Letter from Georgina Gregory, Canaan Lodge. It states that, "Principal Forbes particularly requested my brother, John Gregory, to give these M.S.S. to the University, which my brother had agreed to do. But circumstances prevented my brother from offering them to the University at the time."

The letter also described the collection as containing items papers of various members of the Gregory/Gregorie family and that a volume of Archibald Pitcairn's papers accompanies them.