The journals record day to day events and reflections on family, friends and relationships during chiefly the period of RSM's education at Bedales School and King's College, service in the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry, including on the Western Front in 1918 and in co. Cork in 1919 and life in London after the First World War. Certain passages are annotated by RSM or [Arthur] Elliott Felkin in the course of subsequent reading. Assorted letters, photographs, school, university and West End play programmes and press cuttings are paper-clipped to the pages of several journals. In cases where this material had become detached, it is enclosed loose with the journal to which it relates. Dates given cover this additional material as well as journal entries.
Correspondents include F. Békássy (Bekassy) (2 autograph letters signed, 1911-12), E. A. Browne (3 autograph letters signed, 1914, 1918-19), Oscar Browning (2 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph postcard signed, 1913-14), Frances B. Cruttwell (30 autograph letters signed, 1912-14), [Arthur] Elliott Felkin (68 autograph letters signed, 4 autograph postcards signed and 3 telegrams, 1911-19), Geoffrey Fry (4 autograph letters signed, 1 typed letter signed, 1 autograph postcard signed and 1 telegram, 1913-14, 1918), Florence Hardy (3 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph postcard signed, 1919), John Marshall (4 autograph letters signed, 1914, 1918-19), James Marshall Moorsom (8 autograph letters signed, 1911, 1913-14), Jermyn Moorsom (31 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed and 2 telegrams, 1908, 1913-14, 1916, 1918-19), Humphrey Noble (1 autograph letter signed, 1914), Noel Olivier (1 autograph letter signed, 1910), Harry Stalker (9 autograph letters signed, 1917-19), Geoffrey Toulmin (1 autograph letter signed and 1 typed letter signed, 1918-19), Hubert Waley (4 autograph letters signed and 2 autograph postcards signed, 1916, 1918-19), E. L. G. ('Peter') Watson (3 autograph letters signed, 1 autograph postcard signed, 1914, 1919), Dorothy Wedgwood (née Winser) (23 autograph letters signed, 1909-12, 1915-16, 1918-19).