The collection comprises papers illustrating Taylor's involvement with medical jurisprudence, with particular focus on poisons. It contains material from Taylor’s time at Guy’s Hospital, where he was both a student and a lecturer, including correspondence, articles and reports relating to court cases for which he was summoned as an expert witness, letters relating to arsenic within wallpaper and associated wallpaper samples, his publication 'Elements of Medical Jurisprudence', obituaries, and ephemera.