The contents are as follows:

(i) Transcripts of letters, 1857-1858, undated, to the 10th Marquess of Tweeddale at Simla, being chiefly transcripts of letters in MS.14468, folios 74-375 (folio 1);

(ii) Letters, 1859-1871, undated, from India, with correspondents including the novelist, John Lang (folio 120);

(iii) Correspondence, 1864-1865, largely topographical, concerning Russia, including letters of Edwin E Bishop and Alexander Keith Johnston (folio 226).