The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence, 1817-1866, concerning preferments in, and affairs of, the Church of Scotland (folio 1);

(ii) Correspondence, 1851-1870, concerning East Lothian county affairs, being largely letters concerning Lieutenancy business, and including material concerning popular disturbances, cholera statistics, Haddington New Club, tolls, and the building of the Corn Exchange at Haddington (folios 106).