From the dates that occur on pages 245 and 421 and intermediate pages, the greater part of the book seems to have been written between 1696 and 1701, but some additions must have been made at least as late as 1702 (see date on page 257).

Also included is an additional order of 1753 (folio 35). Besides purely military matters, the orders relate to conduct outside barracks, gaming, drinking, etc. General orders for all three Regiments of Foot Guards, 1751, are given at folio 13. At the end is a list of officers dated 1751 (folio iv).

Contains correspondence and papers concerning radar in World War II, the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors, 1951, and other activities and interests.

Includes photographs, articles and printed books.

With these papers were some of David Herd (see MSS.1924-1928).

The verso of the front flyleaf is inscribed 'Non est mortale quod opto' in an unidentified eighteenth-century hand.

The general arrangement is that of the first printed edition of 1681, but the text is in places shorter and slightly different.

The book is signed 'Jedburgh, Nov. 1671'. There are legal notes, some in the hand of Robert Ker, 4th Lord Jedburgh, on folios 1 verso-2 and 170-181.

The book is in several hands.

There are miscellaneous legal notes, some in the hand of Robert Ker, 4th Lord Jedburgh, on folios 215-220.

William Soutar's output of work, most of it produced during the last thirteen bed-ridden years of his life, is quite remarkable. Apart from his regular and lively correspondence, and his poetry both in English and in Scots, he left a long sequence of diaries and journals, as well as a record of his dreams extending over more than twenty years.

The Nisbet papers fall into four groups, belonging respectively to the Nisbets of that Ilk, the original owners of the estate; the Kers (later Carres) of Cavers and West Nisbet; who acquired the estate in 1649; the Chisholmes of that Ilk, connected by marriage to Charles St Clair, 15th Lord Sinclair, who succeeded to the estate some time before 1813; and William Molleson, probably related to the sister of Charles St Clair, de jure 13th Lord Sinclair.

Manuscripts, typescripts and proofs of poetry and prose works, including books, articles, lectures and notes. Much of the material is fragmentary, and some was reworked or copied by Hugh MacDiarmid at a later date.

A printed book with blank spaces for the insertion of the signals ordered by a particular command. Copy issued by Admiral Sir Charles Saunders, Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean, to the Honourable Charles Napier, commanding H M S Cygnet, 1760-1761, with the blanks filled up in manuscript, manuscript instructions pasted in, and coloured illustrations in the margin.

The manuscript additions consist of small verbal changes, and notes of more recent or apposite cases.

Constitutions, reports, minutes, correspondence, financial records and printed books, 1846–2001, of Donaldson's Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Institution for the Education of Deaf and Dumb Children and, from 1938, Donaldson's School.

Printed books collected by Robert Boothby. Some of the books are copies of those written by Robert Boothby, while others may contain an excerpt by or about Robert Boothby, and others were deemed important enough by Robert Boothby to keep with his personal papers.

Includes copies of various publications and sound recordings featuring works by or concerning Alasdair Gray.

There are also several LPs from Decemberism records, not related to Alasdair Gray, but presumably gifted to him after their release of 'Some Gray stuff' (2006).

Including manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories, lectures and articles, with scripts of radio broadcasts, notebooks and correspondence.

Manuscripts of prose fiction by Naomi Mitchison. Also includes two stories which appear to be written by Dick Mitchison and Thea Griffiths.

The 'pratickes' begin on folio 14. Some decisions of 1590-1591 and 1627-1630 are noted on folios 1-13.