Collection of loose-leaf manuscript verses by Jacobite poet and army officer William Hamilton of Bangour (1704-1754), together with related material. The collection appears to have emanated from a member of the Pringle family, who were related to Hamilton by marriage.

The majority of the poems in this collection can be found either in the contemporary editions of Hamilton's poems, or in the later 1850 edition (see Bibliography). However, most of the present manuscript poems differ by varying degrees from those in the published works, and four have never been published. The unknown poems include an epitaph on Hamilton's wife, Catherine or Kathleen Hall, who died in 1745 (see Coll-2023/1/6, "Manuscript entitled: "Epitaph on Mrs. Hn. 1745"").

Some of the manuscripts appear to be in Hamilton's own hand. Others appear to be in a secretarial hand, though perhaps Hamilton himself had a neater hand when copying poems out for representation.