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].

Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, with notes prepared by the Admiralty War Staff and the Hydrographer [Rear-Admiral Herbert Cust (Herbert Purey-Cust)] on the strategical value of the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba [later Tanzania]. [Printed].

Draft Admiralty memorandum on the naval defence of the Empire for presentation to the Canadian Parliament. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum with prints of the correspondence between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, on the naval defence of the Empire, including Canada's contribution. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum with prints of the correspondence between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, on the naval defence of the Empire, particularly the Canadian emergency contribution to the Royal Navy. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum on the naval position of New Zealand. [Printed].

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

Extract from speech by Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] to the Canadian House of Commons on the Canadian Naval Aid Bill. [Printed].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and the Chief of Staff [Sir Henry Jackson], asking them to discuss New Zealand's naval policy with James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand]. [Typescript, initialled].

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.

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.

Letter from Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] stating that the Admiralty should not have provided a ship to convey the Papal Legate [Cardinal Ferrata] from Sicily to Malta for the Eucharistic Conference without consulting himself and the Secretary of State for the Colonies [Lewis Harcourt].

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 Edward Grigg [editorial staff of the Times, later 1st Lord Altrincham] (The Round Table, Piccadilly, London) to James Masterton-Smith, [Private Secretary to WSC] sending an extract from a letter from the Australian correspondent of the Times on Imperial defence.

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to an unidentified [? South African] correspondent, on South Africa's contribution to Imperial Naval Defence. [Carbon copy].

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

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary, Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene] suggesting a general Naval Conference with Dominion representatives in the summer of 1914. [Carbon copy].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval defence of New Zealand and Australia, including the British attitude to Japan. [Carbon copy].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Admiral Sir Henry Jackson], on the naval defence of New Zealand and the necessity of keeping in touch with James Allen [Minister of Defence, New Zealand]. [Carbon copy].

Correspondence between WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] and Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on Imperial naval defence, proposing the formation of an Imperial Squadron of five ships: three Canadian ships with the capital ships New Zealand and Malaya [later part of Malaysia]. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet].

Letter from Gideon Murray, the Master of Elibank (8 Great George Street, Westminster, [London]) to WSC asking if he is correct in inferring from WSC's article in the "Weekly Despatch" that WSC would be prepared to be associated with David Lloyd George in the new alignment of parties, a position which Murray and others could not accept. Congratulates WSC on turning the tables on J H Thomas in his speech on imperial policy.