The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries; preparatory notes for poetry and prose; and notes on politics, the economy and industrial conditions (especially in South Wales).

The volume also includes:

- prose passages: /13v-15r. 'To a Traveller'; 15v-21r. 'On Staying at Max Gate' and visiting Thomas Hardy; /24v, untitled, begins 'the joyous adventure'; /31r. 'Autognosis'; /39r-39v. untitled, begins 'What would happen to a man who fell in love with a lunatic?'; /40v-41r. 'Entering the N.P.G. [National Portrait Gallery]'; /43v, /46v-57v. & /66r-69v. on the coal mining industry; /74r-74v. note on 'Eye and Ear Music'.

- drafts of poetry: /2v. 'Of the Phoenix'; /6v-8r. 'Unicorn'; /8v & /10r. untitled, later called 'Prayer'; /11v. untitled, begins 'On a delicate clear day'; /12r. 'Rosemary'; /12v-13r. 'Anagram' [acrostic]; /15r. & 22r. untitled, begins 'This brook has bright green hair'; /22v-24r. 'Lines to my Notebook'; /25v-26r. untitled, begins 'When twig-perched birds are brave'; /31v-32r. the text has been erased; /37v-38r. 'Things I have no objection to'; /36v. & /40r. the text has been erased; /41r. & /43r. 'Meridian'; /70v-71r. 'Delphine'.

- sketches and doodles: /2r. a tree; /18v. a milestone; /18v. a hillside with the Cerne Abbas giant.

- quotations and notes from published works: /1v. Pascal, begins 'On se parsaude mieux'; /1v. Morley, begins 'A vast space'; /1v. Laudor, begins 'Sad is the day'; /3r. Laudor, begins 'Every great author'; 4r. [Paul Verlaine], 'Offraude' (in French); /9r. from a work entitled 'Hydrotaphia'; /26v-30r. Conrad, 'Notes on Life and letters', for a review; /72r. W[illiam] H[alse] R[ivers] R[ivers], ' Dreams and Primitive Culture'.

- acquaintances' contact details: /76r.

- lists of monies spent: /75r-75v.

N.B. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's. Blank from folio /44r-46r and /58-65. After folio /66 entries resume from the back of the notebook.