Material includes:
- a notebook relating to the 'Mortmere' stories, containing drafts of Upward's poem 'Tale of a Scholar';
- a notebook relating to an abandoned novel set in a Golf Club;
- notebooks relating to various talks;
- a copy of the anthology published by New Directions (New York, 1949) containing 'The Railway Accident' by Allen Chalmers [Edward Upward];
- various stories and other texts in autograph and in typescript;
- 'The Autobiography of a Nonagenarian'.