Subjects include: various speeches, May 1954; Clementine's treatment [for neuritis]; a weekend at Chequers [Buckinghamshire], May 1954; the health of Clarissa Eden [earlier Clarissa Churchill, later Clarissa, Lady Avon], Churchill's agreement with [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] over the Geneva conference [on Indochina and Korea] and hopes for a ceasefire, while also avoiding a break with the United States; a debate on MPs' pay and a row in the Conservative Party about it; a debate on the Quebec Agreement [between Britain and the United States over use of the atomic bomb]; meeting the evangelist [William] Billy Graham; the publication of documents in the American official history of the war and Churchill's case against the Admiralty historian [Stephen Roskill]; the increased burden of writing speeches, and Churchill's dislike of having other people write them for him; the black swans and goldfish at Chartwell [Kent] and the progress of Churchill's racehorses Red Winter and Prince Arthur; Churchill's speech to the Conservative Women's Conference at the Royal Albert Hall [London]; Randolph Churchill's journalism work; a luncheon for Odette Pol Roger; teaching [Arthur] Christopher Soames to play bezique; a weekend with films at Chartwell and slow progress at the Geneva conference; the recovery of Isabel, Lady Derby, from being shot; bad news from R A Butler [? on the health of his wife Sydney Butler]; giving the cook, Georgina Landemare, a holiday; a new weighing machine and Clementine's diet; Gabriel [Clementine's cat]; the health of Nellie Romilly [earlier Nellie Hozier, Clementine's sister]; nine new Swedish Landrace pigs for Chartwell; Churchill's happiness in the children of Mary Soames [earlier Mary Churchill]; visits from Pierre Mendès France [the French Prime Minister], and Osbert Peake [Minister of Pensions and National Insurance, later 1st Lord Ingleby] to talk about old age pension policy, August 1954; the resignation of [Walter] Bedell Smith [American Under-Secretary of State].

Also includes copies of letters to and from Churchill on the Charge of the Light Brigade.