The material is somewhat confused, but appears to fall into four parts.

(i) Trips from Glasgow to Paisley, Ayr and Mauchline, 16-19 August 1818, mostly concerned with information about Robert Burns (folios 1-3, 102-105).

(ii) 'My Pocketbook'; possibly plans for a walking tour starting at Rothesay and ending at Edinburgh. A circuitous route involving places in the Lothians, Fife, Perthshire, Angus, Stirlingshire and Berwickshire is indicated; factual comments on these places, perhaps taken from guidebooks, are given, with the length of stages between each place noted in miles (folio 4).

(iii) A journal of a walking tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow, 27 August-21 September 1818. The route included visits to Stirling, Perth, the Trossachs, Oban, Iona, Dumbarton, and New Lanark; there are comments on the weather, accommodation and inhabitants, and lists of the names of plants observed (folio 44).

(iv) A 'list of Boxes and their contents' (folio 68 verso).

Blank folios separate the four sections. On folio 1 is the writer's name and various notes.