The papers consist of Hulbert's correspondence with the Navy Pay Office, Navy Prize Office, Treasury, Greenwich Hospital, Doctors' Commons and naval officers, between 1803 and 1823. There are also accounts and lists of prizes, including some printed papers, 1793 to 1798. The collection provides detailed information on the procedure followed in the collection and distribution of prize money.

Administrative / biographical background
Hulbert acted as an admiral's secretary and a naval prize agent early in the nineteenth century. He was born at Rochester in 1774, and apprenticed to Thomas Wood, vintner of London, in 1788. He served as secretary to Vice-Admiral Sir John B. Warren, commander-in-chief of the North America station, in 1804; and between 1808 and 1809 he exchanged with the secretary of Vice-Admiral Batholomew S. Rowley on the Jamaica station. He served again with Warren at Halifax, Nova Scotia, between 1810 and 1814, when a large number of prizes were taken. Hulbert later purchased Aston Lodge at Aston-on-Trent, but he was living at Southampton when he died in 1825.