Including comment on friends, relatives and acquaintances, including Diana Lister (later Capel , then Wyndham, later Countess of Westmorland), Venetia Stanley, Kathleen 'Kakoo' Manners (née Tennant, Duchess of Rutland from 1925), Gwendoline 'Goonie' Churchill and Ivor Churchill, and on current affairs. Some published in part or in whole in A. Cooper (ed.), 'A Durable Fire: the letters of Duff and Diana Cooper 1913-1950'.