Letters written after John Julius had been evacuated to the United States and Canada, on subjects including: living in London during the Blitz; interned Germans; press hostility against Duff Cooper; reaction to John Julius being sent to the United States; dinner with Rex Whistler; air raids; a broadcast by Lady Diana, Aug 1940; the effect of the war on Bognor [Sussex]; a weekend at Ditchley Park [Oxfordshire] with Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, Feb 1941; keeping livestock at Bognor.

Also includes: Ministry of Information public letters written by Duff Cooper; press cuttings on John Julius being sent abroad; Lady Diana's broadcast on the Battle Hymn of the Republic (Aug 1940); a war commentary broadcast by 3rd Lord Dudley, Regional Commissioner for Civil Defence in the Midlands [earlier Lord Ednam], on civil defence in action.