The contents are as follows:

(ii) Letters of David, Earl of Buchan, to James Haig of Bemersyde, 1811;

(ii) Letter of Henry, Lord Brougham, to S Gray, ?1812;

(iii) Letter concerning William Glen, the poet, 1872;

(iv) Letters of Dean Farrar, Sir Alexander Grant and John Cairns, about a temperance meeting in Edinburgh, 1877-1878;

(v) Letter of ?Thomas Arthur, 1864;

(vi) A fragment of a letter of Matthew Arnold, undated.