8 pages of notes on multiplication and division, optics and reflection, hydraulics, heat, electricity, mechanics, cosmography and Kepler's laws.

Manuscripts and drafts of letters written by French writer Pierre Louÿs. Items include notes on writers and writing, drafts of letters, and a contract drafts for a work to be entitled Le livre ancien. Most items are undated, but fall roughly between the years 1889 and 1912.

A pair of essays describing "la mer vue de le cote, le soir au soleil couchant" from the viewpoints of an ancient Greek and a modern Frenchman. Date written in pencil in a different hand.

Notes commending the talent of Victor Hugo, quoting a line from Hernani.

A passage from Paul Valéry's "Fragments du Narcisse."

Manuscript booklet, with a note in Louÿs' hand that reads "Traduction de la Disputatio perjucunda (1595)."

A series of unbound notes and fragments, written on uniformly sized paper, treating topics from the Sorbonne to readings on historical subjects, Pierre Corneille and Madame Bovary.

Rough drafts of two letters, one written to a M. Bidou concerning Corneille, and another to a huissier (possibly) named Cormier.

Bound manuscript booklet in Louÿs' hand, containing a eulogy for a surgeon, Sabatier, headed "Institut Impérial." The cover the the booklet reads "Le Moniteur Universel, No. 215, du samedi 3 août 1811."

Poem clipped from a newspaper, with notes by Louÿs in German below.