Subjects include: Churchill's stay at Mimizan [France], February 1924, including boar hunting and gambling and whether to return because of the political situation; pressing work on articles for the Sunday Chronicle and Ray Long [Vice-President and Editor in Chief, International Magazine Company]; a planned debate with Stanley Baldwin at the Cambridge Union on rhetoric; progress on the works at Chartwell [Kent]; standing in the Westminster Abbey by-election as an Independent candidate, February 1924; a talk with Stanley Baldwin on Churchill's return to politics, the growing support for [James] Ramsay MacDonald [Prime Minister] and Churchill's view that he should stay with the moderate Liberals rather than join the Conservatives; moving into Chartwell; the dire state of the Liberal Party and a possible new seat at St George's, Westminster, April 1924; Churchill's closer political relationship with David Lloyd George; an offer from the Conservatives in the West Essex Division [Epping]; plans for a biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough; the death of Bateman the groom.