Unless specified otherwise, letters are addressed to Warren Hastings Anderson.

The contents are as follows.

(i) Letters, 1814, undated, of Hew Grant of Rockville. (Folio 1.)

(ii) Letter, 5 November 1823, of Warren Hastings Anderson to the Earl of Elgin, with Elgin's reply, concerning the appointment of Elgin as President of the Society of Antiquaries. (Folio 3.)

(iii) Letter, 1828, of Warren Hastings Anderson to the Sicilian diplomatist and politician, Pietro Lanza, Principe di Scordia e di Butera, with letters, 1828-1841, of Butera to Anderson and his wife. These letters include descriptions of visits to Siberia, 1836, and Sweden, 1840, and of the appearance and disappearance of a volcanic island between Sicily and Pantelleria in 1831, as well as many personal matters. (Folio 10.)

(iv) Correspondence, 1832-1835, concerning the education of David, son of Warren Hastings Anderson. (Folio 89.)

(v) Letters, October 1843, of the Earl of Haddington and of the Earl of Dalhousie concerning the post of British Consul at Leghorn, with other letters, 1843-1847, of Dalhousie concerning other patronage matters. (Folio 108.)

(vi) Drafts of letters, 1846, 1852, of Warren Hastings Anderson to the Count von Ficquelmont, with a letter, 1852, of Ficquelmont, concerning the appointment of Anderson's son, Frederick, as an officer in the Austrian Dragoons. (Folio 121.)

(vii) Letters, 1848, of the Baron de Poilly concerning the political situation in France. (Folio 127.)

(viii) Letters, 1857, 1863, of Charles Ottley at Florence on personal matters. (Folio 135.)

(ix) Miscellaneous correspondence, 1843-1924, undated. (Folio 147.)