The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was at the Regimental Depot in Litherland.

The diary entries include occasional references to Robert [Graves] and his poetry (e.g. /2r, /18r, /25r and /40v).

The volume also includes:

- lists of members of his section and their fates: /1v.

- drafts of poetry: /6r. untitled, begins 'On pain of death let no man name death to me'; /14v-15r. 'The dead soldiers', later called 'Enemies'; /16v-17r. untitled, begins 'When I am in a blaze of lights', [later called 'When I'm among a Blaze of Lights']; /23r-23v. untitled, begins 'England has many heroes'; /31v-32r. 'The Elgar Violin Concerto', later called 'Enigma Variations'; /35r-37r. 'Death and Summer', later called 'Serenity'; /77v. untitled, begins 'I came into the hut and found'.

- sketches and doodles: /41r. a steam ship; /44r. abstract curved lines; /44v. a ?dancer with arms raised; /46v. two ?conductors; in the background are four faces and a ?ladder.

- excerpts from letters from: Lady Ottoline Morrell: /18v-19r; Nevill Forbes, Robbie Ross and Roderick Meiklejohn, January 1917: /72r-75r; and Garsington: /78r-79v, together with 'More pacifism from Garsington': /73v.

- quotations: /1r. Campion, 'When thou must home'; /1v. Francis Thompson, 'I fall into the claws of time'; /7r. Ch.Ch.M.S. 'For 'tis a duteous thing' and Herrick, 'Let the dark not thee cumber'; /10r. Mr Britling, beginning 'Everywhere cunning'; /12r. Swinburne, 'O sleepless heart'; /28v-29r, /30r, /37v. [Moore], 'The Brook Kerith'; /30r. Gösta Berling, 'I am no suicide'; /38v. T.W.H. Crosland, 'Epitaph'; /43r. Viscount Morley on Lloyd George; /68v-69r. J. Masefield, 'Roses are beauty'. - a list of clothing items and of diary dates: /40v.

- 'list of people Robert Graves wants his book sent to': /75v-77r.

- acquaintances' contact details: /1v; /84r. - ?list of monies spent: /80v.

N.B. Sassoon wrote from both ends of this notebook; from folio /68v entries resume from the opposite end. Folios /48r-68r & /69v-73r are blank. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's.