The book was originally used as an exercise book for school compositions, and the tapes have been pasted over the top. Inside the front cover is a sheet of notes in Marconi's hand on the experiments, and inside the back cover is a note by Kemp of a code to indicate the quality of signals received.

Comprises: Letter from Kemp at the Royal Needles Hotel to Marconi at Madeira House, discussing their experimental work, May 1898 Print of postcard of Bournemouth, with aerial at Madeira House drawn in by Kemp, c. 1898 Notes of transmitting and receiving equipment used at the Haven Hotel, Poole and Niton Station, Isle of Wight, with further notes on jiggers (nos. 224 and...

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Comprises: Wireless Telegraphy and Journalism: commemorative booklet published by the Dublin Daily Express. La Telegrafia Marconi e Il Giornalismo: commemorative booklet published in Bologna (largely a translation of the Daily Express booklet)