Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC agreeing to advance start date of Torch [codename of the Allied invasion of North West Africa] and the announcement of General Dwight Eisenhower's command [as Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces in North Africa].

Letter from King George VI to WSC congratulating him on the 8th Army's victory in Egypt [at El Alamein]; with reply and envelope.

Letter from WSC to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on appointment of Sir Horace Seymour as British Ambassador to China; reviews the war in the Far East.

Letter from WSC to Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond agreeing that Trincomalee and Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] are in danger.

Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Hankey on a suggested bombing campaign: a matter not "of principle ... but of ... available resources".

Letter from WSC to Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] thanking him for the note on Soviet convoys, stressing the importance of controlling sea communications.

Letters from WSC to General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East] on changes in Middle East command; offers him Iraq and Persia [Iran], with the Tenth Army; General Harold Alexander to command the Middle East and Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery the Eighth Army.

Letter from WSC to General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French] on Allied success in the battle in the Western desert [El Alamein, Egypt].

Letter from WSC to David Robertson explaining that an Anti-U-boat Warfare Committee is considering the need for specialist aircraft to protect shipping.

Letter from WSC to Major-General Noel Holmes [Director of Movements, War Office] congratulating him and his staff on the planning and execution of operation Torch [codename for Allied invasion of North West Africa].

Letter from WSC to Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, challenging the decision by the United States to withdraw Lend-Lease funding for operations Bolero [codename for preparations for the invasion of Normandy, France] and Roundup [codename for the Allied invasion of North West Europe] in favour of Torch [codename for Allied invasion of North West Africa].

Letters from Rear-Admiral Tufton Beamish to WSC enclosing extracts from an account by his son of a journey from Singapore to Sumatra; with reply. [See CHAR 20/53C/290 for further copy of WSC's reply].

Letter from Sir Edward Campbell [Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer] to WSC warning about the danger of Australia and the United States attacking Japan too soon and the efficiency and strength of the Japanese; includes manuscript, typescript copy and WSC's reply.

Cuttings from the Times reporting a speech by Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production [later 1st Lord Chandos] on Anglo-Soviet week, the German onslaught against the Soviet Union and the need to do more to help; with letter of complaint from William Gallacher [with transcript]; includes filing note.

Letter from WSC to Marshal of the Royal Air Force 1st Lord Trenchard thanking him for paper on Bomber Command and defending bombing policy, but suggesting he overstated his case for an overall head of military strategy.

Letter from WSC to Henry Nimmo [Chief Engineering Inspector, Electricity Commission] thanking him for drawing attention to electrical generating stations in Germany as targets for bombing.

Letter from Franklin Roosevelt [President of the United States] to WSC praising Lord Louis Mountbatten [Chief of Combined Operations] following his trip to Hawaii; situation with Japan worsening.

Letter from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] with major points of joint strategy: expansion of shipping convoys against U-boat attack; increase of food imports in 1943; more American troops to Britain; increasing bombing, night bombing and using aircraft against U-boats.