A file of letters and memoranda from the papers of Sir Vincent Caillard, Financial Director of Vickers Ltd, recording the activities of the arms dealer Basil Zaharoff on behalf of Britain. Documents include a letter recording a meeting with the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, at which he discussed the international situation and the possibility of making peace with Turkey; reports of meetings between Zaharoff and Abdul Kerim, representing Enver Pasha, about the present state of Turkey, and the possibility of Turkey making a separate peace; letters recording doubts within the British government about this venture, and its eventual failure; arrangements for the transfer of money from Britain to the renegade Turks; letters reporting Turkish strategic plans in Mesopotamia; press cuttings about French and Russian involvement in Greece, and Turkish diplomacy; and discussions of decorations for Zaharoff, and his endowment of a university chair in aeronautics.