The contents are as follows:

(i) Papers concerning administration, defence, policy, and general matters, 1778-1815, undated (folio 1);

(ii) Papers concerning the Army, 1785-1811, 1828; administration, etc., including the question of the relative rank of the Company's and King’s officers (folio 129);

(iii) Letters of George Smith, Member of the Bengal Council, 1785-1791, to Henry Dundas or his clerk, William Cabell, containing information and proposals regarding finance, trade, crops, China, and general matters (folio 204).