Catalogue of the Medici Society. Sent with CHAR 2/163/11.

Letter from WSC to Lucien Pissarro thanking him for the gift of his father's picture "Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre", which will be donated to the National Gallery [London].

Letter from Sir Kenneth Clark [Director of the National Gallery] to Anthony Lousada [Ministry of Economic Warfare] explaining that the paintings being exported from Germany to the United States are worth 2.5 million pounds and the only way of frustrating the deal is to ask the dealers, Knoedlers to drop the sale. [Copy] [See also CHAR 20/26/83 ].

Telegram from Benjamin Guinness to Francis Howard suggesting that pictures [sold by Germany] should be pronounced contraband to discourage buyers and possibly attainted after the sale.

Letter from Francis Howard to WSC complaining that the lay-dominated Board of the Tate Gallery is losing pictures to overseas competitors through delaying too long.

Letter from Kenneth Clark [Director of the National Gallery] to Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] about control of contraband pictures; refers him to a letter from Clarke to the Ministry of Economic Warfare [see CHAR 20/26/77 - 78 ] and advises that he does not take Benjamin Guinness's letter too seriously.

Letter from Hugh Gaitskell [Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare] to Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] thanking him for his letter but disparaging Francis Howard's suggestion that they use German marks to buy the pictures, as the Germans are selling works of art purely to get foreign currency.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [Deputy Chairman, Royal Fine Arts Commission] accepting the resignation of the Commission members.

Letter from WSC to 28th Lord Crawford and 11th Lord Balcarres on his appointment as Chairman of the Royal Fine Arts Commission.

Letter from WSC to Christopher Nevinson thanking him for the gift of his painting "Battlefields of Britain" which will hang in the Air Ministry.

Letter from WSC to Sir Edwin Lutyens [President of the Royal Academy] thanking him for the bust of WSC by Sir William Reid Dick presented in the name of the Royal Academy.

Letter from WSC to Christopher Nevinson thanking him for his letter and on his status as a part of England.

Letter from WSC to 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Sir Henry Mond] thanking him for his generosity over the painting of the Battle of Blenheim by Jan van Huchtenburgh.

Letter from WSC to Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] proposing to renew his Trusteeship of the National Gallery.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [Deputy Chairman, Royal Fine Art Commission] thanking him for his help with the Commission, where 28th Lord Crawford [and 11th Lord Balcarres] will take over as Chairman.

Letter from WSC to 28th Lord Crawford and 11th Lord Balcarres inviting him to be Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission.

Letter from WSC to Norman Holden on commissioning an artist, possibly Nicholson [? Ben Nicholson], to reproduce Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] addressing Parliament.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Lee of Fareham asking him to join the new Royal Fine Art Commission with 28th Lord Crawford [and 11th Lord Balcarres] as Chairman, and William Holford, Hubert Worthington and John Maynard Keynes.

Letter from WSC to William Curtis Green accepting his resignation from the Royal Fine Art Commission.

Letters from WSC to Sir [William] Reid Dick and Gerald Kelly accepting their resignation from the Royal Fine Art Commission.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Greene, Master of the Rolls, accepting his refusal to be a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission.

Letter from WSC to James de Rothschild offering him a position on the Board of Trustees of the Wallace Collection.

Letter from WSC to Ronald Tree asking if he would accept nomination to the Board of Trustees of the Wallace Collection.

Letter from Sir Philip Burne-Jones (41 Egerton Terrace [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill in which he apologises for not being able to come and see her as he is suffering from back pain. Illustrated with a self-portrait of him in bed and an illustration of a social occasion.

Letter from Sir Philip Burne-Jones (41 Egerton Terrace [London]) to Lady Randolph Churchill confirming arrangements to meet her. Illustrated with a drawing of a British officer holding up a German soldier with a bayonet and on the dorse an illustration of a mouse.