The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The rise of English literature' (folio 1);

(ii)'Chaucer', incomplete (folio 23), with some fragments on the same subject (folio 34);

(iii) 'Chaucer to James 1' (folio 43);

(iv) 'Scottish poets - Henryson, Dunbar, Gavin Douglas' (folio 70);

(v) 'The invention of printing, Henry VII, Henry VIII' (folio 88).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The time of Henry VIII' (folio 1);

(ii) 'Ascham and translations of scripture' (folio 26);

(iii) 'Scottish writers, James V, Mary' (folio 38);

(iv) 'Spenser' (folio 52);

(v) 'Elizabethan prose writers' (folio 73).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'James VI - minor poets' (folio 1);

(ii) 'Charles I to Commonwealth' (folio 18);

(iii) 'Milton', incomplete (folio 36);

(iv) 'Marvell and Milton' (folio 52);

(v) 'Prose writers of Charles II and James II' (folio 78);

(vi) 'Dryden and Butler' (folio 96);

(vii) On early newspapers, incomplete (folio 110).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'William, Anne, and George I - drama, essayists' (folio 1);

(ii) 'Pope' (folio 17);

(iii) 'Swift, Addison' (folio 40);

(iv) 'Samuel Johnson' (folio 60), and a fragment on the same subject (folio 80);

(v) Two lectures on 'Daniel Defoe' (folios 84, 104);

(vi) 'Novelist - Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, etc.' (folio 116), and a fragment on Walpole (folio 136).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The ballads of Scotland' (folio 1), and two fragments on the same subject (folios 39, 51);

(ii) 'The ballads of modern Europe' (folio 57);

(iii) Four fragments on ballads (folios 79, 84, 90, 93);

(iv) 'Ballad poetry of Europe', delivered at Glasgow (folio 96);

(v) 'Oral literature', incomplete (folio 106).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The Poetry of Ossian and his times' (folio 1);

(ii) 'The dark ages' (folio 21);

(iii) 'The age of chivalry, the troubadours and the Anglo-Norman romances' (folio 39);

(iv) 'Roman de Rose, romances of King Arthur and Charlemagne, and Italian poems founded on the latter subject' (folio 59).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The Norsemen and their literature' (folio 1);

(ii) Two fragments on 'Norse history and influence' (folios 24, 25);

(iii) 'Song of the Nibelungen' (folio 43);

(iv) ‘On Anglo-Saxon literature’, incomplete (folio 66);

(v) Three lectures on 'Anglo-Saxon literature', the third incomplete (folios 76, 96, 110).

The contents are as follows:

(i) Two lectures on the 'Age of Homer' (folios 1, 24);

(ii) Two lectures on the 'Age of Greek drama' (folios 47, 76); with a translation from the "'Agamemnon' of Aeschylus" (folio 100).

There are six lectures, the third and fifth incomplete (folios 1, 30, 58, 81, 112, 134), and a fragment (folio 163).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'The rise of Roman literature', incomplete (folio 1), and four fragments on the same subject (folios 21, 27, 34, 39);

(ii) 'Ennius' (folio 49);

(iii) Two lectures on 'Virgil' (folios 63, 85);

(iv) 'Ovid' (folio 109), and a fragment on the same subject (folio 103).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Formal rhetoric', delivered in 1851 (folio 1);

(ii) 'Divisions of a discourse' (folio 63);

(iii) 'Conduct of a discourse' (folio 83);

(iv) Three lectures on 'The structure of sentences', the first apparently written before 1858 (folios 106, 127, 148), with fragments, 1846, on the same subject (folio 173).

The contents are as follows:

(i) 'Ornaments'; the subjects dealt with include arrangement, tropes, metaphor, epithets, and hyperbole (folio 1);

(ii) 'Personification' (folio 42);

(iii) Three lectures on 'Elocution' (folios 64, 87, 104);

(iv) 'Public speaking' (folio 132);

(v) 'Eloquence' (folio 164).

Most of the papers are undated and on unidentified subjects, many being brief or incomplete.

Most of the papers concern the affairs of John Campbell, when he succeeded his grandfather, Sir Hugh Campbell, to the estate of Calder in 1716. Others concern his estate in Islay, the factor of which was James Anderson, Writer to the Signet.

The contents are as follows. (i) Legal and financial papers of and concerning Christian Dalrymple, 1793-1838 (folio 1); (ii) Miscellaneous literary papers and notes, undated. Included are a story by Christian Dalrymple in Lord Hailes's hand beginning ‘Mambrino the Hero of this History was son of Mambrino Gulliver, Merchant of London', undated (folio 60), notes of places visited in England, 1816, 1819 (folio 75).

With other legal notes, early 17th century.

The papers comprise formal documents, correspondence, memorials, etc. (including many private papers), concerning legal actions raised by or against family members or their trustees. Most processes, unless described otherwise, relate mainly to disputes with tenants about debts, the terms of tacks, and other complications of tenancy.