The fonds comprises materials chronicling Ian Slater's writing career. It includes 79 5 ¼-inch computer floppy disks, which contain both published and unpublished manuscripts of Slater's fictional works in digital format, dating from 1981 to 1998. These dates are based on the last modified dates of the digital files. All digital manuscripts were originally typed in plain-text format on DOS 3.1 or 3.2. The fonds also includes a heavily-annotated copy of the second (2003) edition of Slater's Orwell: The Road To Airstrip One.