The papers include:

A letter, 1655, from William Douglas, afterwards Lord Mordington, to Lady Alexander, on the affairs of the son and widow of Archibald, Earl of Angus (folio 11);

'Double of the rentall given in be Duntroon', probably David Graham of Duntrune, of lands in the parishes of Dundee, Tealing, Mains, and Monikie, the customs of the fish-fair of Dundee, the passage of the water of Tay, etc., 1695 (folio 15);

Letter, 1810, of Mr Home, Signet Office, to Sir Walter Scott regarding the affairs of Henry Siddons (folio 16);

Letter, 1831, of Adam Black on the sales of the Waverley Novels (folio 18);

Three letters, 1894, 1896, undated, to Scott Rankin (folio 20).