The notebook includes an introduction to a collection of Edwin Muir’s poems by the 'Poetry Book Society' (folio 3); three of the lectures published in ‘The estate of poetry’, 1962, pages 61-110 (folio 5); and three articles, 'American poetry' (folio 36 verso), 'Dickens' (folio 31 verso) and ‘The ballads' (folio 20 verso).