The great majority of the letters date from [circa 1850] to I853. A copy of a letter (1829) from James Chalmers to David Laing on the subject of the sale of the Hutton collection, of which the original is Adv.MS.29.4.2(i), folio 1, is included (folio 1). There is a long letter on vitrified forts (folio 11). Correspondents include Albert Way, founder of the [Royal] Archaeological Institute; David Laing; William B D D Turnbull; Patrick Chalmers (on Roman methods of crucifixion); James Giles, RSA; J Y Akerman; Thomas Pelham Dale; Charles Roach Smith; J W Papworth; Bishop William Reeves; Bishop William Basil Jones; Daniel Wilson; Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn; Algernon Herbert; and D O Hill.