The contents are as follows: Letter, 1757, of David Hume to Charles Binning, Vice-Dean of the faculty of Advocates, resigning the Curatorship of the Advocates’ Library (Adv.MS.20.2.21); Minutes, 1754-1762, of the Select Society of Edinburgh (Adv.MS.23.1.1);

A brief account of the formation of the Belles-Lettres Society, Edinburgh, in January 1759 (folio 1) and minutes of its meetings until 29 May 1761 (Adv.MS.23.3.4);

Copy of `An Account of the Number of People in Scotland`, Alexander Webster`s analysis of the population arranged by counties, 1755 (Adv.MS.35.1.9);

Letter of David Hume (MS.1005, folio 1);

Letter of David Hume (MS.1005, folio 7);

Proofs, [1759, circa 1770], of David Hume’s ‘History of England’, volume ii, pages 49-64, with autograph corrections by Hume (MS.1703a);

Letter, 1757, of David Hume (MS.1810, folio 83);

'List of the Poker Club, 1768', with a note, 1769, of sums paid by the members, etc. (MS.2208, folio 28);

"Records of the Literary Society of Glasgow, 1764-79. Transcribed from the Society's Minutes, 1830", by William James Duncan (MS.3114);

Letter of Voltaire (MS.3942, folio 103);

Letter of Edmund Burke (MS.3943, folio 19);

Letter of Ed. Gibson (MS.3943, folio 28);

Letter of Hugh Blair (MS.3944, folio 20);

'Four dissertations' (London, 1757) by David Hume, with proofs of two suppressed dissertations, 'Of suicide' and 'Of the immortality of the soul', with Hume's autograph corrections. (MS.509);

Journal, May 1783-April 1784, of Sir James Hall of Dunglass, 4th Baronet, of the journey from Edinburgh to Vienna (MS.6324);

'Memoranda for my history of England written in July 1745 or 46. David Hume. James Court, 1750.' (MS.732).