Autograph notebook of John Wallace, minister of Drumelzier, Peebleshire.
- Front paste-down endpaper, key to shorthand, [continued on pp.322-324], with signature of John Wallace.
- p.2 Costs, itemised in the hand of John Wallace, for building materials and cartage, on Sir [David ?] Murray's account, May 1710 by James Renton of Leith and for six loads of lime supplied 1711 for the manse of Drumelzier (Drumeller).
- p.4 Estimates, in a different hand, for the repair of the manse and church at Drumelzier given by William Hyslop and Thomas Laing masons, wrights, to the presbytery of Drumelzier.
- pp.5-9 Sermon notes
- pp.11-34 Compendium Logicae
- p.34 'Introduction to Navigation by arithmetick' [12 lines only]
- pp.35-280 Sermon notes. The first sermon is noted as delivered at Drumelzier on 5 April 1707. The notes were completed on 9 October 1718. [the notes read in reverse pagination and were originally paginated independently].
- p.310, 312, 314 Notes on theological and scriptural topics, arranged in three columns, each column reading independently.
- p.316, p.318, p.320 Notes in shorthand in the centre column of three ruled columns with, pp.318, 320 only, a continuation in the first and third columns of:pp.319, 321-322 Notes on European geography.
- pp.11-34 in ruled borders. Odd numbered blank pages ruled in three columns with ruled upper margin.