The contents are as follows:

(i) Manuscript of an article by Edward Bruce Hamley, 'Poetry of the war', published in "Blackwood's magazine", May 1855 (folio 1);

(ii) Manuscript of an article by Hamley, 'North and the Noctes', published in "Blackwood's magazine", October 1855 (folio 14);

(ii) Manuscript of an article, 'A word with Grub Street', being Hamley's reply to critics of his 'Voltaire', and intended for insertion in a later issue of that work, but apparently unpublished (folio 28).