Letter from Karl Ponnow (Pohannesgat, Stockholm [Sweden]) to Lord Randolph Churchill expressing sympathy on his illness and recommending a cure using nitric acid for diseases of the chest.

Minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on army ammunition requirements, Royal Ordnance Filling Factories (referring to "D.C.(S) (41) 99"), the petrol ration, and repealing the medicine duties. [Copies; given running numbers 318B, 318C, 319A, and 319].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on hospital accommodation at the Harwich Naval Base [Essex], proposing to extend the hospital accommodation at the Boy's Training Establishment, HMS Ganges, at Shotley [Suffolk], across the Stour Estuary. [Carbon copy].

Minute from Surgeon-Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur May, Director-General, Medical Department, Admiralty, to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the recruitment and appointment of naval medical officers on short service commissions. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Director-General, Medical Department, Admiralty [Surgeon-Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur May], proposing the division of the Royal Naval Medical Service into two divisions, Permanent and Temporary, with temporary Medical Officers recruited on short service commissions. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the transportation of casualties [in the Royal Naval Brigade]. [Typescript copy].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 2nd Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], and the Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], on provision of medical facilities in Harwich [Essex]. [Carbon].

Letter from F.E. Lawson-[ ] to WSC, on reform of the Army Medical Department.

Letter from Frank Howard to WSC, enclosing notes on rules and regulations governing medical and physical examination of candidates for the Army.

Minutes [from 1st Lord Cherwell, earlier F A Lindemann, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a pilot surplus and the need to increase heavy bomber production, the U-boat position at 28 June according to the Admiralty album, food imports (referring to "W.P.(R) (41) 44"), and medicine duties. [Copies; given running numbers 329, 330, 331, and 332].

Page from a supplement to the British Medical Journal: article on the anxiety about the future of the pensions of officers of the Indian Medical Service under the Government's proposed constitutional reforms. Sent with CHAR 2/194/119.

Letter from Gertrude Bidwell (Abergavenny [Monmouthshire, Wales]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], complaining about the treatment of retired naval Medical Officers who were recalled in August 1914, particularly her husband. Includes notes between Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] and Surgeon-Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur May [Director-General, Royal Navy Medical Department] on cases of retired Fleet Surgeons.