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Telegram from General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] to WSC on shortage of mortars and ammunition.

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Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC with figures for supply of tanks by the United States for Britain and the Soviet Union.

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Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in- Chief, Middle East, to WSC on subjects including a tank encounter to the south of Agedabia [Ajdabiyah, Libya], the accuracy of RAF bombing and the movement of enemy ships from Ras el Aali.

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Telegram from General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander- in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC regarding the latest situation in North Africa, including the premature action at Benghazi [Libya], positions as known on the evening of 26 January, concern over the condition of 1st Armoured division and the conclusion that British armoured forces have failed to compete with the enemy satisfactorily.

Scope and Contents Colonial Office memorandum on security and defence in the Bahamas, relating to protection of the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] following German submarine activity in Caribbean; with telegrams between the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Lord Cranborne, later 5th Lord Salisbury], Windsor, the Foreign Office and Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin],...

Scope and Contents Telegram from British Army Staff, Washington [United States] to War Office summarizing a report on protection for the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] and the Bahamas, including aerodrome defences, details of a company of Cameron Highlanders and a Canadian platoon sent to the Bahamas, coast watching, vulnerable points and internal security; also includes correspondence between Lord Cranborne [Secretary of...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between the Foreign Office, Lord Halifax [British Ambassador to the United States, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin], Lord Cranborne [Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 5th Lord Salisbury], WSC and the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] concerning telegrams from Windsor to Cranborne and Halifax, requesting leave to visit New York and head a Trade Delegation to Washington; includes...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between WSC, Lord Cranborne [Secretary of State for the Colonies, later 5th Lord Salisbury], "A E" [Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon], Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] and "C R A" [Clement Attlee, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs] on a letter from the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to WSC requesting transfer from the Bahamas, preferably to...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] and the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Lord Cranborne, later 5th Lord Salisbury] on Windsor's proposed visit to the United States and proposed trade delegation; includes Cranborne's approval of the delegation, but not of Windsor's intention to head it, and concern that the United States might not have been consulted. [See also CHAR...

Scope and Contents Correspondence between Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] and WSC on the difficulty of the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] becoming Governor of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; includes note from "C R A" [Clement Attlee, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs], suggesting Geoffrey Shakespeare [Parliamentary Under- Secretary of State, Dominions Office] for the [?] Governorship of...

Scope and Contents Letter [with copy] from the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to WSC requesting royal rank to be granted to Wallis, Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson] in the New Year's Honours List, and also referring to the death of [George, Duke of Kent] and racial disturbances in the Bahamas, deploring self-determination for "negro populations" and enquiring about the prospects of being given a more stimulating...

Scope and Contents Correspondence (mainly December 1942) between the Duke of Windsor [Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahamas, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] and the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Lord Cranborne, later 5th Lord Salisbury] surrounding Windsor's visit to Florida [United States]; also includes covering correspondence between Ruth Malleson, Private Secretary, Colonial Office, John Martin [Private Secretary to WSC], John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC],...

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Letter and report from Peregrine Churchill to WSC on a meeting with Sir Stafford Cripps [Minister of Aircraft Production] about the photographic projection of engineering designs direct onto templates for aircraft construction; with acknowledgement by John Peck [Assistant Private Secretary to WSC].

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, March 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include: matters concerning the command structure, including...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, April 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff.Subjects covered by the minutes include: the Japanese threat to the Falkland Islands; discussion of operation "Ironclad" [code name for British occupation of Diego Suarez, Madagascar]; the British naval...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, May 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence].Subjects covered by the minutes include: aircraft production; bombing policy; operation "Ironclad" in Madagascar; the availability of ammunition for the Home Guard; naval operations in the Indian Ocean;...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, June 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; the Chiefs of Staff; members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the minutes include: discussion of proposed operations against Germany in northern Norway ("Jupiter"), Spitsbergen ("Jackpot") and France...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, July and August 1942. Some written by WSC when in the Middle East.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet].Subjects covered by the...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, September 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; Major-General Leslie Hollis [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; the Chiefs of Staff; Colonel John Bevan [Head of the London Controlling Section]; Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Moore [Vice Chief of the Naval Staff]; Air Chief Marshal Arthur Harris [Commander in Chief Bomber...

Scope and Contents Prime Minister's printed personal minutes, December 1942.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (annotated with additional printed information) to: members of the Cabinet and other government ministers; the Chiefs of Staff; Director of Movements [War Office, General Noel Holmes]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence]; Colonel Ian Jacob [Military Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet]; Chief Whip [James Stuart].Subjects covered by the minutes include:...

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Telegram from General Henry Arnold [Chief of the United States Air Corps] to WSC blaming division of responsibility for underproduction by assembly points at Takoradi [Ghana]. With accompanying letters of 11 May 1941 indicating that WSC replied and that Arnold's message and WSC's reply were forwarded by WSC's Private Office to the Foreign Office and Buckingham Palace.

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC on tank offensive planned for Sollum area [Egypt]; and the balance of attacking Iraqi Army whilst not alienating Iraqi people.

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Telegram from WSC to General Henry Arnold [Chief of the United States Air Corps] thanking him for information on problems with aircraft assembly at Takoradi [Ghana] and repying to the points raised.

Scope and Contents Telegram from WSC to General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] stating that he does not object to Wavell going to Basra to meet Commander-in-Chief, India [General Sir Claude Auchinleck] but presumes that Wavell is personally making sure that the contents of "Tiger" [Codename for operation to pass merchant ships through Mediterranean] are placed at the hands of troops at the earliest moment, and citing 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians Chapter VI Verse 2. Asks Wavell whether...

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, Middle East] to WSC: Reports that tanks have been sent to join General William Gott's forces in attacking Sollum area [Egypt] without waiting for "Tiger" [codename for operation to pass merchant ships through Mediterranean]; states that securing Baghdad [Iraq] will be difficult as Iraqis have flooded roads and German airforce is in vicinity.