Included is a letter of Robert Burns to Richard Brown (‘The letters of Robert Burns’, volume I, page 211), and fragments of a vocabulary in his hand.

There is a series of ten watercolour and wash drawings by David Allan illustrating poems of Burns, one of which was engraved for ‘An introduction to the history of poetry in Scotland’ by Alexander Campbell (Edinburgh, 1798). Also included are letters from Walter Scott and Allan Cunningham on an edition of poems of Burns, and George Thomson on his edition of Scottish songs.