The contents are as follows:
Original manuscript, [1808, or before], of ‘Marmion’ by Sir Walter Scott (Adv.MS.19.1.16);
Original manuscript, [1824, or before], of ‘Redgauntlet’ by Sir Walter Scott (Adv.MS.19.2.29);
Presentation copy of Sir Walter Scott’s printed thesis on titles XXIV and XLVIII of the ‘Digest, Disputatio Juridica ... De Cadaveribus Damnatorum’ (Edinburgh, 1792), written for his admission to the Faculty of Advocates (Adv.MS.20.5.9);
Page from the Fourth Series (France) of ‘Tales of a Grandfather’ by Sir Walter Scott, in his autograph, together with relevant correspondence and a note by Sir William Fraser, [circa 1831] (Adv.MS.20.5.10).