The contents are as follows.

(i) Letters of Captain Malcolm Macleod and Captain Charles Stuart, successive Commandants of Barasat, to the 1st Earl of Minto, 1808 (folio 1);

(ii) Proceedings of a special committee assembled by order of Major-General Sir Ewan Baillie under instructions from the Governor-General in Council, 13 April 1809 (folio 44);

(iii) Unsigned memorandum, 15 April 1809 (folio 51);

(iv) Memoranda by Captain Charles Stuart, August-October 1809 (folio 53);

(v) 'Extracts from (and Remarks upon those Extracts from) the Paper of Instructions for the guidance of the Board of Enquiry, into the Institution at Barasat by Lt. Col. Prole, Member of the Board', 1809 (folio 68);

(vi) Memoranda by J Young concerning military education in Bengal, December 1809 (folio 76).