Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: discussion of the Colonial Office estimates; the statement on British policy in Somaliland [later Somalia] made by WSC and his opinion of British withdrawal to the Somaliland coast.

Letter from WSC (Home Office) to King Edward VII describing events in the House of Commons including: the circumstances of the evacuation of Somaliland [later Somalia] to the coast and the adjournment of the House of Commons for the holidays.

Report by Reuters on WSC's speech in the House of Commons on the resignation of three Sea Lords, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson [1st Sea Lord], Admiral Sir George Egerton [2nd Sea Lord] and Rear Admiral Charles Madden [4th Sea Lord]; includes covering letter from [? Alexander Murray, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, later 1st Lord Murray of Elibank] (12 Downing Street) to WSC, on the advantages of transmitting such speeches to the Colonies. [Duplicated typescript].

Letter from Rear-Admiral Herbert King-Hall, Commander- in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope [South Africa] to WSC, on the defenceless state of St Helena.

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand] on the naval defence of New Zealand.

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [? Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], sending a corrected copy of a public memorandum on Canadian defence, asking for comments. [Carbon].

2 copies of minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Secretary, Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], asking him to bring the memorandum [on Imperial defence for the Canadian Government] before the Board of Admiralty. WSC gives the text of a minute to be read to the Board if no agreement is reached on the memorandum, and gives details of appendices to the memorandum. [Carbon].

Letter from Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] (Colonial Office), to WSC, asking if it would be possible for HMS Cumberland, with Prince Albert [later King George VI] aboard, to visit Grenada and St Vincent, enclosing a copy of a telegram from Sir James Sadler, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Windward Islands, describing the success of the ship's visit to St Lucia.

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the secret Canadian Memorandum [on Imperial Defence], stating that he found it difficult to understand why he received little support from his two principal naval colleagues [1st Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman, and 2nd Sea Lord, Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and the Chief of Staff [? Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge]. [Carbon, annotated "not sent"].

Letter from Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe, [Admiral Commanding China Station] (HMS Minotaur, Hong Kong) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with an account of his visit to the French colony at Saigon [later Vietnam], arrangements for joint British and French action against Germany in Far Eastern waters in case of war, pay levels and the problems of transferring officers from merchant shipping to the Navy.

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on alterations to the Canadian naval memorandum, and its dispatch to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] via Lewis Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonies. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)] to [?] Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] [or to Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary] on sending the memorandum on Canadian emergency contribution to the Royal Navy of 3 Dreadnoughts to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Carbon, with hand-written annotations].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada], enclosing memoranda [not present, on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the Secretary, Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], on sending memoranda [on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy] to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [? Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary] on memoranda [on Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty [Thomas Macnamara], replying to Macnamara's comments [not present] on [Canada's emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy]. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to [? Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada], on the shipbuilding programme and the provision of Canadian ships to help in the defence of the Empire. [Carbon].

Letter from James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on New Zealand's naval policy. [Printed].

Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] agreeing to become [Secretary of State for Colonies] on condition that he be given the means and the power to deal with the difficult situation in the Middle East, and enclosing detailed notes on the arrangements which he deems necessary [see CHAR 2/114/3-4]. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.

Letter from [WSC] (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] on preparations for his journey to the Middle East, Sir James Stevenson helping WSC on colonial affairs as a peer in the House of Lords, and the Duke of Sutherland being the formal representative of the Colonial Office in the House of Lords. Typescript copy.

Letter from W H Himbury, general manager of the British Cotton Growing Association (333-350, The Royal Exchange, Manchester) to WSC expressing delight that WSC could become Colonial Secretary because as Under-Secretary he had done much to promote cotton growing and other industries, for instance by being responsible for the construction of the Northern Nigerian Railway [Africa].