Foreign Office telegrams from Russia, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania [Romania], Italy; mainly on Esatern and Western Fronts.

War Office Prints concerning Russia including: Despatches by Colonel Alfred Knox, Military Attache, Petrograd on Armament, Operations around Lodz; the South West Front in the Eastern Theatre; Events in Northern Poland, Mar 1915.

Includes letters from CSC to WSC written while he served on the Western Front. Part A comprises original letters: part B comprises typescript transcripts prepared circa 1945.

Some letters are annotated as answered by WSC.

Letters are from people that WSC knew, and some are from members of the public [not known to WSC].

The letters were in an envelope (present) with a typed and handwritten list on the front of "Letters given to Martin Gilbert by Lady Spencer-Churchill". Four letters are listed, but only the letters listed in type (two) are present. [The letters must have been given to Martin Gilbert sometime between 1962 and 1977].

Letter written from Paris during Churchill's visit to the front, on subjects including: meetings with General [Marie] Emile Fayolle, Commander of the 6th Army and Philippe Pétain, General-in-Chief; the need to replace Sir Francis Bertie [British Ambassador to France]; the inescapable thoughts of carnage and ruin caused by the war, despite the pleasantness of Churchill's trip.

Subjects are WSC leaving the Government and going to France [with the Army], congratulating him on a speech ["Resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty" in the House of Commons, 15 Nov 1915], and asking if he needs any supplies for the "front".

Letter from WSC (Admiralty) to Charles a Court Repington on: arrangements for providing information about the war to the press; the fall of Antwerp [Belgium]; the prospect of a hard struggle on the Western Front. Copy in WSC's hand.

Letter from CSC to WSC, on his return to Belgium after leave in Britain. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/2.

Letter from CSC to WSC, on the Conscription Crisis, the Prime Minister's method of dealing with opposition, and the possibility of publication of the Dardanelles Papers. Typescript transcript at CHAR 1/118B/23-25.

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.