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Letter from Brig F F Worthington, Commander, 1 Canadian Army Tank Brigade to Stern returning a number of books loaned to him during a visit to the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, in response to a request from Stern contained in a letterof 9 Jan 1942. 1p

Letter from Brig F F Worthington, Commander, 1 Canadian Army Tank Brigade to Stern, informing him that he had recommended that a representative of the Canadian Ministry of Supply contact Stern. 1p

Letter from Brig Arthur George Kenchington, War Office to Stern, relating to the enclosure of notes on the meetings of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply by Armoured Fighting Vehicles Branch, General Headquarters. 1p

Letter from Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, War Office, to Sir (William) Graham Greene, Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, relating to the decision of the military representatives of the Supreme War Council to refer questions of the allocation of tanks amongst the Allies to the Inter-Allied Tank Committee. 1p

Letter from Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, War Office, to Sir (William) Graham Greene, Secretary, Ministry of Munitions, relating to the holding by the Army Council of a conference on tanks policy chaired by the Deputy Chief of the Imperial General Staff (Maj Gen Charles Harington Harington) on 26 Jun 1918, at which it was thought that the Ministry of Munitions should be represented. 1p

Letter from Bertram Blakiston Cubitt, the War Office, to Sir (William) Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary, the Admiralty, requesting that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty convey the thanks of the Army Council to Lt Walter Gordon Wilson, Royal Naval Air Service, and others, for their work on the design and construction of the tank. 1p

Letter from B O Jenkins, British War Mission to the United States of America, to Capt Norman Edward Holden, Deputy Comissioner, Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, on having a representative for the Mechanical Warfare, (Overseas and Allies) Department, Ministry of Munitions, in the US. 1p

Letter from André Colaneri, General Secretary, Fondation Garton, to Stern, requesting an appointment. 1p

Letter from A M M Durrant, Directorate of Tank Design, Ministry of Supply [Albert Arthur Molteno Durrant, 1899-1984], to Stern relating to a visit made by Stern and other representatives of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply, to the Experimental Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire, when they had been unable to see an A12 (Infantry Tank Mark II) in operation. 1p

Letter from A Watson, Ministry of Supply, to Stern informing him of the proposal of the Rt Hon Edward Leslie Burgin, Minister of Supply, to appoint him Chairman of a small technical committeee to consider special vehicular development. 1p

Letter from A Matthews, Assistant Managing Director, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to the Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, London, in response to their letter of 7 Jan 1940 requesting on behalf of the French War Office the supply of ten sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick, on the recommendation of the Ministry of Supply, indicating that the company intended to refer the request to the Ministry of Supply. 1p

Letter from A Matthews, Assistant Managing Director, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, Sheffield, Yorkshire to Stern, asking for confirmation that the company was to deal with the request of the French Mission du Ministère de l'Armement, on behalf of the French War Office, for sample tank armour plates, cemented and homogeneous, of 40 millimetres to 100 millimetres thick, in view of the fact that compliance would reduce the amount of assistance the company could give to the Ministry of Supply. 1p

Letter from A J Merson to Stern, complaining about his treatment by Frederick Thomas Hopkinson, Controller of the Allied Tank Factory at Neuvy-Pailloux, Châteauroux, France. 2p

Book entitled Les chars d'assaut. Leur création et leur rôle pendant la guerre 1915-1918, by French Capt L Dutil (Berger-Levrault, Nancy, Paris, Strasbourg, France, 1919).

Magazine entitled L'Armée la Nation, number 11, 1 Nov 1959 (the Belgian official defence journal), forwarded with a letter from Sir Basil Liddell Hart to Stern of 10 Nov 1959, pointing out an article on the history of the Royal Tank Regiment.

Letter from A Leisy to Stern inviting him to lunch with French Gen Jean Baptiste Estienne, Commander, French Tank Corps 13 Jul 1917. 1p

Invitation to Stern to dine with J L Breton, French Under Secretary of State for Inventions, Ministry of Munitions, at the Ritz Hotel, Paris, France. 1p

Card from A Leisy to Stern inviting him to dine with J L Breton, French Under Secretary of State for Inventions, Ministry of Munitions. 1p

Instruction from Wg Cdr Frederick Lewis Maitland Boothby, Inspecting Commander, Armoured Car Division, Royal Naval Air Service, to Maj Thomas Gerard Hetherington, Transport Officer, Armoured Car Division, Royal Naval Air Service, Stern and others placing Lt Walter Gordon Wilson, Royal Naval Air Service, in charge of the Bullock Caterpillar tractors at Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire and authorising Lt Cdr R W McGrath, officer commanding 20 Squadron, Royal Naval Air Service to place the necessary men at his disposal. 1p

Instruction from Wg Cdr Frederick Lewis Maitland Boothby, Inspecting Commander, Armoured Car Division, Royal Naval Air Service, to Maj Thomas Gerard Hetherington, Transport Officer, Armoured Car Division, Royal Naval Air Service, Stern and others, emphasising that all responsibility for armoured cars and landships (tanks) lay with him. 2pp