Many of the papers relate to Sir Thomas Frederick Elliot’s time in the Colonial Office (folio 1). In addition there are miscellaneous literary works including biographical notices of Elliot, 1828, 1868, undated, ‘Letters to a Colonist from his Partner in England’, 1850, and ‘A Discourse on Table Rapping’, 1867 (folio 176), and papers concerning the marriage settlement and executry of Elliot and his second wife, Elizabeth Bromley, 1868-1880.