The files contain Storrs’s diary for the period from 3 September 1934 to 22 December 1938. Many people are mentioned including Queen Marie of Rumania, King George of Greece, Leo Amery, George Lloyd, Howard Carter, Duff Cooper, Randolph Churchill, Mrs Simpson, Beecham, Brendan Bracken, H. G. Wells, Jack Squire, Nancy Mitford, John Christie, Hilaire Belloc, Jacob Epstein, Evelyn Waugh, Eden, Guedella, Admiral Chatfield, Ramsay MacDonald, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Osbert Sitwell, Maurice Baring, Saudi Crown Prince, Julian Huxley, [?André] Maurois, Nelson Rockefeller, Margot Asquith, Lord Beaverbrook, Chester Beatty, Baruch, King Faruk, Michael Arlen, Somerset Maugham, Max Beerbohm, Kenneth Clark, Liddell Hart, Duchess of York, Andre Simon, T. S. Eliot, Crown Prince of Sweden, H. V. Morton, Aneurin Bevan, Axel Munth, Winston Churchill, Harry Luke, Raymond Mortimer, Violet Bonham-Carter, Rex Whistler, Ted Heath, Oliver Lyttleton, Hector Bolitho, and George Antonius.

The diaries include records of his visit to Italy - including a chance meeting with Ezra Pound, and to Germany in 1935, where he is concerned by the plight of the Jews. There is an account of a further European trip in February 1938, including time in Vienna. There is also an account of his trip to the Balkans, October 1938, and to Bulgaria, Rumania and Germany.

On other trips abroad he visited many European countries and the Middle East. He visited King Abdullah, Prince Muhammad Ali, Rassell Pasha, Nokr shi Pasha, Aziz el-Masri, Aga Khan.

He visited the Balkans and Poland and was received by Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, King Boris and King Carol. He did a report on his interview with King Boris for the British Ambassador and this is included.

He was also adopted as Conservative candidate for the London County Council during the period the diaries cover, being elected on 4 March 1937. There are also notes concerning the writing of 'Orientations' and of his lectures on T. E. Lawrence.