The contents are as follows. (i) Accounts, correspondence and memoranda relating to gardens at Lochgelly and Melgund, 1726-1742 (folio 1);

(ii) Inventories of deed, 1620-1793 (folio 31);

(iii) Account of the family of Kinninmound of that Ilk, compiled by Andrew Chalmer, writer in Edinburgh, circa 1740. Another copy of this appears in Walter MacFarlane's genealogical collections, Adv.MS.35.4.8(ii), page 487 (volume 2, page 531 of the Scottish History Society edition, 1900) (folio 130);

(iv) Papers and correspondence relating to roads and railways in Fife, 1789-1825, 1841 (folio 139);

(v) Papers relating to the Southesk Bridge, 1784 (folio 243);

(vi) Correspondence relating to politics in Angus, 1781-1784 (folio 254);

(vii) Correspondence relating to politics in Fife, 1806-1807, 1858 (folio 282).