Subjects include: Churchill's Mediterranean cruise with 'the Rabbit' [Randolph Churchill] and Jack [John S Churchill], January 1927, work on the proofs [of "The World Crisis"] and his relief that the book was finished; impressions of Italy under the Fascist regime; the value of the Lawrence books [? "Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T E Lawrence, also T E Shaw, 'Lawrence of Arabia']; finding another school for Diana Churchill [later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; seeing the excavations at Pompeii and playing polo in Malta; concerns about their finances; a political luncheon in Paris [France], January 1927; boar hunting with the 2nd Duke of Westminster near Dieppe and meeting [Gabrielle] "Coco" Chanel; work at Chartwell [Kent], particularly the garden and farm; the sending of troops to China [for the Shanghai Defence Force]; painting lessons from Walter Sickert; a stay at the Duke of Westminster's Highland estate at Lairg [Scotland] and fishing with Coco Chanel; the move by Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames] to [11 Downing Street], London and her visit to see the Cabinet Room; campaigning in Epping [Essex], October 1927 and the Flappers' Vote [the Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Bill]; a fight with the Admiralty over naval spending; the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Duke of Windsor] and his obvious love for [Winifred] Freda Dudley Ward [later Freda, Marquesa de Casa Maury]; sales of ["The World Crisis"]; plans for the Budget; a portrait of Churchill in his Chancellor's robes by [? Alfred Neville Lewis].