Includes observations and anecdotes on contemporary Enlightenment figures including Dugald Stewart, James Boswell, Tobias Smollett and Lord Kames, and an inventory of Fraser Tytler’s publications up to 1793. Also included are copies of letters sent by David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes), and a number of verses by William Shenstone, Allan Ramsay, James Beattie and William Shakespeare translated into Latin by Fraser Tytler.

Includes notes and observations on contemporary Enlightenment figures.

Marked as volume 4, but refers to volume 5; there are no other volumes present. Tytler visited Manchester where he was given a tour by Archibald Bell.

Records an account of a visit to a house of an unidentified lady. Includes sketches of the landscape.

Included in the notebook are financial calculations for repairs of buildings. There are several sketches relating to building design.

The notebooks contain Latin and Greek translations of English verse, miscellaneous sketches, and some financial notes on the cost of improving the estate at Woodhouselee.

The volume, 1812, contains descriptions of Woodhouselee and surrounding area. Includes sketches and engravings of the estate, poems, songs and music written by those who visited. A series of letters and poems, 1894-1914, have been added by family members at the end.

Twenty one sketches of landscapes, including the Woodhouselee estate, and unidentified individuals.