The pocket diary contains:

• Elegiac lines to the memory of Maurice Margarot by Clio Rickman
• A fragment by Clio Rickman
• Impromptu Reply to Impertinence by Clio [Rickman]
• A mathematical riddle on the name of Napoleon Buonaparte
• Passport issued to William Bland, 1816 to travel from London to Paris via Calais
• Half sheet of a letter about procuring certain Roman coins the writer requires and how much he is willing to pay. On the back is a sentence about Voltaire and ‘this blockhead Lewis’.