File contains album with handwritten manuscript of Joseph Crawhall's "Two Newcastle apprentices" prepared for publication. The second section (leaves 1-80) is titled "Memoranda relating to Robert Johnson, pupil of Beilby & Bewick." Figures and illustrations are tipped in to indicate where they should be positioned in the book.

McDonald's correspondence, 1791-1860, mostly concerns business and property matters, but also includes personal correspondence. There are statements of account with McTavish, Frobisher & Co., 1799; with McTavish, Fraser & Co., 1803-1804; with McTavish, McGillivray & Co., 1808-1809. There are two volumes of autobiographical notes assembled in 1859 and covering the period 1791-1816.

There is a second copy of the autobiography, probably transcribed in the late 19th century. Written on the front fly leaf is the name: A.E. MacDonald. It has 63 leaves, and there are minor textual variants.

This copy of Ann Hobbs' The Discarded Daughter, a Tragedy was made from Philipps MS.23881 in the British Museum by J. Smith.

Two published papers about birds of Arizona and Massachusetts