Comprises seven notebooks containing: notes for reviews (verse, fiction, non-fiction and television/film); notes relating to cricket; notes and drafts relating to The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry; notes and drafts relating to verse including 'In Memoriam Alfred Lord Tennyson' and 'Hoots Mon!'; notes on achievements for award; and notes for Poetical Lexicon.

One notebook [closed] encloses Curriculum Vitae [post 1992].