The contents are as follows: Autograph corrections, 1827, by Sir Walter Scott to his 'Life of Napoleon Buonaparte', 2nd edition, volume iii (MS.1630);

Printed proof, 1822, of “Carle, now the King’s come!”, with corrections in Sir Walter Scott’s autograph (MS.1665 [F.5.f.17(2)]);

Manuscript copy of a Latin translation of the song "Carle, now the King's come!", [?1822] (MS.1666 [F.5.f.17(3)]);

“Verses written by the Countess of Wollenlief's request”, by Sir Walter Scott, 1832. (MS.2208, folio 41);

Copies of early poems, [before 1831], of Sir Walter Scott in the hand of Henry Mackenzie (MS.2536);

Poem, [?1831]; and, notes and letter, 1831, of Sir Walter Scott to his cousin William Scott; (MS.2890, folios 104, 221);

Three sets of proofs, [1831, or before], with manuscript corrections by Sir Walter Scott and others, of his Introduction to ‘Trial of Duncan Terig, alias Clerk, and Alexander Bane Macdonald, for the murder of Arthur Davis’ (MS.3168);

Three poems, in Sir Walter Scott's hand. 'To the cruel Lady of the Mountains', beginning 'Ah! Why wilt thou not be my Love', 1793; 'The Sang of the Outlaw Murray', written out, according to a note, for Christian Rutherford about 1797, a version occasionally differing from Herd's and that printed in the ‘Minstrelsy’; 'Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene', by Matthew Gregory Lewis, transcribed by Scott for Miss Rutherford, with slight variations from the printed text (MS.3220, folios 35-59);

Letter, 1830, of Sir Walter Scott to Alexander Pringle of Whytbank, containing a version of the ballad of the Scotts of Whitslade, pasted in a copy of Captain Walter Scot of Satchells, 'A true history of several honourable families of the right honourable name of Scot’ (Edinburgh, 1776), presented to Pringle by Sir Walter Scott (MS.3286);

'Life of Napolean Buonaparte' (Edinburgh, 1827), volume i, by Sir Walter Scott, with marginal corrections in the authors hand, 1827 (MS.3358).