Subjects include: Winston Churchill's proposal to Venetia Stanley [later Venetia Montagu]; news from Admiral 1st Lord Fisher, including his belief that "Napoleon B" [Richard Haldane] might want to leave the War Office and become First Lord of the Admiralty instead; press attacks against McKenna; the 1910 General Election; the early childhood of Michael McKenna and David McKenna; the death of her brother-in-law, Francis Mc'Laren.