The dates are taken from the records for the original documents and might not be the specific dates of the documents on the microfilm.

The contents are as follows: Letters to Sir Walter Scott, with other documents, 1827-1828, chiefly concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte (MS.885);

Letters to Sir Walter Scott, [?1825]-1828, with other documents, concerning the life of Napoleon Buonaparte (MS.886);

Exercise book containing notes in Sir Walter Scott's hand of information regarding Napoleon's abdication in 1814, supplied by Marshal Macdonald in conversation in 1826 (MS.887);

Excerpts from letters, 1814, of Colonel Sir Neil Campbell regarding Napoleon's banishment to Elba, with other notes, all in Sir Walter Scott's autograph (MS.888);

Notes, 1823, in Sir Walter Scott's autograph from 'Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène: journal of the private life and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena' by Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases (French edition). (MS.889);

Proofs, [1827, or before], of the 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte', volume v, pages 271-286 by Sir Walter Scott, with autograph corrections by Scott (MS.890);

Notes, poem and epilogue of Sir Walter Scott (MS.894, folio 35, 86-87);

Table of the maternal descent of Lord Somerville, [?1814], with title and note in Sir Walter Scott’s hand, as printed in the ‘Memorie of the Sommersvilles’ (MS.901, folio 163);

Part of Sir Walter Scott’s ‘Life of Napoleon Buonaparte’, chapter iii, in the hand of an amanuensis, with corrections in Scott’s autograph (MS.910, folios 9-22);

Notes and copies or excerpts from documents and printed books on historical and other subjects, [?1821-?1850], titled ‘Miscellaneous Papers and Notes’, chiefly in the hand of Sir Walter Scott (MS.911, numbers 5-7, 18, 24, 26 (folios 23-24, 50, 59, 80-81, 94, 101);

Prologue in Sir Walter Scott’s hand and apparently composed by him to ‘Helga’, probably the tragedy produced in Edinburgh in 1812 (MS.912, folio 24);

'Journal of a Tour to the Continent in Autumn, 1815, with Walter Scott, John Scott, Esqr., of Gala, and Alexr. Pringle, Younger of Whitebank', by Robert Bruce, Advocate, afterwards Sheriff of Argyll (MS.991).