The contents includes: (i) Paper, undated, by John Purves on 'The literature of the British dominions' (folio 1); (ii) Notes, [circa 1930], on early Latin poetry and hymns taken chiefly from printed sources (folio 50); (iii) Notes, [circa 1914], on literary relations between England and the Netherlands (folio 147); (iv) Notes, undated, on 'The tendencies of recent German literature' (folio 201); (v) Autograph manuscript, 1942-1943, of poems in German written by several poets (folio 245); (vi) Rough notes, 1943, undated, on Polish language and literature (folio 267).