The contents are as follows:
Typescripts of letters, 1782-1801, 1912, undated, of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville, to his brother Robert, Lord President of the Court of Session, and others (MS.10225);
Diaries, 1825-1852, of Lady Hislop (MS.13141-13144);
Pocket-book, 1846-1847, of Lady Hislop containing notes of correspondence (MS.13145);
Commonplace book, 1826-1827, of Lady Hislop (MS.13146);
Personal account book, 1836-1848, of Lady Hislop with Messrs Coutts and Company (MS.13147);
Account books, 1843-1882, of Lady Hislop's trustees and executors with Messrs Coutts and Company (MSS.13148-13153);
Diary, 1891, of Elizabeth Lucy Ramsay, daughter of John Ramsay of Kildalton, written when she was 14 (MS.15904);
Journal of a tour in England and Scotland from August to October 1790, by an unnamed writer (MS.15905);
Journal of a Miss Ewbank of York, covering the period 9 September 1803 to 11 September 1805 (MS.9481);
Journal and reminiscences, 1810-1831, of Miss M E McCulloch (later Ross). (MS.9482).
