The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1929-I' and mostly comprises diary entries.

It also includes:

- notes of a ?word association game played with Stephen Tennant: /134r, /136r.

- notes on the value of the Beer estate: /137r. - drafts of poetry: /130v. 'Past and Present'; /131. Untitled, begins 'I wish old Gosse was here'; /131v-132r. Untitled, begins 'Down the shadowy staircase'; /132v. 'Dining with Osbert Sitwell'; /133v. 'Epigram', couplet; /135r. 'An April Birthday'.

- stave of music, Brahms: /44v.

- quotations: /135v. Unattributed, 'The organised frenzy of an ant hill'; /135v. Motto for visitors to the British Museum, 'Thou Shalt not Wilt'; /135v. Sassoon quoting his own inscription to Tennant in a gift copy of Swainson's 'Exotic Conchology', begins 'War has its idiot shells'; /136v. Uncle Walter, various snippets of conversation.

- list of monies spent or gifted: /136v.

- list of locations of nights spent away from home: /2r.

- list of books read: /2r.

- list of correspondence and photographs sent: /1v.

- pasted in photographs of Stephan Tennant and of Dr Kaltenbach (who cured Stephen's lung): /2r.

- pasted in press cuttings: /1r. 'April Birthday (To S.T.) By Siegfried Sassoon'; /2v. Reporting William Walton's comments on staying with Tennant and Sassoon in Amalfi; /2v. A listing from a French ?literary sales catalogue; /60v. 'Hawthornden Prize Award to Mr. Siegfried Sassoon'; /106v. announcement of the death of Ellen Gosse; /133r. 'Dining with Osbert Sitwell'.

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