The ledger contains spinning accounts between 1806 and 1824, bleaching accounts 1806 to 1818, weaving accounts 1804 to 1824, flax accounts 1806 to 1824, general statements 1804 to 1839 and annual check account 1824 to 1846.
The notebook contains notes on experiments that were carried out by John Marshall. This notebook contains notes on experiments on spinning tow, wetting the yarn, spinning from cards and laying out flax from a hackle. The experiments are numbered between 1 and 17.
The ledger contains records of the yarn and thread account 1813 to 1823, the flax account 1815 to 1822, the weaving account 1817 to 1822 and general statements between 1824 and 1837.