The volume is a ruled notebook (marked '1921 Rome' on the front cover) and mostly comprises diary entries, together with preparatory notes for poetry and prose.

Diary entries include: /14r-21r. an account of a visit to Renshaw Hall [home of the Sitwells] in September 1921, with comments on Osbert Sitwell; /22r-23v. entries concerning Elgar; entries written /28r. at Tintern Abbey, /28v-30. at Max Gate, home of 'T.H.' [Thomas Hardy], /30v-33v. on a trip to Rome [with Frank 'Toronto' Prewett], and /42v-45r. at Cirencester [with Norman Loder].

The volume also includes:

- drafts of poetry: /4r-5r. untitled, begins 'It is rumoured of God Almighty'; /6r-10a(v). 'The Last Judgement'; /11r-12r. 'Dives and Lazarus'; /12r. 'My Message'.

- quotations: /2v. Landor, begins 'There is a gloom in deep love'; /3r. Shelley, begins 'Murmured names and spells'; /12v. Nietzsche, begins 'In respect to artists of every kind'; /13v. Shelley, marked 'Reason and Imagination'; /71v. T[homas] H[ardy] quoting Job.XV.17, 'That which I have seen I will declare'.

- prose passages: /38v-39r. 'Prelude to a self-revealing journal'; /39v-41r. 'After-effects of an intellectual discussion at Cambridge'; /41v-42r. 'Conversation in a tea-car' (with Mr Elwes).

- pen and ink drawings: /2r. semi-abstract image containing two male figures; /10b(r). semi-abstract image labelled 'The serpent Lust; shapes of distracted Angels: I am Orestes fighting with my furies'; /10b(v) semi-abstract image containing a figure and a face; /69v. abstract lines containing the letters A.M.L.

- notes on The Last Judgement and religious enthusiasm: /3v.

- list of manuscripts of poems by Wilfred Owen, annotated with probable dates and thoughts on quality: /72r-73v; together with a second list of 'Poems returned to Mrs Owen as no good': /71r.

- notes on incentives for writing: /36r; and on reasons for keeping a journal: /36v-37v.

- list of social engagements October 1921-March 1922: /34v-35v.

N.B. After folio /69 entries resume from the back of the notebook. Detached folios are to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's. Blank from folios /45v-69r.