The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence, 1850-1857, largely military, of Lord Charles Edward Hay (folio 1);

(ii) Letters, chiefly undated, but circa 1850-1858, of Lady Blanche Balfour of Whittinghame to Lady (Jane) Taylor (folio 112);

(iii) Letters, 1846-1876, undated, to Lady (Jane) Taylor, being chiefly letters of her cousins - Lady Victoria Susan Talbot, Viscountess Ossulston, the Marchioness of Ely, Lady (Georgina Frederica) Baillie of Dochfour, and Lady (Edith Christian) Fergusson of Kilkerran - and letters concerning the last illness and death of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (folio 205).