The contents are as follows:

(i) Birth-brieve, 1635, of Isabel Hay, daughter of Francis, 9th Earl of Erroll (folio 1);

(ii) Part of 'A memorial of the most rare and wonderful thingis in Scotland', 17th century, concerning Orkney (folio 12);

(iii) Letters, circa 1641-1642, to Charles I on political matters (folio 14);

(iv) Translations, 20th century, of documents concerning William More, a preacher, 1648 (folio 18);

(v) Keys to ciphers, ?1698 (folio 23);

(vi) Records, 1666-1729, of the court of the barony of Ballikinrain (folio 31);

(vii) Report of the battle of Alexandria, 1801, and related papers (folio 41);

(viii) 'Observations on national diplomacy', eighteenth century (folio 46);

(ix) Copies of addresses, 1658-1863, including an open letter of William Dunlop ('Teegur Wull') to the Huron militia (folio 54);

(x) Excerptstracts from diaries, 1812-1840, including some 'from the journal of a Subalterns wife written in Canada', 1812-1814 (folio 62);

(xi) Printed and manuscript poems, 1715-1879 (folio 85);

(xii) Notices of marriages and deaths, 1834-1937, undated (folio 99);

(xiii) Miscellaneous items, 1804-1907, including papers of Alexander Graham Dunlop, 1860-1878, and a memorandum concerning and plan of Gairbraid estate, 1907 (folio 118).