On subjects including WSC being "in the trenches", having dinner with Adele Essex [Adele Capell, Countess of Essex] who had heard that WSC had been offered command of a brigade but refused it, dining with G [?] and George Curzon [Lord Curzon of Kedleston], and inviting [Andrew] Bonar Law [later Prime Minister]; giving WSC's address to George Curzon so he could write; dining at "C R" [41 Cromwell Road, London] with CSC, Lady Helen Mitford and [Nellie Hozier, later Romilly]; contributing £40 a month to the housekeeping at 41 Cromwell Road, and giving "Goonie" [Lady Gwendeline Churchill, earlier Lady Gwendine Bertie] £10 a month; sending oil silk stockings, wishing WSC happy birthday and advising him to take the trenches in "small doses"; rumours that [Sir John] French had been recalled [from the Western Front]; CSC and children visiting for lunch; Francis Grenfell's will; and Gallipoli being evacuated.