Letter from Lewis Harcourt, Colonial Office, to WSC, protesting about the Admiralty communicating directly with the Canadian Government though the High Commission in London, on the storage of fuel at Halifax, Nova Scotia, stating that such communications should go through the Colonial Office.

Minute from the Secretary, Admiralty, to the Private Office to the First Lord [WSC], commenting on letter from Lewis Harcourt, Colonial Office, protesting about the Admiralty's direct negotiation with the Government of Canada over oil storage facilities, rather than working through the Colonial Office.

Letter from Sir Richard McBride, Prime Minister of British Columbia [Canada], to WSC, on the visit of Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] and a Canadian delegation to Britain to discuss defence.

Letter from Sir Hugh Graham, [later 1st Lord Atholstan] (Montreal [Canada]), to WSC, on a reasonable naval policy for Canada; includes a memorandum on possible conditions for Canada's provision of ships for Britain.

Letter from Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] (Ottawa) to WSC on information that can be published from a "secret document" and other confidential material sent to Canada on naval policy.

Letter from Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] (Ottawa) to WSC on Canada's contribution to the naval strength of the Empire.

Cutting from the [Canadian] Standard on Canada's policy towards naval defence, including reports of speeches by Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] and WSC.

Letter from WSC [(Admiralty)], to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], on a letter from Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada], [on Imperial Defence], and WSC's published reply. [Carbon].

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].

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"].

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].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], commenting on a secret paper [not present] on harbour and coast defences [? in Canada], including a suggested Canadian flotilla for the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of Canada, possibilities of war with Japan and the importance of having a dock for a fleet on the Pacific coast of Canada in case of such a war. [Carbon].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada], on making Canada's [emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy] public. [Carbon].

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.

Telegram from J E Poole [news representative in London of the "Montreal Star"] reporting that Sir Thomas White, the former Canadian Finance Minister, has written to the press contradicting WSC on Canada's financial contribution during the war and requesting that WSC make a statement in reply. Typescript copy at CHAR 2/151/63-64.

Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [later Lord Southborough] (Barbon Manor, Kirkby Lonsdale, [Yorkshire]) to WSC on the dispute with Sir Robert Bond [Prime Minister of Newfoundland, later part of Canada], the conduct of the governmnent of Natal [South Africa], and the agreement by King Edward VII to accept the Cullinan Diamond.

Letter from Sir Max Aitken [later Lord Beaverbrook] to WSC offering to arrange a political tour of Canada for him. Asserts that had Joseph Chamberlain gone on such a tour he would have won the country over to Imperial Preference. Points out that his (Aitken's) involvement in big trusts in Canada has made him unpopular among western farmers, but this need not affect WSC on his tour.

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary to the Board of Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene] on the public and secret memoranda for Canada concerning the Canadian emergency contribution of 3 Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy. [Carbon].