Minute from WSC to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], suggesting that information on the landings in the Dardanelles should be sent to the Grand Duke Nicholas [Russian Minister of War]. [Hand-written draft, initialled by WSC].

Letter from [WSC] to Walter Long [later Lord Long] asserting that the conclusions of the report on the Dardanelles will encourage a negative attitude in the Navy and that if it is published so should all other relevant documents. Typescript copy.

Letter from Walter Long [later Lord Long] (Admiralty) to WSC stating that he intends to leave the consideration of the report [on the Dardanelles defences] to his Naval Staff and does not intend to publish it.

Letter from George Lambert [later Lord Lambert] (Ferne, Donhead, Salisbury, [Wiltshire]) to WSC explaining that he wants the biographer of Lord Fisher [earlier Sir John Fisher] to avoid reviving old controversies and advising WSC to be careful about what he publishes. Praises WSC's work at the Admiralty but says he was "headstrong" over the Dardanelles.

Letter from [WSC] (Admiralty) to Sir Edward Grey [later Lord Grey of Fallodon] arguing that Britain should stop trying to placate Turkey and declare support for the Christian Balkan states, particularly Bulgaria. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/114/15-17.

Extract from a deciphered German telegram announcing the alliance with Turkey and ordering the warships 'Goeben' and 'Breslau' to proceed to Constantinople. Sent with CHAR 2/114/20.

Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Daniel of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence on the breaking through of the Dardanelles by the German warships 'Goeben' and 'Breslau' and the sequence of events leading to the entry of Turkey into the war. Sent with CHAR 2/114/20.

Letter from Sir Ian Hamilton (1 Hyde Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC explaining the alterations and omissions he has made to his Gallipoli diary for publication and thanking him for his advice. Asks if WSC would like him to say anything in his address to the 9th Royal Scots regiment.

Letter from Sir George Arthur (23, the Boltons, [London]) to WSC thanking him for what he wrote about his chief and recalling that Lord Kitchener did not want to break off the attack on the Dardanelles [Turkey] because he believed that any semblance of a victory by eastern peoples over western ones would lead to trouble.

Letter from [WSC] to Sir Ian Hamilton thanking him for sending a copy of [Hamilton's Gallipoli diary], noting the good reviews it has received, and approving Hamilton's answer to Sir John Maxwell. Typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to 2nd Lord Esher [earlier Reginald Brett] arguing that the Antwerp expedition had an important effect on where the western front line was established and condemning the "criminal blindness" which prevented the naval and military authorities uniting to make the Dardanelles campaign a success. Argues that the assembly of any sort of army at all to meet Britain's post-war commitments was a notable achievement. Typescript copy.

Preface [?by WSC] to Captain H K A Evans's history of the 4th Hussars discussing the role of the cavalry on the Western Front. Another copy at CHAR 2/110/150-152.

Letter from Sir Ian Hamilton (1 Hyde Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC expressing disappointment at the report of Commodore Francis Mitchell's committee on the Dardanelles defences. Criticises the credentials of the committee's military members, whose attitude prevented the committee from giving sufficient weight to the good evidence that a purely naval attack would have succeeded at an early stage in the campaign.

Letter from [WSC] (113 Eaton Square, [London]) to Aileen, Lady Roberts on the attitude of 1st Lord Roberts [earlier Sir Frederick Roberts] to the sending of the British Expeditionary Force to Antwerp [Belgium]. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Aileen, Lady Roberts (Englemere, Ascot, [Berkshire]) to WSC asking if she can use WSC's letter [CHAR 2/169/86-87] to refute the assertion by Basil Liddell Hart that 1st Lord Roberts [earlier Sir Frederick Roberts] strongly advocated the sending of the British Expeditionary Force to Antwerp [Belgium] in August 1914.

Letter from Aileen, Lady Roberts (Englemere Club, Ascot, [Berkshire]) to WSC asking whether he can confirm her belief that, contrary to the assertion by Basil Liddell Hart, 1st Lord Roberts did not strongly advocate the sending of the British Expeditionary Force to Antwerp [Belgium] in August 1914.

Page from the Times including marked article describing the naval attack in the Dardanelles as "a legitimate war gamble". [Retained in connection with the proceedings against Lord Alfred Douglas arising from his claim that WSC misreported the Battle of Jutland to allow Jewish interests led by Sir Ernest Cassel to profit on the stock market].

Memorandum by Nicolas Pogolski [of Washington DC, United States] "on the causes of the deadlock in the present trench-warfare and the means to end it." Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/71/94-95.

Letter from Charles de Broqueville, Belgian Minister for War, to WSC answering in detail WSC's questions about events in the war in Belgium in October 1914. In French.

Letter published in the Echo Belge from "Commandant X" [Maurice Genard] to "a Citizen of Antwerp" praising the efforts of the Belgian army in October 1914 and explaining why Antwerp was allowed to be bombarded and why part of its garrison was interned in the Netherlands. Typescript translation. Sent with CHAR 2/71/105-106.

Account in French [by Andrew M Gevers] of the fall of Antwerp [Belgium] and the role of WSC in the attempts to save it. Signed carbon copy without first page at CHAR 2/71/124-129.

Letter from Comte de Bresson (7 Rue Charon, Paris, [France]) to WSC enclosing a report on the importance of Greece in the war [see CHAR 2/71/134-147]. Proposes the replacement of the pro-German King Constantine with the second son of King Albert of the Belgians supported by a council composed of Venizelos, Coundouriotis and Danglis, and the formation of a Greek naval force to deal with German submarine attacks. Signed typescript. In French.