Letters of:

Admiral Lord Ancon (folio 1);

George Canning (folio 10);

Robert Clive (folio 12);

`Alfred Crowquill` (folio 17);

Allan Cunningham (folio 18);

King Edward VII (folio 23);

Lieutenant-General Charles Fleetwood (folio 27);

Warren Hastings (folio 33);

George Heriot (folio 35);

David Hume (folio 42);

Thomas Jefferson (folio 44);

Samuel Johnson (folio 46);

Hugh Miller (folio 59);

Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore (folio 63);

Admiral Sir Charles Napier (folio 67);

Sir Walter Scott (folio 82);

the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of Scotland (folio 89);

the Duke of Wellington (folio 94);

Sir Francis Windebank (folio 106); and,

Thomas Carlyle (folio 108).

A receipt for Secret Service money signed by King George III and William Pitt (folio 32).

Instructions by King James III to Sir Alexander Napier of Merchiston (folio 98).