on the supplementary vote of credit] on the rifle and ration strength of army battalions and advocating a reduction in the strength of the ASC and an examination of the question of horse and car transport in the Army.

Pamphlet: Particulars concerning the Bachelet Railway Company Sent with CHAR 2/65/30.

Cutting from the Daily Mail: editorial urging that the forthcoming National Register should ensure that there are enough workers in the transport and telecommunications industries.

Letter from George Townsend Warner to WSC, asking him to help to oppose extension of tramways in Harrow-on-the-Hill [Middlesex] [annotated by WSC, agreeing to help if the matter came before Parliament].

Letter from William Landon, Sale Ratepayers' Association, to WSC, enclosing copy of electoral address for Sale Urban District Council Election, opposing sale of the tramways to a "Yankee syndicate".

Letter from H H Stockfield (Green Light Club Incorporated, New York [United States]), to WSC, asking if he would be willing to support his campaign for greater safety in all walks of life, particularly in motor vehicles, with a copy of magazine "Green Light", Volume 2 No 6.

Map of the United States issued by the Union Pacific System, with Union Pacific railroads marked in red.

London traffic: printed confidential memorandum for the Cabinet by David Lloyd George considering the means of dealing administratively with some of the problems identified in the report of the Royal Commission on the Means of Locomotion and Transport in Greater London. 5, [1p].

Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley] (India Office) to WSC on government funding [for Louis Brennan's gyroscopic monorail system].

Letter from Louis Brennan (Woodland, Gillingham, Kent) to WSC announcing that the India Office have agreed to grant him (Brennan) £5000 and that the War Office will give him the use of the torpedo factory and other facilities for the development of his monorail system.

Letter from John Morley [later Lord Morley (India Office) to WSC enjoining secrecy [? about the grant to Louis Brennan for his monorail system].

Telegram from Alfred Jones (Liverpool) to WSC congratulating him on his recent remarks about monopolies and reporting that he (Jones) is about to go to Manchester to meet Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and to discuss policy on the railways and cotton-growing.

Cuttings from The Friend [Orange River Colony, later Orange Free State, South Africa]: resignation of Mr Hichens, the former Colonial Treasurer, supposedly over the national railway policy of the Transvaal and its implications for relations between the South African colonies.

Telegram from WSC to Anthony Eden [later Lord Avon, Foreign Secretary] (Washington [United States]) marked "Personal and Top Secret" arguing for the boundaries of the French zone of occupation in Germany to be drawn "so as to ensure a wide corridor between the boundaries of France and Russia" and so that railway communication can run directly from the British to the United States zone. Despatched on 19 April.

Letter from Sir Walter Citrine [later Lord Citrine, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress] to Sir Archibald Sinclair [later Lord Thurso, Secretary of State for Air] expressing his appreciation for the German Goose used by himself and his two colleagues for their visit to Paris [France] [typescript copy].

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.

Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the Board of Directors of the London and North Eastern Railway Company, (Secretary's Office, Marylebone Station [London]) containing a resolution congratulating WSC on his war leadership signed by Chairman Sir Ronald Matthews.