The contents are as follows: (i) Photographs of the original manuscript (folio 1, 2, 5, 6); (ii) Letters, 1894, 1918, to the publisher, David Douglas, about the edition (folios 3, 7, 10, 18-48); (iii) A copy with manuscript corrections of pages 73-88 of the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part VII (London, 1893) (the first publication of Lowther's journal) (folio 11); (iv) Press cuttings, 1894, containing reviews of the book (folio 50); (v) A draft printing of the appendix to the book before correction (folio 58); (vi) A copy of H P Macmillan, 'The Court of Session in 1629' in ‘Juridical review’, volume xxii, pages 137-142 (folio 64); (vii) A manuscript copy of an account of a visit to the Antonine Wall in 1697 taken from the ‘Thirteenth report of the Historical Manuscripts Commission’, Appendix, Part II, pages 54-57 (folio 68).