The contents are as follows:

(i) Twenty-seven letters, 1798-1799, of Sir J T Duckworth to General Sir Charles Stuart, and four letters, 1798-1799, of Lord Keith to General Stuart (folio 1);

(ii) Two letters, 1803-1804, of Hugh Elliot to Sir John Acton (folio 49);

(iii) Eight letters, 1804, of Admiral Lord Alan Gardner to Viscount Melville (folio 54);

(iv) Letter, 1795, of George III to Viscount Melville (folio 71); printed in John Holland Rose, ‘Pitt and Napoleon, essays and letters’ (London, 1912), pages 237-238.

(v) Letter, 1805, of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope to Viscount Melville (folio 72).

(vi) Letter, 1798, of Viscount Melville to the Earl of Mornington, with transcript; five letters, 1794-1804, of the Earl of Malmesbury to William Pitt and Lord Grenville; and one letter, 1805, of George Rose to Lord Grenville (folio 75);

(vii) Letter, 1808, of Viscount Melville to Lord Hawkesbury; letters of Lord Dartmouth, Earl Cornwallis, and Lord Amherst, 1793-1801, to John Dowdeswell; and various letters, including nineteen of Earl Spencer, 1795-1800, to Viscount Melville (folio 101).