The contents are as follows:

(i) Chapter XII: ‘Men of letters’ (folio 1);

(ii) Chapter XIII: ‘The stage’ (folio 41);

(iii) Chapter XIV: 'Painters and architects’ (folio 66);

(iv) Chapter XV: ‘Soldiers, physicians, savants, travellers’ (folio 76);

(v) Chapter XVI: ‘Ireland, Sweden, France’ (folio 97);

(vi) Chapter XVII: ‘Miscellany’ (folio 119);

(vii) Sheets with trial contents lists for chapters (folio 137);

(viii) Sheets containing unpublished anecdotes and egotisms and drafts of parts of earlier chapters with different arrangements of anecdotes (folio 152).