Minute from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], on the actions to be followed by the Navy during the threatened coal strike. [Typescript copy, with address to 1st Sea Lord struck through].

Minute from [Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, 1st Sea Lord] to WSC, on coaling arrangements for the Navy during the threatened coal strike.

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Director of the Intelligence Division, Admiralty [Rear-Admiral Alexander Bethell], asking for comment on a letter from "Captain" Tupper, one of the most violent and competent of the strike leaders in the ports in 1912, who had written to WSC about espionage in the ports. WSC asks Bethell to meet Tupper and not to hand him over to Commander Mansfield Cumming [of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6]. [Carbon].

Letter from an unknown correspondent to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on disruption of work in the coal mines, and a statement made on the issue by Thomas Macnamara [Financial Secretary to the Admiralty].

Letter from WSC to an unknown correspondent on a statement by Thomas Macnamara [Financial Secretary to the Admiralty], on disruption of work in the coal mines. [Carbon].

Admiralty note and minute by Sir Frederick Black [Director of Navy Contracts] on disruption of work in the coal mines.

Letter from Sir Arthur Markham [MP for Mansfield, Nottinghamshire] (Beachborough Park, Shorncliffe [Kent]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the labour dispute in the Welsh coal mines, acknowledging that WSC did not wish him to say anything more on the subject, but pointing out that [? the Nottinghamshire mines] were selling coal to the Admiralty at practically cost prices.

Letter from Clare Sheridan (1 Rue Bonapart, [Paris, France]) to WSC asking him to try to get her a job writing letters for the press on the situation in France, affirming her commitment to furthering Anglo-French relations, referring to strikes and tension in France and reporting that 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] hates women and has refused to let her do his bust.

Letter from Charles Masterman (Hotel Restaurant Cavalletto, Venice, [Italy]) to [WSC] on the gravity of the unemployment situation and the limited ability of John Burns [President of the Local Government Board] to tackle the problem through Distress Committees. Sees strikes in Lancashire as obstacles to the provision of relief work and the operation of labour exchanges and calls for bold Government action. Illustration of hotel in letter-head.

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] urging that the Government should not introduce a bill which, whilst coercing the coal mine owners, does not satisfy the miners or give the Government the necessary powers to end the strike. Two drafts in the hand of Edward Marsh, both annotated: "not sent".

Letter from R G Hickling (10 Davey Place, Norwich, [Norfolk]) to WSC advising him to take advantage of the imminent favourable astrological conditions for the settlement of the dock strike.

Letter from R G Hickling (79 Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]) to WSC on the influence of astrological conditions on the search for a settlement of the Balkans question. Also refers to the settlement of the coal strike.

Letter from R G Hickling (79 Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]) to WSC on the effect of astrological conditions on the search for a settlement of the Balkans question and on the settlement of the rail strike in 1911.

Letter from R G Hickling (79 Surrey Street, Norwich, [Norfolk]) to WSC commenting on the settlement of the dock strike and giving advice about the best astrological conditions for actions such as an address in Canada or the launching of a battle ship. Annotated with comment by WSC about the accuracy of Hickling's prediction about the ending of the dock strike.

Cutting from the Manchester Courier, article on the Trades Disputes Bill, containing plea for peaceful picketing by G.D. Kelley, Secretary, Manchester and Salford Trades and Labour Council.

Letter from the Cotton Employers' Parliamentary Association to WSC, enclosing pamphlet, The Cotton Trade: Trades Unions and Strikes, by Robert W. Williamson, opposing the Trades Disputes Bill.

Letter from Admiral Sir John Fisher [later Lord Fisher] (Admiralty) to WSC urging that British sailors should not be sent inland to deal with the strikes and riots in the sugar cane fields of St Lucia [West Indies] and enclosing "a very secret paper.".

Letter from Henry Massingham (the Nation, 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London) to WSC explaining that he has not been fully superintending the Nation due to illness and giving his views on the army's role in the policing of the railway strike.

Letter from Charlotte Knollys [Bedchamber Woman to Queen Alexandra](Studeley Royal, Ripon [Yorkshire]) to Mrs West [Lady Randolph Churchill] enclosing the name of the cabinet maker in charge of the carving school [at Sandringham, Norfolk] and discussing the Queen's travelling difficulties which have been created by industrial action.

Letter from J Murray Clark (Midland Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool) to WSC hoping he will co-operate with Canada and the United States to secure full information on the distribution of "the immense sums of foreign money spend to foment strikes and other troubles in the British Empire and the United States".

Letter from [WSC] to Lord Linlithgow arguing against a snap general election and in favour of a ballot being required before a strike can be considered legal. Carbon typescript copy headed with the instruction that Edward Marsh is to write it out in his own writing.

Letter from Lord Cecil of Chelwood [earlier Lord Robert Cecil] (Treasury Chambers) to WSC suggesting that special constables be recruited to perform ordinary police duties to enable regular police to form "an army of manoeuvre to be sent anywhere where it is necessary".

Resolution supporting the Government passed by a meeting of working women at Grays [Essex]). Sent with CHAR 2/147/87.