The contents are as follows.

(i) Correspondence, 1698-1830, undated. Most of the letters are to Captain Robert Urquhart (died 1741) and his wife, Mary, on personal and legal matters. Among the correspondents are several members of the Forbes family of Culloden, who were related to Mary Urquhart. There are also some letters to Robert's two elder sons, and to his grandson, Colonel Duncan Urquhart, and a few miscellaneous letters, including one, 1830, of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder to the Reverend George Gordon, on scientific matters. (Folio 1.)

(ii) Legal and financial papers of the Urquharts, 1697-1783, undated. (Folio 83.)

(iii) Legal papers, 1733-1858, not connected with the Urquharts. These are chiefly wills of parishioners of St Fergus, and may have been collected by the minister, James Anderson, who wrote many of them. (Folio 107.)