There are four bound manuscripts. There are also handwritten and printed loose notes, pages and letters concerned with the preparation of the material.

A bound manuscript for the "Supplemental Glossary of Terms Used in the North Western Provinces". The volume starts with a preface entitled "Supplement to the Printed Glossary" before beginning the glossary. The manuscript has some annotations and corrections. The volume measures 33.5 cm x 21 cm with marbled cover and leather spine much of which has been lost.

Bound manuscript for the "Supplemental Glossary of Terms Used in the North Western Provinces". It commences with a description on the flyleaf of how the volume came into existence. There is a further description under the heading "Supplement to the Printed Glossary" initially dated 15 August 1843, crossed out and changed to 7 February 1844. The manuscript is then titled "Supplemental Glossary of Revenue & Agricultural Terms used in the North Western Provinces". The manuscript has many alterations and annotations. The volume measures 26.5 cm x 21 cm with marbled cover and leather spine entitled "M.S. of Supplemental Glossary".

Bound volume compiled by various officers containing glossaries of revenue terms for the Indian districts of:

• Agra
• Allahabad
• Azamgarh (Azimghur)
• Betul (Baitool)
• Bijnor
• Delhi (Dehlee)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Etawah
• Fatehpur (Futtehpore)
• Ghazipur (Ghazeepoor)
• Gorakhpur (Goruekpoor)
• Hoshangabad (Hoshungabad)
• Jabalpur (Jubulpoor)
• Jaunpur (Jownpoor)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Kumaon
• Mathura (Muttra)
• Meerut
• Mirzapur
• Moradabad (south)
• Narsinghpur (Nursingpoor)
• Pilibhit (Pilibhut)
• Saharanpur (Suharanpoor)
• Shahjahanpur (Shahjihanpore)

These show the local dialect words for the terms required by the administrators.

Extracts Relating to Survey and Settlement. The documents found within this volume are:

• Captain Waugh on combining Revenue and Trigonometrical Surveys, 29 January 1844.
• Lord Auckland on the present mode of Survey and Settlement, 1838.
• Captain S.A. Abbott on Hudbust and Khusreh Survey.
• On Excitement Occasioned by survey.
• General Principles of Settlement, particularly with reference to Geruckpoor.
• Board on leases in Kumaon, 1834-1836.
• Extract from Mr. H. MacKenzie's Minutes on Revenue Settlement of the 3rd of October 1837.
• Board's instructions respecting Delhi Settlements.
• Comparison between the Madras Ryotwarry System and the Revenue System in the NW by Mr Thomason.
• Comparison between the Madras Ryotwarry System and the Revenue System in the NW by Mr H.M. Eliot.
• Applications of Average Rates, 16 September 1836.
• On fixing the rent rates of Ryots.
• Mode of ascertaining rate where rents are taken in kind, dated 18 October 1839.
• Mode of preparing the population returns, 20 February 1840.
• Rent Rolls of Calpee, 28 April 1843.
• Different Coinage on which Juma of early Settlements recorded, 1810.
• On deduction from assets, 1811.
• Survey previous to Permanency, 1814.
• Government on Permanent Settlement, 1815.
• Board on revocation of Permanent Settlement, 1817
• Extract from Consultation No. 15, 2 January 1841, on Pergunnah Meerut.
• Government on the Settlement of Bundelcund, 1811.
• Board of Commissioners Report on Bundelcund, 1817.
• Government on the Settlement of Bundelcund, 1817.
• Collector's Report on the Settlement of Allygush, 1806.
• Board of Commissioners on the Settlement of Allygush, 1817.
• Board of Commissioners on the Settlement of Moradabad, 1815.
• Board of Commissioners on the Settlement of Moradabad, 1817.
• Abstract of the General Observations on the Memorandum of H. Mackenzie in Revenue Appendix.
• Printed Extract from a Memorandum of Mr H. Mackenzie, 1819-1820.
• Mr Thomason on Benares Survey, 28 February 1842.
• Survey operation especially in Benares, 27 April 1841.
• Board on the opposition to the Benares Survey.
• Mr F. Currie's view of Benares Settlement, 14 August 1838.
• Extract from the Resolution of Government of 11 April 1788.
• Extract from a letter from the Collector of Azingurh, 30 October 1835.
• A few remarks on Mr Jonathan Duncan's Settlement of the Benares Provinces by Mr. Morrison.
• Note by Mr Thomason on Mr Morrison's Remarks, 29 March 1842.
• On the Rajah's Family Domains, 21 January 1834.

Extracts relating to Maafee and Talookdaree Tenures - the documents within this volume are:

• Maafee Tenures in Bundelcund, 12 June 1835.
• Maafee Registration - series of correspondence, 1834-1835.
• Respecting necessity of producing Sunnuds - correspondence, 1836.
• Paper of Enquiries.
• Board's letter on the General Question, J.G. Deedes, 15 April 1836.
• Behar Petition, N.H. Macnagten, 29 August 1836.
• Board on the General question, J.G. Deedes, 29 April 1836.
• Respecting Settlement with and Pension to the Maafeedars, H.M Elliot, 16 June 1837, E. Thornton, September 1838, and Elliot, 1838.
• Lakhirajdar has no claim to Shamilat, 1 September 1845.
• Powers of Lord Lake and the Mahratta Amils, J. Muir, 6 July 1836.
• Relating to the Seal of Madhajee Scindia, H. Unwin, 6 April 1839.
• Prescriptive possession under Hookamee Grants, J. Thomason, 11 September 1837.
• Board's power to modify decision of Commissioner.
• Shah Alums Seals, 22 September 1837.
• Ba. Furzundan, H.J. Orson, 19 September 1837
  *. On Bijnore Resumptions, 15 December 1836.
• Despatch from the Honorable the Court of Directors of 21 April 1841.
• Private correspondence with H. Lushington, 1845-1846.
• List of reigns of former Kings.
• Mr Fortescue on Delhi Jageers, 4 December 1819.
• Circular Order of 28 August 1838.
• Subsettlements in Maafee Estates, 11 October 1845.
• A Maafee Sunud.
• Mr Thomason's orders respecting Talookas, 17 January 1844.
• Board on the General question of Talookdarees, 6 December 1842.
• On the Communities of Sheorajpoor, 26 December 1837.
• Correspondence respecting Munchunna and the General question of Talookdarees, 1841-1842.
• Talooka of Munchunna, 5 December 1805.
• Board on the Talooka of Etawa.
• The Court of Directors on Bombay Talookdars, 17 September 1841.
• On bringing and respecting rights in Talookas, 1845.

Handwritten definitions for Elliot's glossary, with terms translated from various local dialects into English. Handmade notebook without cover.

The majority of this correspondence are letters sent to Elliot to provide details for his Glossary, or other administrative purpose. They are in English, Urdu, Persian and Hindi. One letter is a list of the population figures for English counties according to the 1841 Census.

Three bound, handwritten volumes concerning the topography and statistics of the Dehli, Rohilcund, and Saugor and Nerbudda territories.

Bound, handwritten volume of the topography and statistics of the Saugor and Nerbudda territory (located in present-day Madhya Pradesh). Includes information on the various Pergunnahs (Parganas), or administrative units, within the region.