Correspondents include: Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; 1st Lord Baldwin of Bewdley; "Reggie" [Sir Reginald Barnes]; Sir Abe Bailey, commenting on 1st Lord Haldane having been suspected of German sympathies; Sir Bindon Blood; "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken]'; "Mollie" [Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch, earlier Margaret, Lady Dalkeith]; "Peggy" [Margaret, Lady Crewe]; Cecil, Lady Craigavon; Betty, Lady Cranborne [later Lady Salisbury]; Sir Arthur Cory-Wright; Neville Chamberlain; Lord Ivor Churchill; Sir Evan Charteris; "E" [Ethel, Lady Desborough]; Helen, Lady D'Abernon; 17th Lord Derby [earlier Lord Stanley]; Walter Elliot; Maxine Elliott; Sir James Edmonds; Anne, Lady Feversham; Alexander Hardinge [Private Secretary to the King]; Sir James Grigg [Finance Member of the Government of India] on deteriorating relations with the Viceroy's staff, and brewing trouble in India; Sir Harry Goschen; 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Sir Douglas Hogg]; Sir James Hawkey; Sir Maurice Hankey; Frances Horner; "Bertie" [1st Lord Horne of Slamannan]; "Charlie" [7th Lord Londonderry, earlier Lord Castlereagh] on his disapproval of the current foreign policy towards Europe; Sir Roger Keyes; Leonie, Lady Leslie; Frederick Leathers; Pamela, Lady Lytton [earlier Pamela Plowden]; Constance, Lady Leconfield; 1st Lord Wigram [Keeper of the King's Archives] (2); Mary, Duchess of Marlborough [earlier Lady Blandford]; 1st Lord McGowan; Sir John Marriott on F E Smith's involvement with David Lloyd George's proposed Coalition Government in 1910, and 9th Duke of Devonshire [then Lord Hartington]'s resignation [? from the Royal Household]; Sir Terence O'Connor (2); Nellie Romilly [earlier Nellie Hozier]; Harry Selfridge (2); "Archie" [Sir Archibald Sinclair, later 1st Lord Thurso] on current United States politics; Sir John Simon; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Cunliffe-Lister]; "Geordie" [5th Duke of Sunderland]; George Trevelyan; Sir Kingsley Wood; "Bendor" [2nd Duke of Westminster]; "Top" [Lord Wolmer, later 3rd Lord Selborne] on his impressions of German readiness for war.Also includes: a list of recipients of signed copies of "Great Contemporaries".