The subjects are generally matters of family interest. The family were Jacobites, out in both 1715 and 1745 risings, and in exile in France from 1746 to 1763, but there is comparatively little correspondence on political matters. Correspondence of Laurence Oliphant of Condie, mainly concerning the recovery of Gask after its forfeiture, and other letters which appear to have come into his hands, have been kept separate (Adv.MS.82.1.13).