These papers include letters (1797-1851), letterbooks (1811-1844), registers (1807-1815), and miscellaneous manuscripts.

The material in this collection is primarily the receipts for books, clothes, passages, a rhinoceros, etc., while he was in Calcutta. There is also a small volume (approximately 50 pages), a duplicate receipt book which he kept as the Consul for the U.S. in Vera Cruz, Mexico.