The contents are as follows. (i) Memorandum of Major (later Major-General) William Reid, Royal Engineers, 20 December 1836, on the naval operations off Northern Spain and the civil war in Biscay and Navarre (folio 1); (ii) Correspondence and papers, 1835-1837, with copies of documents, 1822 and 1830, on the administration of the Royal Naval College, on the Greenwich Hospital Schools, and on naval education in general (folio 9).