Subjects include: Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]'s heart not being strong; power cuts and the debate on the coal crisis, 10 February 1947; Mary's wedding to [Arthur] Christopher Soames; a serious row between Churchill and Clementine Churchill, February 1947; LM catching measles; statements by Churchill on the National Service Bill, April 1947; division of work among the secretarial staff, April 1947; going to Paris [France] with Churchill when he received the Médaille Militaire, May 1947; Churchill's speech for a United Europe meeting at the Albert Hall [London], May 1947, which Duncan Sandys had tried to rewrite; [Richard] Denis Kelly coming to work on documents for the war memoirs; LM meeting the Duke and Duchess of Windsor [earlier Edward Prince of Wales then King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson], May 1947; butterflies for Chartwell [Kent]; a letter bomb scare, June 1947; Churchill's hernia operation, June 1947; rows between Churchill and Randolph Churchill, July 1947; visit to Blenheim Palace [Oxfordshire], August 1947, and speech for Conservative rally; the debate on the Supplies And Services (Transitional Powers) Bill, August 1947; Churchill's broadcast on the economic crisis ["No easy passage"], August 1947.

Also includes press cuttings on subjects including Mary Churchill's wedding, the exhibition of two of Churchill's paintings at the Royal Academy, the Médaille Militaire ceremony, the United Europe rally, Churchill's hernia operation and the Conservative rally at Blenheim.