Letters from Macdonald while serving in India to his family - mother, father, sister and aunts in Edinburgh, including a letter written at beginning of his voyage to India.
Miscellaneous personal papers of Macdonald including a letter from Basil Williams (his University lecturer) before he joined ICS, standing orders of Bihar Light Horse, rules of Balasore Station Club (1922) and copies of telegrams and cables.
Minutes of meetings, notifications, resolutions and rules of the Bihar and Orissa Indian Civil Service Association; also minutes of meetings of the Indian Civil Service (Central) Association.
Miscellaneous printed materials in Oriental languages mainly relating to Government propaganda on various matters including agriculture, war, the threat of communism and including an anti-Hitler poster.