Subjects include: Clementine's fears for Churchill, and his progress on the Western Front; Clementine's YMCA canteens for munitions workers in London; public reaction to Churchill going to the front; the engagement of Clementine's sister Nellie Hozier to Bertram Romilly; Violet Asquith's marriage to Maurice Bonham Carter; an attack by Sir John Simon [Attorney-General] on Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] in Parliament; the death of [(Wilfred) William Sheridan], the husband of Churchill's cousin Clare Sheridan, in Belgium; Nellie's wedding; whether Churchill should take command of a battalion at the front before moving up to a brigade; supplies of clothes and food for Churchill; rumours of the impending replacement of Field Marshal Sir John French [later 1st Lord Ypres] as Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in France; a remark from Maurice Hankey [Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence] that he missed Churchill's courage and ability to take decisions; letters from 1st Lord Curzon [Lord Privy Seal, on renewing the naval attack on the Dardanelles]; a parting gift for Edward Marsh [Churchill's Private Secretary]; arguments in Cabinet over conscription; a suggestion from David Lloyd George [Minister of Munitions] that Churchill might come back and work at the Munitions Office; Churchill's political future, and the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] being more trustworthy than Lloyd George.