The contents are as follows:

(i) Minutes of a meeting of the curators of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale, 3 March 1807 (folio 1);

(ii) Family legal papers, 1848-1854, chiefly concerning the Earl of Gifford and provision for members of the 8th Marquess of Tweeddale’s family (folio 4);

(iii) Military papers, 1811-1815 (folio 51);

(iv) Papers concerning agricultural affairs, 1823-1875, undated (folio 45);

(v) ‘Notes as to forms of books, transmitted to His Excellency the Marquies of Tweeddale, at Madras:- In September 1845’ (folio 112).