The papers include:

German poem on the death of the terrier Camp, apparently by Henry Weber [?1809] (folio 14);

James Hogg's ‘Glen-Avin’, in his autograph (folio 16);

Prologue in Sir Walter Scott’s hand and apparently composed by him to ‘Helga’, probably the tragedy produced in Edinburgh in 1812 (folio 24);

Drawing of the Torrs Mask presented to Scott by Train, with a description of it by Joseph Train (folio 80);

Poem ‘To Time. By a lady’, in Scott’s hand, endorsed by him ‘To Time. W. B.’ [?Williamina Belsches], the document described by John Gibson Lockhart in his ‘Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott’, chapter vii, end;

Poem on a fallen woman, written out by Sophia Scott at the age of twelve, 1812 (folio 167);

Appreciation of the ‘Lady of the Lake’ extracted from Walter Boyd’s Memoirs of his Life in France (1813) (folio 179);

Poem of John Hughes on a thrashing given by Wilson (‘Christopher North’) to Lord Muncaster, [?1824] (folio 193);

Documents copied by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, with accompanying letters, including the song ‘John of Hasilgreen’ (folio 162) and a poem on Queen Mary by Ronsard (folio 217);

Copies of letters of Joseph Addison, 1711, 1719 (folio 62); and of Jonathan Swift, 1698, 1736, with information regarding the latter (folios 37, 220-223)