The contents are as follows:

(i) Gaelic texts of a tale and two songs (folio 1);

(ii) Letters, notes, and texts of Gaelic poems from the Lochaber area, sent by the Reverend John Walker Macintyre, Minister of Kilmonivaig, to the Reverend A J Macdonald in 1911 (folio 6);

(iii) Copies, made in 1897, of seventeenth-century papers belonging to the Earls of Antrim (folio 29);

(iv) A letter and two documents relating to the Macdonalds of Sleat, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (folio 48);

(v) Eighteenth-century collection of songs and verses, Scottish, English, and Irish (folio 53);

(vi) 'Arg-les Levie or Duke Daniel - A new ballad by Colon[le] Charters’, eighteenth century (folio 68);

(vii) Fragment of text in the hand of the Reverend A J Macdonald (folio 72).