The contents are as follows. (i) 'Of the history of antient Greece compared with the antient history of Egypt', I766. (Folio 1.) Monboddo number 85. (ii) 'Of antient Egypt', 1769. (Folio 12.) Monboddo number 86. (iii) 'Of the heroick history of Greece', 1769. (Folio 33.) The wrapper is also dated 1778. Monboddo number 1. (iv) 'Of the Persian invasion of Greece under Xerxes', 1770. (Folio 58.) Monboddo number 107. (v) Papers on Herodotus and other Greek historians, 1772, 1782, undated. (Folio 69.) Monboddo numbers 194, 43, 129, 97, 42. (vi) Fragmentary papers on Roman history, 1779, undated. (Folio 134.) Monboddo numbers 113, 127, 200. (vii) 'Of chronology, and the Greek, Roman and Egyptian year', undated. (Folio 169.) Monboddo number 103.