The contents are as follows:

(i) Correspondence of Phoebe Anna Traquair, 1890-1948 (folio 1); (ii) Poems in her hand dated Aberdour, 1883 (folio 215); (iii) Miscellaneous of notes, undated (folio 224).

The major part of the correspondence is from Lieutenant-Colonel William E Moss, her nephew, and from her two sons, Harry, a surgeon in Edinburgh, and Ramsay, an architect in Montreal.