The contents are as follows.

(i) “Shaoil mi i bhith fo éislean”, 2 stanzas (folio 1);

(ii) “Dh’aontaich mo reusan ‘s mo chridh”, 10 lines (middle of folio 1);

(iii) “‘S tusa Shomhairle ‘chuis-bhurte”, 4 lines (folio 2);

(iv) ‘Mo chasan brist aig Alamein’, 4 lines (folio 3);

(v) “Oidhche de ‘n dà bhliadhna”, 17 lines. ‘An Trom-laighe’. (‘Spring tide and Neap Tide’, page 129) (folio 5);

(vi) “‘S mi ris an neo-dhealgach”, 6 stanzas. ‘Air slios deisearach’. (‘Spring tide and neap tide’, page 123) (folio 7);

(vii) “Chì mi na coin a’tighinn”, 16 lines (folio 10);

(viii) “Ged tha mi ‘n diugh ri uchd a’ bhatail”, 3 stanzas. ‘Knightsbridge Libia 1942. June’. (Cf. ‘Four points of a Saltire’, page 121) (folio 14);

(ix) “Dé a fhuair thusa chridhe”, 8 lines (folio 16);

(x) “‘S ann a thig an fhìrinn dhaor”, 9 lines. ‘Do mo luaidh breugach’ (folio 18);

(xi) “So an t-àite mu dheireadh”, 13 stanzas. (‘Spring tide and neap tide’, page 131) (folio 19);

(xii) ‘Eadar Tobruck is Bir Hacheim’, 16 lines (folio 25);

(xiii) “Cùis-bhùrta dhèanamh de mo bhuadhan”, 5 stanzas (folio 28);

(xiv) ‘Choisich mi an aon Ghehenna’, 2 stanzas. “An dà Ghehenna”. With drafts (folio 33);

(xv) “Na robh mise marbh san fhàsaich”, 4 stanzas. (Cf. ‘Poetry Scotland’, volume 3, page 32) (folio 36);

(xvi) ‘The louse-fast floor is ridgily’, 11 lines (folio 65 verso).