The contents are as follows:

(i) Letters of Professor Adam Ferguson, Sir David Brewster, Sir Joseph Paxton, James Fergusson, the writer on architecture, and others, 1784-1888, undated (folio 1);

(ii) Letters of Ford Madox Brown, 1861-1885, undated (folio 31);

(iii) Drawings of stones at Isle and Dunscore, Dumfriesshire, carved with the Fergusson arms, undated (folio 52).