The contents are as follows.

(i) Papers concerning general affairs and trade, 1781-1823, undated, including debts owed by the Chinese at Canton to George Smith, a merchant there, and other British subjects; the trade in tin and tea; and affrays between the British and Chinese; with accounts of places on the route from India to China (folio 1);

(ii) The case of J J Voute and Sons and their purchase of tea, 1787-1788 (folio 214).