Material relating to the loss of the TENASSERIM in December 1865, and subsequent legal action pursued by Howson, late Captain of the lost vessel, from an envelope annotated "For Jack"; Howson's Masters Certificate, 18 July 1866, with hard case; Handwritten extract from The Graphic, 23 January 1875, "The Fire on board the WINDSOR CASTLE"; a handmade magazine "Currie Powder" by Jef Skigs, CONWAY CASTLE packet 13 June 1878, presented to Howson by Skigs; Certificate appointing Howson a Commander in the Royal Naval Reserve, 23 December 1889; Letter to Howson from the Registrar General of the General Register and Record Office of Shipping and Seamen, 1 January 1890, commissioning him as Honorary Commander in the RNR; Letter from Donald Currie & Co, managers of the Union-Castle Mail Steamship Company, to Howson, thanking him for services rendered with the fitting out of Transports and embarkation of troops in the Thames for South Africa, 26 September 1900, from an envelope also containing letters dated 1902 regarding the Order of the Companion of the Bath; extract from The Liverpool Journal of Commerce, 5 July 1902, regarding Howson and four other executive staff of the merchant marine making the Coronation Honours List; Letter to Howson from the Assistant Secretary of the Marine Department, 30 May 1904, admitting him as a Companion of the Order of Bath; Grant of the Order of Bath, June 1904; obituary of Captain Howson from South Africa magazine, 12 January 1907 (photocopied extract).

Administrative / biographical background
Marine Superintendent to the Union Castle Line.