Margaret Loudoun's pencilled signature, dated 1809, is at folio i. (Some of the poems, at folios 28 verso and 42 verso, and possibly at folios 5 verso and 8, are addressed to her.) The poems, several of which are by (or a few, to) Francis Jeffrey are dated between 1793 and 1809: the leaves are watermarked 1803. A leaf has been cut out between folios 19 and 20.