The earliest recorded date reads as 1 October 1949 and the latest as 23 September 1952. The notebook includes a series of inserted typescript and manuscript pages featuring notes related to the sections in which they appear. [This notebook was housed with several others, all of which appear to relate to the same writing project, a proposed book entitled at any one time as 'House of Dreamers', 'The Human Quality', 'House of Strangers' or 'The Life Behind the Stone.' Simon published a book entitled 'The Past Masters' in 1953, which was subsequently published as 'The House of Strangers' in the United States.]