Subjects include: Churchill's visit to Oxford, June 1946; the departure of Frank Sawyers [Churchill's valet]; speeches and public protests on bread rationing; plans for visits to Luxembourg and Metz [France], July 1946, and Switzerland, July and August; Churchill over-straining himself, August 1946; film shows at Chartwell [Kent]; visit to Switzerland, August-September 1946; Churchill painting at Lake Geneva and working on the war memoirs; trouble with William Greenshields [Churchill's valet] being rude to staff and guests; Clementine Churchill hurting her ribs; work on Churchill's Zurich ['United Europe'] speech; LM trying out the horses from the Bernard van Leer circus, September-October 1946 and the unauthorised publication of photographs of Churchill riding 'Salve'; an offer to buy Chartwell, October 1946; work on a foreign affairs speech, 23 October 1946; El Alamein Reunion, October 1946; a row with Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] over the publication of articles by Churchill in Collier's magazine; LM visiting the 'Britain Can Make It' exhibition [at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London]; Mary Churchill's engagement to [Arthur] Christopher Soames, October-November 1946; allegations in Alan Moorehead's biography of 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein about his relationship with Churchill and planning for D-Day, November 1946; Clementine collapsing with nervous exhaustion; Churchill's speech for the India debate, 12 December 1946; use of the Soundscriber machine for dictation at night, December 1946; snow and power cuts, January 1947.