The contents are as follows: Letters, 1792-1817, chiefly of Sir Walter Scott (MS.2525);

Letters, 1818-1823, chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, and a fragment in Scott's hand of an article which was published in the ‘Edinburgh Weekly Journal’, 7 February 1821, over the signature 'A Modest Whig'. (MS.2526); 

Letters chiefly of Sir Walter Scott, 1823-1831, undated (MS.2527).