The file is an index to slides intended for illustrating the book. Entries include Mary Richards herself and associated people, places, plants, animals, insects and birds, in both Wales and Africa, 1946-1971.

The file comprises a small notebook listing the contents of Mary Richards' library, in the handwriting of Penny Condry, with additions by William Condry (1977), a spiral-bound notebook containing genealogy of the Richards family, biographical details of Mary Richards, her botanical education and life in Africa, and Condry's plan for the book which was published posthumously in 1998, and a notepad with deleted entries for events in Mary Richards'life, under chapter headings 1-14.