The contents are as follows:

(i) Material relating to ‘Passages from the diary of a late physician’: manuscript of 'Notice to the reader' and 'Introduction' to the first edition, 1832 (folio 1); manuscript of the preface to the third volume, 1838 (folio 5); and pages of “Blackwood's Magazine”, August and September 1830, containing chapters i and ii, with considerable manuscript corrections apparently for the first edition (folio 11);

(ii) Manuscript of an article, 'Speculators among the stars, part II', published in "Blackwood's magazine", October 1854 (folio 31);

(iii) Manuscript, circa 1847, of an apparently unpublished article, "The death of Daniel O' Connel, Esq., M.P." (folio 67); and a copy, 1828, of an apparently unpublished poem, 'Adieu to romance' (folio 68);

(iv) Excerpts in Samuel Warren's hand from press notices of ‘The lily and the bee’ (folio 70).