"This research paper has been transcribed from a letter box, dated March 1811 held in the Library of Chatham Dockyard Historical Society. The book is made from 224 pages of off-write, double-foolscap size paper, some sections watermarked with a wire grid and G Pike, and some with a seated Britannia figure. There is no inscription to indicate the author or originating office in the Dockyard."--p. 1.