The file comprises letters from Eirene Jones to her parents and brother Tristan Jones. Many were written during Continental travels and describe in some detail her experiences and activities; they include letters written at Paris, Edinburgh, Freiburg, Strasbourg, Heidelberg and Munich. There is also a small number of letters giving her initial impressions as an undergraduate student at Somerville College, Oxford, in the autumn of 1929.

Journal of George Crawshay for the period October 1836-May 1837, spent by him in Freiburg in the care of a German tutor. Comments on the journal by Edmund Esdaile, found loose insde the volume, have been tipped in on f. i verso.