The contents are as follows.

(i) Two sets of corrections to T G Stevenson's 'Sempill ballates’, with notes (folio 1);

(ii) Popular rhymes (folio 17), with a girls' singing-game (folio 28) and a skipping-rope rhyme (folio 29);

(iii) Children's rhymes and a game (folio 30);

(iv) Proverbs and sayings (folio 47);

(v) Stories (folio 57);

(vi) Miscellaneous verse and prose (folio 64), including copies of five poems of Henry Scott Riddell (folio 78) and of a rhyme of John Masefield, 1924 (folio 93), and translations into English of Italian popular and children's rhymes (folio 99);

(vii) Music of three songs (folio 108);

(viii) Verse and prose by or relating to members of the Rymour Club (folio 112);

(ix) Miscellaneous (folio 126).