The contents include: letters to Thomas Mackay, social reformer, 1893-1908, undated (folios 16-33; see also MS.17908, folios 125-129); a petition for John Mackenzie, minister of Lochcarron, ?l801 (folio 36); lecture notes on the practice of medicine, l840, probably taken by John M Grant, second son of James, minister of Nairn (folio 68), and a note by John Laurie on salmon caught on a stretch of the Tweed, 1842 (folio 130).