The author writes in her later years, after the death of her husband and having returned from India, concerning personal news and people she has seen and from whom she has received letters.
She mentions: lending Mrs Saunderson ten pounds reluctantly; old letters that the 6th Duke has asked her about some of which contain kindnesses from his mother [Duchess Georgiana] over Lady Jones's sister [Georgiana Hare-Naylor]'s imprudent marriage; her comfort in the company of nephews Augustus and Julius; reference to a letter written from Porto Prayo Bay St Jago in summer 1783 and her recollections of the island and its governor; her thanks for a side of venison sent from Chatsworth; Dr Warren coming for dinner; Sir FM being ill; the Cliffords in Geneva; Mr Brougham; sea bathing as a cure for his ill health and his deafness (CS1/687/6); the death of her brother [William Shipley] in a shooting accident in France and the effect on her father [Jonathan Shipley]; going to Bodrhyddan to support her father; to be very careful when out shooting and never let a servant have a gun; the account from her nephews of the 6th Duke carrying the orb and passing under the canopy [at George IV's coronation] (CS1/687/8); her happiness at the marriage of Lady Georgiana Howard to [George Agar-Ellis]; her illness; the death of her father and her nephew (Reginald Hester Bishop of Calcutta); her bouts of cholera; William Shipley Conway; a man called John Christopher sailing under Captain Clifford who she wishes the 6th Duke to show favour towards.