The contents are as follows:

(i) Legal papers, 1717-1803, concerning the Feddes and Wright families, Cromarty (ancestors of Hugh Miller) (folio 1);

(ii) Legal papers, 1855-1857, undated, concerning Hugh Miller and his dependents (folio 14);

(iii) Fragment of an abusive article on Hugh Miller, undated (folio 38);

(iv) Four letters, 1650-1758, including one of George Monck, the others relating to the family of Forbes of Culloden (folio 40);

(v) Letters and drafts of letters, 1842-1854, of Hugh Miller (folio 49);

(vi) Letters, 1822-1856, undated, to Hugh Miller, chiefly concerning his writings, church affairs, and geology (folio 81);

(vii) Family correspondence, 1853-1864, undated, mainly letters of condolence or business letters after Miller's death (folio 155);

(viii) Fourteen letters, 1843-1850, of Andrew Williamson, half-brother of Hugh Miller, to Margaret Macdonald (later his wife) (folio 188);

(ix) Photostats of five letters, 1807-1854, undated, from Hugh Miller's father to his mother, and from Richard Owen, Charles Darwin, Louis Agassiz, and Thomas Carlyle to Hugh Miller (folio 222).