The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscript drafts and typescripts, 1976, undated, of some of the poems in 'The Gold of the Tigers', published as part of ‘The book of sand’ (New York, 1977) (folio 1); (ii) Manuscripts and typescripts of five poems printed in ‘Borges, a reader’, edited by E Rodriguez Monegal and Alastair Reid (New York, 1981) (folio 32); (iii) Drafts of other poems, undated (folio 38).