Subjects include: trouble with Clementine's tonsils; a stay at Lou Sueil, Eze [France], March 1929, with Jacques Balsan and Consuelo Balsan [earlier Consuelo Vanderbilt and Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough]; the maturity of Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; campaigning in Churchill's Epping [Essex] constituency during the General Election; a visit to Sir Philip Sassoon at Port Lympne [Kent] and the declining health of Lord Edward Grosvenor; progress on the wall at Chartwell [Kent], news of the farm, Arnold the farm manager and the arrival of Madame L'Honoré, a French teacher for the children; going to see Clementine's sister Nellie Romilly [earlier Nellie Hozier] at Dieppe [France] and Clementine's good opinion of Nellie's two sons, Giles and Esmond Romilly; the seventh birthday of Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] and the dovecot being built for her at Chartwell; going on to the roof of Selfridges, London; Mary's first school.