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Greatwood, Falmouth, Cornwall. - Has had a pleasant week with Lord Stonehaven, head of the Conservative Central Office; conversation on Beaverbrook and Mosley has been congenial though international relations and war have been more difficult topics. Much likes Hilton [Young]. Has enjoyed seeing Lady Falmouth [Kathleen, wife of 7th Viscount Falmouth?] and taking tea at the Orangery at Trevissick. Is going tomorrow to see the Arnold Forsters. Has been reading Augustine's Confessions with interest; wonders why religion makes people 'so denunciatory'; possible role of religion 'for the masses' of making the world 'more odd and interesting' as 'cultivation' does for him. Two children here: Wayland Hilton Young, who is 'competent, cocky and insolent', and his friend Tony White, whose mother might know the 'C. Trevys', and who suffers like Forster from night-terrors exacerbated by Hilton's reading aloud of [Conan Doyle's] 'The Speckled Band'.

24 Queen Anne’s Gate, S.W.—She had a good journey [from France] in the company of Lord Derby and Lord Charles [Hope]. She lunched today with Duff and Diana; Crooks is away and Scatters is ‘pursuing some dark chase’. She wishes now that she had not left Montagu, and is resolved to come out with him in March. Aarons [her gynaecologist] says there is ‘a little thing wrong with her’.

Includes four letters from Clement Jones dated March to August 1956, three letters from Lord Beaverbrook dated 1956-1957, including a long letter in which he responds in detail to questions set by J. R. M. Butler, the draft of which is also present; a letter from Walter Layton dated 12 Sept. 1957; and three letters from Frances Lloyd George dated February to March 1959.