The contents are as follows.

(i) Photostats of manuscripts in the University Library, Cambridge, illustrating Edmund Castell's use of shorthand, namely, Dd.xi.39, page 5 and odd scraps; Dd.vi.4, pages 2-3, 30-45, 52-53, 60-63, 66-87, 90-101, 114-115, 118-121, 130-131, 136-145, 148-157, 164-169, 172-173, 176-181, 206-207, 366-367, 370-377, 382-421, 424-429, 431-432, 436-461. The pages after page 206 are with some exceptions inverted in the original, and the photostats have been bound correspondingly. The manuscripts, which are described in the 'Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge' (Cambridge, 1856-1861), and described and transcribed in a St Andrews University thesis on Edmund Castell by the donor, contain notes on versions of the Bible, copies of letters of Castell, etc., and range in date from 1651 to 1672. (Folio 1.)

(ii) Manuscripts in the University of Basle: letters to Johannes Buxtorf, the Hebrew scholar, from Brian Walton, Bishop of Chester, 1656-1661 (folio 85), and from Edmund Castell, 1656-1664 (folio 93).