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.

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.

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].

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.

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].

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.

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].

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.

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.

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.

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

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].

Letter from H J Pilbrow to WSC, declining offer to share cesspool at Chartwell, advising him to build his new one above the pigsties and high enough on the bank so that the bottom was below the lake.

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.

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].

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

Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders, (Edenbridge [Kent]), with an estimate for repairs to the dining room floor at Chartwell Cottage, at 30 pounds.

Letter from Grace Hamblin [Private Secretary to CSC] to A W Southon [and Sons, Builder], asking if there was a spare washbasin at Chartwell [Kent], as CSC wished to have one fixed in the new house-maid's cupboard, she was planning not to have any wash stands in the staff bedrooms on the top floor, and did not think that one washbasin in the staff bathroom would be sufficient. [Carbon].

Letter from Grace Hamblin [Private Secretary to CSC] to A W Southon [and Sons, Builder], on CSC's proposed improvements at Chartwell [Kent], particularly arrangement for domestic hot water and the heating of the nursery wing, which was supplied by a separate boiler. She wished that in future it would be better for everything to be harnessed to the main furnaces; her ultimate object was to simplify the heating arrangements. [Carbon].

Estimate from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), for work at Chartwell, fitting a new lavatory basin in the Work Room on the top floor, and fitting a partition between WSC's room and the Maid's Room, for 24l 13s and painting Horatia Seymour's cottage, for 4 pounds.

Estimate from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]), for decorating Mrs Jackson's cottage at Chartwell, for 36l 6s.

Letter from [Grace Hamblin], Private Secretary to CSC, to [Robert Burns], Private Secretary [to the Minister of Supply] requesting a permit for timber for repairing a cottage at Chartwell [Kent] which was full of dry rot, and becoming uninhabitable. [Carbon].

Letter from A W Southon and Sons, Builders (Edenbridge [Kent]) to CSC, reporting on the condition of the cottage occupied by A E Hill [Head Gardener, Chartwell, Kent] which was badly affected by dry rot.