Miscellaneous letters and memoranda, 1914-1915

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(fol. 1) Comments by Sir Reginald Brade on the royal message to parliament concerning mobilization, 4 Aug. 1914
(fol. 5) Statement on state insurance scheme against war risks made by Lloyd George in the House of Commons, 4 Aug. 1914
(fol. 12) Copies of electoral truce agreements between the parties, and copies of correspondence about them, Aug. 1914-Oct. 1917
(fol. 39) Printed Supplement to the Monthly Navy List, Sept. 1914
(fol. 50) Letters and memoranda about propaganda in neutral countries, Oct.-Dec. 1914
(fol. 80) Memorandum by Winston Churchill on fleet distribution, (?) at the outbreak of the war, Oct. 1914
(fol. 82) Letter and statistical tables from Augustine Birrell giving figures of emigration from Ireland, Oct. 1914
(fol. 86) Minute from Asquith on conveyance of information to the press, Oct. 1914.
(fol. 90) Letter from Herbert Samuel (with enclosures) on the need to announce what measures are being taken against the danger of invasion, Nov. 1914
(fol. 97) Memorandum on War Office contracts; another entitled 'The Contracts Branch and its Functions'; and a third on the new committee on contracts set up later, Nov. 1914 and (2) n.d.
(fol. 125) Letters and printed matter connected with Lord Alfred Douglas's persecution of Asquith apropos the case of Robert Ross, Nov. 1914-Jan. 1916
(fol. 166) Two reports by B.P. Blackett on purchase of war supplies in the United States, Nov. 1914; memorandum by Sir George Paish on economic relations with the United States, n.d., but probably late 1914
(fol. 194) Admiralty minute circulated privately to the press about need for secrecy with regard to the loss of ships, etc., Dec. 1914
(fol. 196) Memorandum by Sir Eric Drummond on food supplies for Belgium, Dec. 1914; also another on trading with the enemy as related to Belgium, n.d.
(fol. 203) Memorandum, signed 'M', on the situation in Austria, Dec. 1914
(fol. 205) Undated sheet of statistics headed 'Cost of War Pensions and Allowances'
(fol. 206) Letters from Sir John French and copies of letters to him in Jan. 1915 from Lord Kitchener and General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, Jan.-May 1915
(fol. 232) Memorandum by Winston Churchill on army organisation, Jan. 1915
(fol. 238) Memorandum by General Sir Douglas Haig, entitled 'Expansion of the British army in the field', Jan. 1915
(fol. 240) A letter from Thomas Gibson Bowles on need for an enquiry into losses at sea, and an unsigned memorandum headed 'Enemy Submarines', Jan.-Feb. 1915
(fol. 245) Memorandum by Walter Runciman on the American Ship Purchase Bill, Feb. 1915