The contents are as follows:

(i) Merchants' bills: Brown and Croumbie, Haddington, for tools and materials, 1770-1780 (folio 1); Robert Bull and Sons, Edinburgh, for nails, 1765-1766 (folio 12); William Cadell and Sons, Haddington, for materials, 1762-1768 (folio 15);

(ii) Smiths' bills, 1762-1784 (folio 22);

(iii) Wrights' bills, 1763-1783 (folio 66);

(iv) Masons' bills, 1763-1784 (folio 106);

(v) Slaters' bills, 1763-1782 (folio 157);

(vi) Plumbers' bills, 1764-1767, 1782 (folio 171);

(vii) Plasterers' bills, 1759-1782 (folio 174);

(viii) Glaziers' bills, 1750-1775 (folio 180);

(ix) Painters' bills, 1757-1782 (folio 193);

(x) Building account, 1781, for the New Chapel, Edinburgh (folio 204);

(xi) Various papers, 1781-1782, concerning building at Tweeddale House (folio 205);

(xii) Various building accounts, 1758-1784, chiefly for farm buildings and tenants’ houses (folio 217).