Box contains: a folder containing letters to Messrs Sandbach from Demerara agent circa 1810-1840; a folder containing legal documents relating to ships circa 1830-1890; a volume titled "Pilotage Provisional Orders" belonging to Norman Hill circa 1890; and a file of correspondence of Upper Mersey Navigation Commission dating from between 1933 and 1936.

Administrative / biographical background
The collection relates generally to merchant shipping in and around Liverpool.