On the whole the manuscripts are fair copies, but there are a few examples of Sharp's composition at an earlier stage.

The contents are as follows:

(i) Poems of 'Fiona MacLeod’, chiefly published in “The works of 'Fiona MacLeod'”, volume vii (some exceptions are noted in the contents list) (folio 1);

(ii) Poems of William Sharp chiefly published in ‘Selected writings of William Sharp’, volume i (some exceptions are noted in the contents list) (folio 65);

(iii) Unpublished poems; some are signed 'William Sharp' and the style and subject matter of others suggest that they were intended to be so attributed (folio 128).