Letter from Arthur Haworth (Normanby, Altrincham, [Cheshire]) to WSC congratulating him on his appointment [as President of the Board of Trade] and reporting the enthusiasm of Liberals in North-West Manchester. Asks WSC to help his friend Spencer Hogg to obtain a puisne judgeship in Jamaica [West Indies] before he (WSC) leaves the Colonial Office.

Letter from Lady Katharine Lyttelton (107 Eaton Square, [London]) to WSC enclosing a letter from Charles Lane Sansom [see CHAR 2/38/14] and asking WSC to ask John Burns about a post for Sansom under the Local Government Board. Refers obliquely to the marriage of her daughter Lucy to Charles Masterman.

Letter from A Henderson (London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Steam Packet Office, Newhaven, Sussex) to CSC asking her and her husband to help him in his application for the post of Docks and Warehouse Manager for the Port of London Authority.

Letter from ? (Poplar Farm, Cold Ash, Newbury, [Berkshire]) to WSC asking him to help a needy ex-soldier obtain the post of Chief Constable of Flintshire [Wales].

Letter from Robert Burns (Drum Rectory, Clones, County Monaghan, [Ireland]) to [? WSC] asking him to use his influence with 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] to secure for Burns the living of Alphamstone [Essex].

Letter from Lord Cromer (36 Wimpole Street, [London]) to Edward Grimwood Mears promising him a knighthood and some salary if he serves as secretary of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/97/1.

Letter from Lord Cromer to Maurice Bonham-Carter [private secretary to Herbert Asquith] requesting that the promise made on behalf of Asquith to grant a knighthood to Edward Grimwood Mears for his work as secretary of the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry and for other services should be honoured by the new government. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/97/1.

Letter from Maurice Bonham-Carter [private secretary to Herbert Asquith] (10 Downing Street) to Lord Cromer promising that Edward Grimwood Mears will receive a knighthood. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/97/1.

Letter from Lady Pembroke (Wilton House, Salisbury, [Wiltshire]) to WSC asking him to put forward the name of "Reggie" [Lord Pembroke] for the post of Lord Steward.

Letter from [WSC] to [Lady Pembroke] on Lord Pembroke's wish to be appointed Lord Steward and the unfairness of the political careers of some young peers being set back because they served in the war. Typescript copy.

Letter from "Sunny" [9th Duke of Marlborough] (Blenheim Palace) to WSC noting that he approves Marlborough's nominations [? connected with the Lord Lieutenancy of Oxfordshire] and inviting WSC and CSC to stay.

Letter from WSC to "Sunny" [9th Duke of Marlborough] agreeing that he is right to hold back some nominations [? connected with the Lord Lieutenancy of Oxfordshire] and accepting his invitation to stay. Typescript copy.

Letter from Sir Robert Lynn (Constitutional Club, Northumberland Avenue, [London]) to WSC complaining about the Prime Minister's failure to appoint him to a post with the Wireless Company.

Letter from [WSC] to [Stanley Baldwin, later Lord Baldwin] recommending Frederick Guest and John Seely [later Lord Mottistone] to the House of Lords. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to Frederick Guest describing how the opposition in the Conservative Party to the granting of Liberal peerages prevents Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] from offering Guest one, advising Guest to join the Conservative Party, where WSC will be able to help him procure a suitable seat, and discussing the arrangements for his (WSC's) tour of Canada, the United States and South America. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Lieutenant-General Sir David Campbell (War Office) to WSC attributing his appointment as Military Secretary to WSC's support and asking him to put in a good word for him to the Secretary of State for War [Sir Laming Worthington-Evans].

Letter from Sir Alan Lascelles (Windsor Castle) [King George VI's Private Secretary] to John Martin [Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary] informing him that King George VI has unofficially approved of the recommendations which he made in the political Honours List and adding that the private letter which he also sent has raised a large issue and that he will contact him on this matter later. Signature in typescript. Copy.

Letter from WSC to Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes [Conservative MP for Portsmouth] marked "Private" stating that he could not offer him a fighting position on account of his age and that he was surprised to hear that Keyes felt he had not been recognised for his services, adding that although he felt he would incur criticism from the armed forces he submitted Keyes name to King George VI for the honour of a peerage. Signature in typescript. Copy.

Letter from WSC to Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander in Chief India] stating that he is pleased that he has accepted "this great task" [Viceroy of India] and that he has submitted his name to King George VI for a peerage which he was confident would be granted and that he would make a public announcement on the 19th June which would also include "that affecting General Auchinleck" [Wavell's replacement] Signed.

Letter from WSC to Sir Thomas Royden informing him that he will take his chairman's name into consideration when preparing his recommendations for the next honours list [Initialled].

Letter from WSC to Sir Basil Brooke [later 1st Lord Brookeborough, PrimeMinister of Northern Ireland and Minister for Commerce and Production] marked "Private and Personal" thanking him for recommending Ernest Cooper [Industrial Adviser to the Government of Northern Ireland] for a Knighthood and explaining that such awards are usually confined to thehalf yearly lists but adding that he would bear this recommendation in mind when the time came Signed.

Letter from WSC to Professor George Clark [Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College] asking his permission to submit his name to King George VI for the position of Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University.