Includes discussion of politics, the Liberal Party, reference to the National Service League, taxation of land values, accounts of visits to Paris and Berlin by Geoffrey Marchand, Anglo-German relations, the outbreak of World War I and Charles' resignation.
Correspondents include Walter Runciman, Dudley Ward, Norman Angell, Jan Hubert Utrecht, F D Acland, C Addison, Richard Brown, Fred Burn, Percy Illingworth, Robert J Long, Geoffrey Marchand, John Paul, M Philips Price and Sophie Sturge.
Also includes an MPs train pass, with annotations claiming that it was issued by Asquith to travel to his constituency following the resignation of Seely, and letters to 'George' [George Otto Trevelyan?] from Gordon Wordsworth protesting the erection of a post.