The papers concern the following:

(i) West Indies, 1791-1819, undated - situation, campaigns, estate-owners, slaves; also the discovery of Grande Island off Brazil and the expedition to Buenos Ayres of 1806 (folio 1);

(ii) Russia and the Northern Confederation, 1789, 1800-1801, undated, with information supplied by Joseph Billings about his voyage to North-Eastern Asia and the American coast (folio 148);

(iii)Prisoners of War, 1795, 1810-1811 (folio 218).