The contents are as follows:

(i) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article, with autograph corrections, entitled 'Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey, critics and essayists' (folio 1);

(ii) Manuscript, 1933, of a lecture or article entitled 'Abraham Lincoln', apparently written on Herbert Grierson's return from America in that year (folio 26);

(iii) Manuscript notes, undated, headed 'Lincoln', but apparently concerning Andrew Carnegie and American industry, probably notes for part of the above paper on Lincoln (folio 65);

(iv) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article entitled 'Some historical debates' (folio 83);

(v) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article on 'The compatibility or incompatiblity of the Wordsworthian or Meredithian interpretation of the life of nature, and her affinity with the soul of man, and the Darwinian account of man and nature' (folio 111);

(vi) Typescript, undated, of a review by Grierson of ‘The breaking of the circle’ by Marjorie Hope Nicholson (Evanston, Illinois, 1950), published in ‘The modern language review’, July 1952 (folio 124);

(vii) Manuscript, undated, of a lecture or article entitled 'Ibsen' (folio 130);

(viii) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article entitled 'The spoken word', which deals largely with the influence of the British Broadcasting Corporation (folio 141);

(ix) Typescript, undated, of a lecture or article entitled 'The human position', discussing the place of Christianity in the modern world, the place of man in the universe, and the question of Faith (folio 154);

(x) Typescript, undated, of a report by Grierson on a thesis by Naresh Chandre entitled 'Contributions of Christianity to English lyrical poetry, a study of seventeenth century poets' (folio 165).