The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries.

It also includes:

- a frontispiece constructed from various cuttings and reading 'The Original Weekly Journal; With fresh Advices, Foreign and Domestick; Life; The Road to Ruin by Sassoon; Opinions; Secret Self': /2r.

- copies of correspondence: /17v-18r. From Sassoon to Stephen Tennant re their relationship and requesting a response to his letters; /91v-92r. Between Sassoon and Stephen Tennant.

- a list of social engagements and locations of nights spent away from home: /2v; /138r (including a retrospective note [dated April 1967] assessing the reasons for the failure of his marriage to Hester).

- pasted in press cuttings: /3r. re the weather, used as a page heading; /21r. re [Hermann] Göring's visit to Prince Philip of Hesse; /82v. An account of seeing shooting stars in Northern Ireland; /92v. Announcement of the marriage of Hester Gatty and Sassoon.

- a sheet for 28 September 1933 from a sheet per day calendar printed with a Sassoon's verse 'I love all things that pass': /77r.

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