On subjects including: a visit from three Indian scientists, including Meghnad Saha; Max's visit to Oxford to give a lecture at the invitation of Lord Cherwell; his recommendations for the 1945 Nobel Prize for Physics; family and friends; the war and international affairs; politics and philosophy, including his opinion of dialectic materialism, of communism, and of religion; his lecture to the Institute of Physics; his professional disagreement with Raman; news from Max's cousin Helen Perlhöfter about her brother Hans Schäfer in the Netherlands and the deaths of their relatives in Germany; fellow scientists, including Edmund Whittaker; Max's visit to the USSR in 1945 with other scientists to celebrate the anniversary of the Academy of Science of the USSR; visit to Ireland for a colloquium; the atomic bomb; visit to Egypt to give lectures.