Diary kept during ELS's time as Head of the Spears Mission to Syria and the Lebanon and First Minister to the republics of Syria and the Lebanon. Subjects include: the journey of the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit to the Levant via South Africa and Egypt; difficulties in dealing with the Free French; her happiness at being with ELS; moving up to the front line in Syria; her poor view of General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East]; life keeping house for ELS in Damascus; General Charles de Gaulle's refusal to co-operate with the British; ELS's arguments with de Gaulle and the Foreign Office over Lebanese independence; her concern about leaving "Peti" [Michael Spears] on his own and bitterness at having to leave ELS with Nancy Maurice; her views on ELS's aide, 2nd Lord Oxford and Asquith; ELS's disillusionment with the Free French; travelling through the Libyan desert in the Tobruk area; liaison difficulties for the unit between the British and French forces.

Also includes loose pages of draft memoirs on the work of the unit [? "Journey Down a Blind Alley"] and on reasons for backing General Georges Catroux [Commander-in-Chief of the Free French in the Levant] instead of de Gaulle.