The contents are as follows:

Statement of Deacon Brodie's affairs (folio 1);

Letter of Captain John Dent, of the ship in which Deacon Brodie attempted to escape, recommending 'Mr. John Dixon' (Brodie) to a friend at Ostend (folio 3);

Report of Groves, messenger-at-arms, on his visit to Ostend in pursuit of Brodie in June (folio 5);

Draft of a statement, pleading guilty, which George Smith intended to make, said to be in Smith's hand (folio 9);

Portion of the same statement in another hand (folio 11);

Letter of Brodie to the Town Council pleading for his sentence to be changed to transportation (folio 12);

Letter of Brodie to the Lord Provost, asking that his body be handed to Alexander Paterson (folio 14);

Letter, undated, of Thomas Langlands, Solicitor, to Creech, narrating the arrest of Brodie in Amsterdam (folio 15).

At the end (folio 17) is an undated letter of William Gatesby, 7th Foot, describing the robbery of the Dundee Bank in which he took part on the night of 16 February, 1788, and exculpating Falconer, Bruce, and Dick, who were sentenced for the crime. Gatesby was sentenced to death on another charge in 1790.