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Minute [from ?F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant] to WSC on conclusions about Allied air strengths in comparison with those of Germany.

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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with thoughts on future action relating to Germany, advising against immediate bombing raids, commenting on supplies of artillery and munitions, and offering suggestions for the development of the Navy and Army. [carbon, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

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Letter from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to WSC responding to suggestions for war preparation and discussing European strengths and weaknesses, commenting on the French Air Force. [annotated by WSC].

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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain agreeing on production objectives of 2000 aircraft per month and the need for the Army to be planned on a 50 or 55 division scale. [carbon, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

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Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on issues such as training of territorial troops by deployment to India; the need for more Air Squadrons and the exaggerated emphasis placed on Air Raid Precautions. [typed copy, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

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Letter from WSC to Sir Kingsley Wood, Secretary of State for Air, anticipating a German air attack on aircraft factories [carbon].

Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, October 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: various naval directors; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; the Sea Lords, particularly 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; other senior officers and civil servants.Subjects covered by the...

Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, November 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; the Sea Lords, particularly [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser] and 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound]; various naval directors; Professor [F A] Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] and Major...

Scope and Contents First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, December 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: the Sea Lords, particularly [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser], 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound], and 4th Sea Lord [and Chief of Supplies and Transport, Vice-Admiral Guy Royle]; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain]; [Permanent] Secretary...

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Telegram from Vice-Admiral John De Robeck, Dardanelles, to Admiralty, reporting unsuccessful German air attack on HMS "Ark Royal" [typescript copy].

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Telegram from Vice-Admiral John De Robeck, Dardanelles, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, report of work of the Naval Air Service, praising the work of Commander Charles Samson, and requesting that more aircraft be sent out [typescript copy].

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Letter, annotated, from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] on the removal from office of Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding [Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Fighter Command]. [Carbon].

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Letter from WSC to Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] on an investigation into the production of stabilized bombsights. [Carbon].

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Letter, annotated, from WSC to 1st Lord Simon [Lord Chancellor] asking to borrow Sir John Singleton [Lord Justice Singleton] for an inquiry into the production of stabilized bombsights.

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Letter from King George VI to WSC advising him to reconsider his choice of [1st] Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken] for Aircraft Production in the Air Ministry; feels there will be repercussions, especially in Canada where the Air Training Scheme will take place. [manuscript].

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Letter from WSC to Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, enclosing a reply from 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister of Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken], agreeing with Menzies's proposal that "aircraft capacity should be built up in every Dominion".

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Letter from WSC to the United States Ambassador to Britain [John Winant] thanking him for his letter on diplomatic arrangements surrounding the leasing of air bases on British territory in Newfoundland [later part of Canada], Bermuda and Trinidad to the United States.

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Minute from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty to Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord, suggesting that 20 Midshipmen be transferred to the Naval Air Service "we have drowned 50 doing nothing, and this is a splendid education [handwritten, initialled by WSC, annotated "Concur" by Fisher"].

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Minute by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on German use of "asphyxiating shells" asking for details of masks supplied to the fleet, suggesting that something very simple was required which could be made easily and in large quantities, with replied by various Admiralty Departments.

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Minute by Rear-Admiral Morgan Singer, Director of Naval Ordnance to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty on supply of respirators to the fleet.

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Minute by Sir Arthur May, Medical Diector-General, Admiralty, on respirators supplied to the Fleet.

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Letter from Richard Haldane [later Lord Haldane] (War Office) to WSC reporting that he is going to Aldershot [Hampshire] to examine the airship construction department there, and that he does not think the Government can usefully intervene in the deveopment of [Louis Brennan's] monorail system. States that he is ready to take up WSC's plan of a police territorial brigade.

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Letter from ? Wright (Head Quarters, Ottoman Army, Dehibat [Tunisia] via Nallent, Tripoli, [Libya]) to WSC describing: the excellence and toughness of Arab and Turkish soldiers; the great value of aircraft for reconnaisance; the massacre committed by the Italians.

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Telegram from General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander- in-Chief, India and Burma] to WSC on need for more aeroplanes in India and crew for Burma [later Myanmar]; International Air Force based in Burma should be placed under Wavell's control.

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Telegram from Prime Minister of Australia [Robert Menzies] to WSC asking for projected German moves around Turkey and Libya; also on the failure to provide anticipated strength bomber and fighter squadrons.