File C 2. - Cabinet: secretary's notes,

Nos 1-73. Arranged into (i) Nos 1-24. Manuscript notes by the Secretary of Cabinet meetings and Conferences of Ministers; (ii) Nos 25-73. Jottings in Cabinet etc., imprecisely dated; (iii) Nos 25-50. Home Affairs; (iv) Nos 51-59. Foreign Affairs; and (v) Nos 60-73. General and miscellaneous. The notes are by Thomas Jones except for a few by Hankey. Undated documents which could not be placed have been retained in their file position. The names of individuals are not indexed, but a complete list of contents is appended: No. 1. Doodle by Lord Curzon, 12 Jan. 1922; No. 2. Notes on Cabinet (Hankey), May 1922; No. 3. Notes on Commons opinion, 19 May 1922; No. 4. Cabinet 31 (22), 1 June 1922; No. 5. Note on Cabinet / Conference, n.d.; No. 6. Note on Cabinet / Conference, 2 June 1922; Nos 7-8. Notes on Cabinet (Hankey), n.d. [June 1922]; No. 9. Cabinet 35 (22), 16 June 1922; No. 10. Cabinet / Conference, n.d.; No. 11. Cabinet, 12 Aug. 1922; No. 12. Conference, 7 Sept. 1922; No. 13. Draft of message, n.d.; No. 15. Note in Cabinet, Oct. 1923; No. 16. Notes on Ministerial affairs, 25-27 Aug. 1927; No. 17. Note in Cabinet, 11 Nov. 1927; No. 18. Notes of talk with PM, n.d. [1927]; No. 19. Cabinet / Conference, 24 Nov. 1927; No. 20. Cabinet / Conference, 1 Oct. 1928; No. 21. Note on Cabinet, 19 Dec. 1928; No. 22. Note to PM, 21 Jan. 1929; No. 23. Note of Ministerial discussion, 20 Dec. 1929; No. 24. Note to PM, 14 Jan. 1930; Nos 25-50. Cabinet Jottings of imprecise date and provenance, relating to Home Affairs; Nos 51-59. Cabinet Jottings of imprecise date and provenance, relating to Foreign Affairs; Nos 60-73. Cabinet Jottings of imprecise date and provenance, general and miscellaneous; No. 60. Amusing note by Lionel Curtis on use of Welsh by secretary of Uitlanders in Johannesburg after Jameson Raid; No. 68. Reference by Austen Chamberlain to Attwood's 'heresy' of 1830s; No. 69. Apprehensions of Thomas Jones and Edwin Montagu at 'impetuosities' of Winston Churchill; No. 73. Drawing by A. J. Balfour during meeting of War Cabinet, 10 April 1918, while Director of Military Operations was describing progress of German offensive.