The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1926-27-I' and mostly comprises diary entries. These include passages on: /27r. showing American publisher Crosby Gaige the manuscript of [Wilfred] Owen's poems; /34r-34v. a visit from Robert Graves; /43v-44r. 'My Landlord' (about Harold Speed); /44v-45v. anecdotes about poets W.B. Yeats and Wordsworth told to him by Edmund Gosse; /54v-67r. visits to Ruth and Henry Head and to Thomas Hardy at Max Gate; /79r. reflections on his influence on Wilfred Owen's poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'; /84v-86r & /102v-103r. trips to Oxford to see Glen Byam Shaw perform; and passages relating to his friendships with Ben Nichols, Edmund Gosse, Edith and Obsert Sitwell, and E.M. Forster, among others.

The volume also includes:

- a list of locations of nights spent away from home: /1v.

- an analysis of the time taken to fill journal volumes: /2r.

- lists of 'Books given away this Christmas': /32v-33r.

- copies of letters from Sassoon's nephews Leo and Pat Sassoon re Christmas gifts and family news: /42v-43r; and of letters from Robert and Nancy [Graves]: /69v.

- pasted in photograph of 'Mother's cat Jack': /78v.

- pasted in press cutting of an advertisement for the 'Mercury Book' (poetry anthology): /91v.

- a draft of a poem 'For an Album': /102v.

N.B. A detached folio is to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's.