The correspondence chiefly concerns William Skeoch Cumming's work as an illustrator, painter, and designer of tapestries, but it also reflects his interest in Highland history and dress. There are a few of Cumming's own letters, written while on active service during the Boer War, and some from Pittendrigh Macgillivray, the sculptor. There is also a series of letters from the Marquess of Bute concerning the establishment of the Dovecot Tapestry Studio at Corstorphine and the effect on it of the 1914-1918 War, and discussing the designs of the tapestries themselves. The correspondence also concerns the Scottish Pageant of 1908, and Cumming's financial difficulties.