The contents are as follows:

(i) Two letters of Charles Dickens, one, 1868, to Henry Taylor, and one, undated, to the Countess of Blessington;

(ii) Two letters from Rudyard Kipling to William Henley, one, 1897, containing the rough draft of an apparently unfinished poem beginning 'Porter of dross', and one, undated, containing an early version of the poem beginning 'My new cut ashlar takes the light';

(iii) A letter, undated, from Ellen Kean to R H Wyndham, with a fragment, undated, of another letter written by her.