The contents are as follows:

(i) Abstracts of accounts, 1861-1878, of Peter Burns Swinton, factor (folio 1);

(ii) Abstracts of accounts, 1861-1870, with Gibson Craig, Dalziel and Brodies, Writer to the Signet (folio 74);

(iii) Accounts, 1861-1895, of improvement expenditure (folio 90);

(iv) Farm accounts, 1868-1876 for Yester Mains, Broadwoodside, Danskine, Newhall and Bankrugg (folio 118);

(v) Extracts from accounts, 1876-1877, for Yester stables (folio 221);

(vi) Executry estate of the 9th Marquess of Tweeddale, 1879 (folio 225);

(vii) Estimate of expenditure on the Yester establishment, 1879-1880, with a memorandum, 1879, 'as to alterations on Yester establishment' (folio 233);

(viii) Papers, 1879-1880, concerning the collection of rents (folio 246);

(ix) Statements of income and expenditure, 1892-1893, 1904-1905, for Yester estate (folio 243).