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Letter from Knight, Frank and Rutley, Estate Agents, London, to WSC, asking if he still wished to put Chartwell [Kent] up for sale, as they had an interested client, Mr Mourayieff.

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Letter from Charles Goodwin, Architect (Cranbrook, Kent), to CSC, on plans of Chartwell.

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Letter from Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to Maryott Whyte, on an estimate from Hammond and Hussey Limited, for a long ladder for use at Chartwell [Kent] in case of incendiary bombs.

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Letter from Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee, returning agricultural forms uncompleted as WSC had no land under cultivation at Chartwell, only permanent pastures and woodlands. [Carbon].

Scope and Contents Letter from McKenna & Co., Solicitors, London, to Nicholl, Manisty & Co., Solicitors, London, on account from Jackson and Boyce Ltd for work at Morpeth Mansions, stating that they felt that any further meetings between Jackson & Boyce and Charles Goodwin [WSC's architect] would be "an absolute waste of time", and that although they could not agree to the matter being referred to an independent architect, they would have no objection to the matter being referred to a "Master"...

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Letter from Elizabeth Layton, Assistant Personal Secretary to WSC, to R G Noakes, Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee, acknowledging coupons for an issue of animal feed.

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Note by WSC on grazing at Chartwell [Kent], confirming that the new tenant of Chartwell Farm, R J Marnham could have any grazing not required for the heifers, the pony or the horse, on payment. [Carbon].

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Letter from C R Bailey, District Technical Officer, Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee to WSC, with a report on Chartwell [Kent] that the ploughing of part of WSC's park for food production was not a success, recommending that the land should be cultivated in the spring, and then sown to permanent pasture, which could then be leased to a neighbouring farmer for grazing. [Copy].

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Letter from Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] to Maryott Whyte, on payment of 12 pounds from Kent War Agricultural Executive Committee for putting 6 acres of grassland at Chartwell under the plough, asking if payment should be split with H J Pilbrow, who had done the ploughing. [Carbon].

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Letter from Maryott Whyte to CSC, on ploughing of pasture at Chartwell [Kent] for cultivation, particularly the unfavourable reaction of A E Hill, the Head Gardener, also on arrangements for accommodation of WSC's secretaries during weekends at Chartwell.

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Letter from Maryott Whyte to Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC], sending a form relating to a claim for a Government grant for ploughing up pasture at Chartwell [Kent], for WSC's signature, also on arrangements for WSC's visit to Chartwell.

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Letter from Grace Hamblin [Private Secretary to CSC] to A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), accepting an estimate for installation of a Permutit water softener at Chartwell, at 243l 2s. [Carbon].

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Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), to CSC, with an estimate for the purchase and installation of a water softener at Chartwell, 243l 2s, with printed diagram.

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Letter from [Grace Hamblin, Private Secretary to CSC] to A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), on their offer of a Permutit Water Softener for Chartwell, stating that WSC and CSC were unable to accept such a costly gift, but that they would be interested in purchasing a softener. [Carbon].

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Letter from Henry Osborne, Nicholl, Manisty, Few and Company, Solicitors, to Kathleen Hill [Secretary to WSC] on a request from R J Marnham, the tenant of Chartwell Farm [Kent], for a copy of the Quarter Sessions order diverting the footpath on the estate.

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Letter from CSC to Howard Robertson [of Stanley Hall and Easton and Robertson, Chartered Architects], on building work at Chartwell [Kent], stating that she preferred his scheme in which the kitchen was built out besides the staff sitting room, asking him to visit the house with her in August. [Carbon].

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Letter from CSC to Howard Robertson [of Stanley Hall and Easton and Robertson, Chartered Architects], on plans for building work at Chartwell [Kent], stating that she had abandoned her idea of building out the domestic offices, but that she wished to improve one of the most "horrific" features of the house, the gloomy basement passage running behind the Servants Hall and wine cellar.

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Letter from Howard Robinson, of Stanley Hall and Easton and Robertson, Chartered Architects, to CSC, on work at Chartwell [Kent] to increase comfort and convenience in running the house.

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Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]) to CSC, with an estimate for removing the existing hot water apparatus from the Nursery Wing at Chartwell, at 43 pounds.

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Letter from Sevenoaks and District Electricity Company Limited, to CSC, on the cooker and water heater at Jackson's Cottage, Chartwell [Kent].

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Specification for the installation of electric heating in WSC's Clothes Room, Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s Room and the New Bathroom in the Nursery Kitchen [Chartwell, Kent].

Scope and Contents Letter from CSC to A W Southon and Sons, [Builders, Edenbridge, Kent], on alterations to Chartwell: the caretaker couple were to have Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s former bedroom (Tower Room) as their sitting room, with the cock-loft as their kitchen and the room next to the cock-loft as their bedroom, and a larder on the roof outside the cock-loft; CSC's visiting staff were to have the west bay fronted room as their sitting room, and the room next to that was to be the Cook's...

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Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), to CSC, with an estimate for work at Chartwell: painting Horatia Seymour's garage doors, 4l 16s, painting the outside of [the chauffeur's] cottage, 5l 8s, and installing a stove in the kitchen [of CSC's own cottage, for Maryott Whyte], 23 pounds.

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Letter from Grace Hamblin [Private Secretary to CSC] to A W Southon and Sons [Builders, Edenbridge, Kent] asking for estimates for work at Chartwell; painting the iron door of Horatia Seymour's garage, painting the outside of the chauffeur's cottage, and replacement of a cooking stove in CSC's own cottage [for Maryott Whyte] with an open fireplace. [Carbon].

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Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]) to Maryott Whyte, on repairs to the dining room floor of Chartwell Cottage.