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Photographs of Kenneth MacMillan's birth family including grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles and nephews. Many photographs include Kenneth MacMillan with different family members and at family functions. There are two hand tinted head and shoulders photographs of Kenneth MacMillan as a young boy. Some photographs have annotations on the reverse

Jann Parry's notes on Kenneth MacMillan's family and of interviews with family members

1. Family tree showing six generations with dates and occupations. One page typed with written additions.
2. Five pages of typed notes taken from Dunfermline Census records.
3. One page of typed excerpts from Dunfermline newspaper, 22 Mar 1958.
4. Four pages photocopied from The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning, and History by George F. Black, published by The New York Public Library and Readex Books.
5. One printed Family Surname History in paper cover, with seal of the Library of the Hall of Names, London (large)

These typed and hand-written pages of notes and drafts for Kenneth MacMillan's memoirs cover his early life experiences and impressions. Many descriptions and incidents are repeated. There are some notes on scrap paper listing synonyms and experimenting with words and phrases. The pages were organised by Jann Parry during research for her commissioned biography of Kenneth MacMillan and these groupings have been retained together with her hand written headings and descriptions where they appear. Groupings are as follows with Jann Parry's titles in inverted commas:

1. Title page and eight pages of some of the handwritten pages, first page retyped with slightly amended layout
2. Eight handwritten pages covering his parents' meeting and marriage, and his early life. Pages are numbered in pencil 1-8
3. Four pages, handwritten on 6 sides. 'Early Erotic Experiences'. Pages are numbered in red ink with KEEP written in red ink on the reverse of page 2
4. Seven handwritten pages. 'Announcement of War. Parents' Lovemaking'
5. 22 handwritten pages about his sisters, 'Jean and Betty'
6. Eight handwritten pages. 'Cinema. Great Yarmouth', details his early interest in cinema and how it affected his relationships
7. 17 handwritten pages. 'Jean notes. Drafts of family story'
8. 16 handwritten pages. 'Father's death'. Details visit to his father's deathbed in hospital, attitude to doctors, inability to show emotion
9. One handwritten page about his father's attitude to doctors
10. 32 pages of notes, some on scrap paper, an envelope, three pages of a Concorde notebook, a letter. 'Scraps/Drafts' with many repetitions, lists of synonyms and experimenting with words and phrases