Signed on behalf of the Placet Committee, Geoffrey Butler and F. J. M. Stratton.
Correspondence re G. P. Thomson's receipt of the Smith's Prize, 14-20 March 1916.
Letters from Oscar Browning, Sir Geoffrey Butler, H. M. Butler, Randall Davidson, Lord Durham, George W. E. Russell, G. P. Gooch, J. L. Hammond, R. G. Longman, Charlotte Lilas Ramsay, George Trevelyan and including a letter to Gordon Butler from A. W. R. D.
Concerning the Cambridge Review.
Correspondence to Lady Thomson re her son G. P. Thomson's welfare on leaving England to join the front line in France. He returned to England in February 1915.
B/347 includes a letter from her nephew A.R. Paget re the declaration of war on Germany, and the situation in Japan. Attached to the letter is a press cutting 'Action at Tsingtao: Aeroplanes fly over forts and drop bombs', Japan Daily, 7 September 1914.
B/348 includes correspondence from Rose's brother-in-law F.V. Thomson re her son G.P. Thomson's voluntary departure to join his regiment, 24 September 1914.
A group of 63 letters received by J. R. M. Butler after publication, many from friends of H. M. Butler and J. R. M. Butler as well as members of his extended family. Some of the letters include personal recollections of H. M. Butler. Correspondents include Frances Anne Conybeare, W. J. Conybeare, D. H. S. Cranage, J. A. Cruikshank, Randall Davidson, Albinia Donaldson, T. Field, Edward Graham, Alan Gray, Charles Haddock, John Charles Hill, Sir Arthur Hort, David Macdonald, H. H. Montgomery, G. C. Moore Smith, Edith Wendell Osborne, R. St. John Parry, Godfrey Phillips, Ernest M. Pollock (Lord Hanworth), John Ross, Ronnie Ross, A. E. Shipley, Henry Yates Thompson, George Trevelyan, and P. N. Waggett.
Family correspondents include Sir Cyril K. Butler, Diana Butler, Dorothy Butler, E. M. B. Butler, Sir Geoffrey Butler, George Grey Butler, John Butler, Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, Ralph L. G. Butler, Marie Gray, Antonia Greenwood, Hugh Howson, David Morley-Fletcher, A. Francis Norman-Butler, C. L. Ramsay, G. M. N. Ramsay, Susan E. Ramsay, and Audrey Tower.