Notebooks include:

Notebook of John Murray III, on trips to fossil footprints found in red sandstone at Corncockle Muir, Dumfriesshire

Notebook of John Murray III, including notes on printing numbers of various magazines in 1829 and copies of publishing rejection letters, 1829-33

Notebook of John Murray III, including geological notes and notes on errors and common misconceptions, with newspaper clippings enclosed

Notebook of John Murray III, containing accounts of selling books (including works of Lord Byron and George Crabbe) around England, with notes on Lord Byron, including a note: "This day Lord Byron and Walter Scott met for the first time."

Notebook of John Murray III, with literary and historical notes, including on Walter Scott and Lord Byron

Notebook of John Murray III, including notes on proposed Dictionary of Natural History (Geology, Botany, Fossil Botany, Conchology, Insects, Zoology, Man, Fishes, Birds, Osteology and Mineralogy), proposed Biographical Dictionary, proposed geographical work and travel notes

Drawing and notes of Sophia Kilvert, of jewel given to the Earl of Essex by Queen Elizabeth I in 1575