The contents are as follows:

(i) Photographs of Robert Kirk Dickson as a naval cadet, Midshipman, Lieutenant, Captain and Rear-Admiral (folio 1);

(ii) Holiday photographs, July 1931, of scenery in the Tyrol (folio 8);

(iii) Miscellaneous photographs (folio 33);

(iv) Letter, 7 August 1939, of Robert Kirk Dickson to his father enclosing press cuttings, supplied by a press cutting agency, of the King's visit to Greenwich in July 1939 (folio 60);

(v) Press cutting, 18 May 1945, of a photograph of Robert Kirk Dickson and others en route to the News Chronicle Victory at Sea Exhibition (folio 73);

(vi) Miscellaneous papers, being largely notes by William Kirk Dickson for letters to his son (folio 74).