Subjects include: GJ's future and Nicolson's own view of the diplomatic service; his views on sexuality; responses to his book "Some People"; his posting in Berlin [Germany]; GJ's engagement to Cynthia Noble; his view of Cyril Connolly; a suspicion that GJ had leaked official information to Nicolson, at the Evening Standard; his impressions of Italy, 1932; GJ becoming a celebrity, 1950; GJ's popularity in France; the death of Victoria Nicolson [Vita Sackville-West].

Also includes: some letters from Victoria Nicolson on subjects including writing about her experiences in Tehran [Persia, later Iran] and her poem "The Land"; a letter from Nicolson to Lancelot Oliphant [Counsellor, Foreign Office] on GJ's work in Persia, recommending him for a posting in the Foreign Office; a letter from Nigel Nicolson on GJ and the United Nations Association.