The 1963 volume contains only one journal entry on page 24. The volume also contains lists of Christmas cards and gifts from 1961-1963 not in Robbins Anderson's handwriting.
The collection comprises forty-seven journals begun while Robbins Battell Anderson was a freshman at Yale and continuing throughout his life, containing almost daily entries of his activities. More in-depth material includes entries relating to the attack on Pearl Harbor and political commentary on wartime events.