The contents are as follows:

(i) James Hogg's original manuscript of 'Translation from an ancient Chaldee manuscript', and a covering letter, 1817 (folio 1);

(ii) Corrected and uncorrected galley proofs of the work (folio 5);

(iii) Four sets of corrected and uncorrected page proofs (folio 14);

(iv) Four letters of Hogg, 1817, 1818, and 1820, and manuscript notes, undated, on the 'Chaldee Manuscript' (folio 34);

(v) Manuscript of 'The boar', Hogg's apparently unpublished continuation of the 'Chaldee Manuscript' (folio 44);

(vi) Printed summons, 1817, of damages brought against Blackwood by John Graham Dalyell, and manuscript discharge, 1818, of Dalyell to Blackwood (folio 48);

(vii) Letter, 1818, of William Blackwood to Robert Miller, and Miller's reply (folio 52);

(viii) Manuscript of 'Introductory note' and 'Marginal notes on the Chaldee Manuscript' by J F Ferrier, published in revised form in his edition of 'Noctes ambrosianae'; with a letter, 1855, of J F Ferrier to Blackwood concerning this edition (folio 56);

(ix) Letter, 1896, of James Hogg's daughter, Mrs M G Garden, concerning the 'Chaldee Manuscript' (folio 64).