The contents are as follows. (i) Letters, 1924-1935, concerned with the purchase of Mary, Queen of Scots, manuscripts (1924), and with the business of the National Library Board of Trustees (folio 1); (ii-xi) 'Miscellaneous documents', 1922-1936, as follows. (ii) Copy of a letter, 1922, of Sir Frederick Kenyon, British Museum, to Dr W K Dickson on a Treasury grant to the Advocates' Library (folio 68); (iii) Correspondence with Sir John Lamb and Lord Novar (Secretary for Scotland) on the transfer of the Library to the nation (folio 69); (iv) Letter, 1925, of A Davidson Cook on the Scott and Burns manuscripts of A J Law (folio 83); (v) Reports and memoranda of the Books and Manuscripts Sub-committee of the National Library Trustees, 1926 (folio 85); (vi) Copy, 1926, of borrowing regulations for advocates (folio 95); (vii) Copy [?1926], of general National Library regulations and readers' application form (folio 103); (viii) Memorandum for Trustees, 1927, on the general catalogue of printed books (folio 103); (ix) Copy of representations, 1929, of the Convention of Royal Burghs on inadequate financing of the National Library and the Scottish Record Office (folio 104); (x) Copy of the Cockburn Association's ‘Report for 1929’, referring to the site for a new building for the National Library (folio 107); (xi) List [printed], December 1936, of desiderata for the Library: books by Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh (folio 129).