Telegram from WSC to the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] asking him to return to England. [Copy].

Letter from John Peck to John Colville [Assistant Private Secretary and Private Secretary to WSC] asking him to confirm that the Foreign Office has been given explicit instructions to arrange the return of [the Duke of Windsor, earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales]. [Manuscript].

Telegram from [?] WSC to Sir Samuel Hoare [British Ambassador to Spain, later 1st Lord Templewood] informing him of travel arrangements to Lisbon [Portugal] made for the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] and Wallis, Duchess of Windsor [earlier Wallis Simpson]; asking him to send particulars of the party to Sir Walford Selby [British Ambassador to Portugal] in Lisbon to arrange a suitable vehicle. [Copy].

Telegram from the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to WSC asking that some role be found for him in the Empire as his recent presence in England has caused only embarrassment. [Copy].

Telegram from Sir Samuel Hoare [British Ambassador to Spain, later 1st Lord Templewood] to WSC asking for a decision on the request of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales]. [Copy].

Telegram from Sir Samuel Hoare [British Ambassador to Spain, later 1st Lord Templewood] to WSC regretting that he was unable to persuade the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] to hasten his departure from Spain. [Copy].

Proposed reply from WSC to the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII and Edward, Prince of Wales] urging him to return to England as arranged.

Letter from David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to WSC, [First Lord of the Admiralty], enclosing copies of his correspondence with Field Marshal 1st Lord Kitchener [Secretary of State for War], on the establishment of a Munitions Committee.

Cabinet Paper submitted by Reginald McKenna [Home Secretary] consisting of a report by Robert Graves, Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories, Gerald Bellhouse, Superintending Inspector, and [William] Sydney Smith, Inspector for Dangerous Trades, on munitions output. [Printed].

Admiralty minute on the need to change the policy of destroyer building, particularly increasing torpedo armament, and the size and speed of German ships relative to British destroyers.

Letter from WSC to Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on the need for special mechanical devices (including tanks) for taking trenches. [carbon].

Letter from Admiral Sir Percy Scott (Murren [Switzerland]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on naval gunnery and the credit due to WSC for improving targeting.

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Navy Estimates, stating that if he were 1st Sea Lord he would guarantee a saving of 4 million pounds for 1914-15 and adding that the Estimates should be the job of the 1st Sea Lord rather than the First Lord. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/21/88 for original].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fired ships. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/52-55 for original].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 3rd Sea Lord [Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore] on the Admiralty decision to take over eight destroyers under construction in private yards, and on the increased number of light cruisers being built. [Carbon copy].

Admiralty telegram from WSC to Major General [Archibald] Paris with instructions for the retrieval of rifles from dead and wounded men "We are literally at the end of our store of charger loading rifles".Carbon typescript.

Notes and aphorisms by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher on subjects including ship design, the Marconi wireless system, ship armour and gun size, the "Super-Swift" and "Super-Active" classes, and submarines. [See CHAR 13/16/13-17 for typescript copies].

Letter from WSC (House of Commons) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the announcement of the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith] regarding the Government's intentions on the reform of the relations between the two Houses of Parliament and the [1909] Budget; and [John] Redmond's "menacing" speech on the position of the Irish [National] Party.

Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: praise for a speech made by the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith]; comments on the inadequacies of a reply by [Arthur] Balfour; the imminent climax of discussions over the [1909] Budget and the veto of the House of Lords; and WSC's opinion that the King's intervention will be required to overcome the constitutional deadlock.