Subjects include: trouble with Clementine's eyes; progress on volume IV of Churchill's biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough; work on the fish pond at Chartwell [Kent]; Churchill's new book ["Great Contemporaries"]; the importance of his speech on the debate on the Government's Palestine policy, and hopes of overturning the scheme for partition [into separate Jewish and Arab states], July 1937; the death and funeral of Ralph Wigram, January 1937 and a house party at Trent Park, London [with Sir Philip Sassoon]; the grief of Ava Wigram [later Ava, Lady Anderson]; the financial affairs of Sarah Oliver [earlier Sarah Churchill, later Sarah Beauchamp and Sarah, Lady Audley] and Vic Oliver; painting indoors at Chartwell, and the help given to Churchill in his literary work [on the Marlborough biography] by William Deakin; a Government dossier on the finances of the Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII] and the implications for his Civil List pension; swans at Chartwell and the departure of [?] Arnold the farm manager; 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth]'s continuing payments to Randolph Churchill to prevent him from drinking; Sarah Oliver taking the flat below Randolph's at Westminster Gardens [London]; work on the cottages at Chartwell and money saving measures; plans for the south of France, February 1937; Stanley Baldwin's decision to resign [as Prime Minister]; plans for starting work on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples".