Contents include:

(i) A transcript, lacking a few leaves at the beginning, of the text found also in MS.3732; there the relationship of this text to that of the printed editions of 1860 and 1910 is briefly described. Capital letters which appear at intervals in the margin refer to the paragraphs in (ii) below.

(ii) 'Paragraphs in the Original omitted in the Copy' (folio 372), that is, in (i) above. All these paragraphs are incorporated in both editions of the printed ‘Autobiography’.