Subjects include Mary Agnes Hamilton's experiences of air-raids and bombing near her flat in Chelsea; reflections on the impact of the war in comparison with the First World War; comments on the marriage, personalities, and domestic life of Nancy and Wilfred Greene; the transfer of her section at the Ministry of Information to the Public Relations division; comments on her writing projects and working conditions at Senate House; a lunch with Clement Attlee at the House of Commons; taking up a vice-chairmanship at the Women's Voluntary Service; a meeting at BBC monitoring with J. J. Salt and Mark Abrams; a lunch with Graham Greene, with discussion of the 'characters' working at the Ministry of Information; starting work for the Reconstruction Secretariat at the War Cabinet offices in St. George Street, and comments on colleagues including Arthur Greenwood and George Chrystal; a visit to Sir Kenneth and Jane Clark's house; reaction to a broadcast by Winston Churchill; her writing, including comments on her diary, memoirs, and finishing her work on the manuscript of 'Women at Work'; reflections on life as a 'temporary civil servant'; various social engagements; and comments on the cinema and her reading, including novels by Henry James. Other individuals remarked upon include Dorothy Shuckburgh, Ethel Salter, Joan ('Tiger') Howard, and Louise de Rosales.