Quarto. Manuscript on paper. 69pp. With nine sheets of manuscript notes/letters, and related ephemera (bookplates, newspaper clippings etc.), loosely inserted. With three engraved portraits and two armorial bookplates pasted-in. Contemporary gilt-ruled red limp morocco, Marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting.

A commonplace comprised of manuscript notes (and associated ephemera), in a single legible hand, exploring the genealogy of James Robertson Thomson (b. 1847), whose lineage may be traced back to William Kerr, Earl of Lothian (c.1605-1675), Scottish soldier and politician, heavily involved in the constitutional wranglings between Scotland and the English Parliament in the late 1640s, via the noble families of Rutherfoord, Robertson, and Cuthbertson.

Of note is the loose insertion of a two-page letter, dated 22nd July, 1746, in the hand of one John Rutherfoord of Knowsouth, memorialising his own family history (a later manuscript note to the verso records the date of his death as 29th July, 1788).