The contents are as follows:

(i) Contract, 1794, of the Ogleface Friendly Society concerning the rental of property for a Hearse House (folio 1).

(ii) Photograph of a printed sheet, 1795, "Conditions on which the Ogleface Friendly Society's Hearse is let out" (folio 3).

(iii) 'Regulations of the Avonbridge New Hearse Society, instituted in 1842', printed, 1867 (folio 4).

(iv) Fragments of minutes of the society, 1858, 1860, and the Treasurer's Report, 1860-1862 (folio 6).

(v) Miscellaneous receipts, 1846-1875, mainly concerning repair of the hearse and the hearse house (folio 10).

(vi) Typed copies of newspaper articles by the donor based on the above manuscript material. 'Avonbridge, past and present', and 'Avonbridge, 1795', appeared in the 'Falkirk Herald' on the 11 January, 1958; 'Avonbridge in the eighteenth century' on 22 March 1958; and 'Avonbridge makes history' on 26 April, 1958 (folio 19).