The transcripts are of the following:

(i) Excerpts from 17 letters of Henry Mackenzie to William Craig (appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1792), 1774-1806, undated, dealing with Bath, travel, London, politics, the stage, and the ‘Mirror’ (folio 1);

(ii) Three letters of Samuel Rogers, the poet, to Henry Mackenzie, 1804-1805, containing the verses beginning ‘Sleep on and dream of heaven awhile’, for George Thomson’s collections, and literary news (folio 23);

(iii) Letter of Leclerc de Septchênes to Henry Mackenzie, 1783 (folio 34);

(iv) Letter of Louis Albert Necker to Margaret Mackenzie, daughter of Henry Mackenzie (in whose family Necker had lived in Edinburgh), 1825 (folio 36).