Red leather-bound notebook, the title tooled in gold on the front cover. The volume was not originally paginated: page numbers 1-149 were added at the point of cataloguing for ease of reference.
Some pages are blank (chiefly, although not exclusively, flimsier pages inserted to separate text from drawings etc).
The volume contains handwritten notes; sketches, drawings, and photographs pasted to the pages; reports; articles etc, some relating to Girton College. As follows:
Page 2: Sepia photograph by H L Tangye, captioned ‘Moonlight from Glendorgal Cliffs, Cornwall’;
Page 5: title page, inscribed ‘The Grasshopper’ and illustrated with twining leaves and flowers in various colours and gold;
Pages 7-8: ‘Editorial’, describing the volume as a magazine and stating that it will travel around the country [by post] for three months to various contributors; signed Mary T Slater and Edward T Slater;
Page 11: Contents page, including names of contributors (Mrs S M Slater, Archibald Slater, Mary C Rankine, Mary T Slater, T B Leigh, T B A Saunders, Marg[are]t MacKennal; Mary Loy and Maurice Slater, H Lincoln Tangye, Agnes Loy and Nora Clarke) – as with title page above, this page is elaborately illustrated with twining leaves and flowers;
Pages 13-16 and 23-27: ‘The Grasshopper Picnic’, written by M T Slater, being a description of a picnic held at Lilleshall Abbey for the contributors;
Page 18: Watercolour painting by M T Slater entitled ‘Gateway – Lilleshall Abbey’;
Page 21: Watercolour painting by M T Slater entitled ‘Old Gateway. Lilleshall Abbey’;
Page 30: black and white photograph of a gathering of 25 people, taken by W M Bayliss [no key to names but presumed to be those attending ‘The Grasshopper Picnic’];
Page 33: black and white photograph of the same group as on page 30 above, taken by T Johnson, with key to names, including all the contributors? (the key notes those who are ‘non-members’);
Pages 35-38, 43-46 and 51-53: ‘The Grasshopper Picnic’, being an additional description of the picnic held at Lilleshall Abbey, not signed but in a different hand from the previous one;
Page 41: Watercolour painting entitled ‘Norman Door Lilleshall Abbey’ [not signed but also by M T Slater? Or N Saunders as below?];
Page 49: Watercolour painting by N Saunders entitled ‘Gateway Lilleshall Abbey’;

Pages 55-66: ‘Letters from the Eifel’, being an account by M C Rankine of a few days spent in Germany;
Page 68: Sepia photograph of ‘The Library Wing’ [Girton College], view across Emily Davies Court to the Stanley Library and the Tower, with a female figure sitting on the tennis court in the foreground, taken by E A Peters;
Pages 71-74, 83-90, and 95-103: ‘Girton College from Within’ (page 71 illustrated with a small but very detailed pencil line drawing of the Tower and gateway), being an account by Mary T Slater, in which she sets out to dispel the various misconceptions associated with a women’s college. Topics covered include: the history of the College; the location and grounds of the College, including the pond and the swans John and Emma; the incident where a hunt followed a hare into the College grounds and the undergraduates wandered the grounds; the College buildings, including the long corridors; student rooms; the [Stanley] Library; the Reading Room; the Hospital; the College Committee; the Mistress, Vice Mistress and other staff, including about 40 maids; College fees; the College course, including tripos and lectures; the routine of the day, including references to sport and the gymnasium (including a note that the gymnasium contained a fives court), p. 89; the Girton tea parties, where students take their ‘tray’ with them; College rules, including hours, chaperones and visiting private houses; the rules regarding brothers; the fact that the rules are not enforced nor written down; the debating society; the fire brigade; the tennis club; the Southwark Settlement; missionary work, bible meetings and Sunday school in the village; and discussion of the benefits of a College education. There is a detailed comment on p. 90 on the 'popular fallacy' that smoking is a regular habit at Girton, indicating that it is a 'mystery how this notion originated';
Page 76: sepia photograph of ‘The Library’, taken by E A Peters – interior view of the Stanley Library;
Page 80: Sepia photograph of ‘A student’s room’, taken by E A Peters – interior view of a study, showing the fireplace and desk;
Page 92: Sepia photograph of ‘The New Wing’, taken by E A Peters - exterior view of the Tower and Tower Wing;
Page 103-104: poem by E T S [Edward Slater] entitled ‘Whilton Court August 1891’;
Pages 1-5-115: ‘Notes on Shakespeare’s Sonnets’, signed T B Leigh;
Pages 117, 120-121, and 124-125: five pen and ink line drawings, all by T B A Saunders (‘Mr Principal A M Fairbairn, Hon M A Oxon, Mansfield College’; ‘The Rt Rev. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury at St Mary’s Oxford’; ‘The Rev Canon Knox Little’; ‘The Continental Tourist at Folkestone taken from life’; and ‘Monsieur Stepniak, author of ‘Underground Russia’ etc’);
Pages 127-130: ‘Life in a Swiss Village’ by M Mackennel;
Pages 131-132: ‘A German Election’ by Mary Loy;
Pages 133-134: ‘Hamlet’ by T B Leigh;
Pages 135-137: ‘Football’ by Maurice Slater;
Pages 139-140: ‘Rules of the Grasshopper Magazine’;
Page 141: ‘Statement of Accounts’, comprising subscriptions, paper, postage etc;
Pages 142-144: ‘Order of circulation’, giving names and addresses of contributors and the order in which the Grasshopper is to be circulated to them;
Pages 145-149: ‘Pages for Criticisms’, in which contributors give comments on the interest or otherwise of various articles.