4 diaries and a number of essays/extracts from essays. The first diary is titled,"The Royal Mail Packet: Forth, 1841", and contains a list of the incoming and outgoing voyages of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, and a log for a number of the voyages taken. The second is titled "The Royal Mail Steam Packet: Tay, 1841", and contains a journal on the voyage between England and the West Indies kept by Edward Finn in 1844. The third is titled "The House of Assembly at New Providence in the Bahamas, 1842", and contains the minutes of the meetings of representatives and commitees relating to the laws of New Providence. The fourth is titled "The Log Book of the William Forster Schooner, 1841", and contains the same. Of the extracts there is one titled "Steam Men-of-War, 10 June 1831", another titled "H.M.(Steam) S "Meteor", From the Malta Gazette, March 3rd, 1830", and another titled "H.M. Dockyard, Deptford, 16 April 1831".