The manuscript includes: (i) Typescript, undated, of an address to Professor Herbert Grierson (folio 1); (ii) Address to Professor George Saintsbury with other related material, 1922-1923 (folio 17); (iii) Class lists, 1895-1915, undated, for rhetoric and English literature (folio 50); (iv) Material, 1920-1945, undated, concerning examinations in Italian (folio 102); (v) Miscellaneous bills and accounts, 1905-1956, undated, of John Purves (folio 218).