This term describes material in a wide variety of formats, including loose pages similar to those used for some of the diary entries. The content includes research ideas, reflections, maxims, notes on books read, quotations, observations on foreign travel, thoughts for speeches, articles or books, reminiscences, humorous limericks and all the varied material presented by daily life to an observant eye and witty pen.

Not all the material is dated; it is presented in chronological order as far as this is ascertainable.