This notebook includes Hutchinson's suggested corrections for Virginia Thompson's Thailand, The New Siam , published in 1941; notes on Adrien Launay's Histoire de la mission de Siam, 1662-1811 , published in 1920; notes relevant to articles published in Journal of the Burma Research Society ; notes about Burma, Malay and other Southeast Asian countries; notes on a letter written to Général Baron on 26 Dec.1682; and writings on anthropometry.

Papers belonging to Edward Walter Hutchinson include: Manuscripts, Notebooks, Correspondence, Photographs, and Printed material

The majority of this notebook is about Thailand, which covers the industries, commerce, religion, people, beliefs and customs of the country. Writings on Catholic church in South Africa, and a study and sketches of human skulls, are also included in this notebook. Black notebook whose spine is held together with sticking plaster.