Chiefly love letters written while LSA was at Headquarters in Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece], and with other subjects including: the state of the naval war; LSA's concerns with domestic politics, particularly over Ireland; being taken up in an aeroplane; the death of Brigadier-General Philip Howell; LSA's justified doubts about the Romanian army; whether he should return home or stay with the army; a court of inquiry into accusations of spying.

Also includes a letter from Lady Edward Cecil [later Violet, Lady Milner] and a postcard from Geoffrey Amery, while in Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany].