"The Self Sacrifice of Mr. Zero", pages 1-54, undated

The collection includes a number of Gathorne-Hardy notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence.

The notebooks in Series I span from his early writing career to late 1968 and include notes, research, and drafts of his works. Of interest is Gathorne-Hardy's peculiar habit to reverse the notebooks and write from back to front. His notebooks exhibit his disjointed thought process, often beginning an entry mid-sentence.

Writings in Series II include typescripts for Amalfi and Three Acres and a Mill., a corrected galley proof, and miscellaneous notes—possibly originally interleaved in the notebooks by Gathorne-Hardy.