Unpublished autobiography comprising rough manuscript notes (MS. 15041/7), a 245 page typescript draft of the autobiography, with additions to chapters (a few pages near the end are missing) (MS. 15041/8-11), and correspondence regarding plans for possible publication (MS. 15041/12).

The work is titled 'A Chequered Career'. The intended division of the text is 15 titled chapters, though this process of division does not appear to be quite complete. With manuscript corrections in Nicholson's hand.