The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1929.II.1930.I' and mostly comprises diary entries and reflective passages.

It also includes:

- notes on the reception of Robert Graves's 'Goodbye to all that': /128v-129r.

- notes on a visit to Max Gate and a conversation while at tea and lunch with W.B. Yeats: /133r-136v.

- a note of the sales figures for 'Memoirs': /2v.

- 'list of things to be done in the first four weeks after my return [from Italy]': /89r.

- drafts of poetry: /126v. Untitled, begins 'Memoirs continued, first perused by Max'; /127r. 'Enjoying the life of Cowper'; /127v-128. Untitled, begins 'Do I misread'; /127v. 'Keeping the Game Alive'; /136r. 'On an Editor who has shaved off his moustache on retirement from office'; /136r. 'A Scotch Cameo', couplet.

- list of literary work completed: /2r.

- plans of rooms: /116r; /134r; 135r.

- copies of correspondence: /47r-49r. Copy of a letter from Sassoon to R[obert] Graves re exasperation caused by his book, inaccuracies therein, and his previous offensive behaviour, 6 February 1930; /128r. Published letter from J.J. Astor to Sassoon re an imperial press conference, 6 February 1930.

- quotations of various writers on war and the post war situation: Thomas Hardy; Robert Bridges; Rudyard Kipling; John Galsworthy; George Bernard Shaw; Hall Caine; E. Gosse; Rothermere; Curzon of Kedleston; Cosmo [Gordon Lang]; Randall [Davidson]; H.H. Asquith; Grey of Fallodon: /124v-126r.

- acquaintances' contact details: /2v.

- list of monies spent: /82r.

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

- list of books taken away, including a list of some read by Stephen Tennant: /132v.

- pasted in press cuttings: /1r. Announcement of the value of the estate of Ellen Gosse; /92v. Advertisement for a copy of 'A Shropshire Lad' which belonged to Robbie Ross; /94r. Arnold Bennett's review of Humbert Wolfe's 'The Uncelestial City'.

N.B. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's.