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Inventories of household goods, 1760, [c. 1770], and a catalogue of books at Clive's town house in Berkeley Square, 1765.

Papers relating to the Bengal expedition, 1756, and to the siege of Madurah, 1764.

Letters, 1767-1773, written by Clive from England and France mainly to India. The subject matter ranges from East India Company affairs and Clive's continuing interests in Bengal to events in England.

Official notice, 30 June 1766, relating to the establishment of a gold currency in Bengal together with a note, [c. 1764], from Mr. Holt, East India House, to[Henry] Strachey relating to ‘Claims on the Nabob for Restitution on account of Salt’ and a draft proposal, [c. 1766] concerning the prohibition of ‘dastaks’ (free passes for the Company’s trade) to junior servants.

Indexes and lists of Clive's letter books and loose correspondence deriving from his second governorship of Bengal

Alphabetical index to the consultations for 1766, the consultations themselves not being present. In addition to references to individual persons and places, there are entries headed inter alia company servants, Europe ships, fortifications and repair, hospital, import warehouse keeper, military, paymasters, president, rents and revenues, salt farms, surgeons, treasury and zamindar (collector of revenue).

A volume of household and other memoranda relating to Clive’s tour of France which he undertook between January and September 1768. It includes lists of the baggage, plate and books that were taken, the names of family members and servants who accompanied him and details of the tour itself (names and dates of places visited with distances given in ‘posts’ and miles).

An account book giving details of payments made in 1771 with regard to the use of house at Bath (presumably Lord Chatham's former house in the Circus at Bath of which Clive had bought the lease), the furniture at Oakly Park, servants' wages and journeys to Bath, Walcot and Bristol.

Account books (receipts and expenditure), 1760-1764, containing original and duplicate versions of Clive's account with Henry Clive, relating to household, personal and family expenses and social engagements such as attendance at balls, concerts and plays, and visits to various coffee houses, race meetings and the pump room at Bath.

An account book, 1760-1761, of payments totalling over £900 made to George Smith Bradshaw for furnishing Clive's houses (not identified) but probably his town houses, including that in Berkley Square. The accounts, in the form of an inventory, record the furnishings and fittings room by room and are receipted for £800 by G. S. Bradshaw on 8th Aug. 1761. The work and costs involved are described in a separate ‘Jobbing Account’ (pp. 11-14).

A field book [c. 1770], containing references to lands in the lordships of Usk and Trelleck. It gives the reference number, name, location and acreage of the property and the name of the holder of the tenure.

Letters of both a public and private nature (but mainly the former) sent by Clive at Calcutta to Europe during his second overnorship of Bengal. In the main the letters contain references to the East India Company's affairs in India and at home with regard to its revenues, the grant to the Company of the Diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, the trade in salt, betel nut and tobacco, Clive's civil and military reforms and his settlement with Shuja-ud-daula, the Nawab of Oudh. Clive also gives his frank views on the Company directorship (p. 40), individual directors e.g. Laurence Sulivan in whose defeat at the election of directors in 1765 he could not 'but rejoice exceedingly' (p. 16). and of Mr[william] Sumner, a member of his Select Committee in Calcutta as his proposed successor in Bengal (pp. 6-8). Other matters discussed include Clive's financial and domestic affairs including passing references to the refitting of the house at Berkeley Square and repairs to Walcot.

Estimate of monthly receipts and disbursements, Jan. –July 1775, mainly interest payments and annuities.

Lists of existing and proposed military establishments for 1763 and [c. 1765].

A manuscript copy, [c. 1765], of the charter of 8 Jan. 1753 (26 George 11) establishing courts of justice in the East Indies concluding with (pp 75-80) a special reference to the Calcutta court in the form of a ‘Table to the Charter so far as Relates to the Mayors Court’.

Lists of Company servants and European civilians in Bengal in 1766.

Duplicates, 1763, of the transcripts of sections 1-6 in CC2.

A series of duplicate rentals, 1772-1776, which, to a greater or lesser degree, are duplicates of those in ED1.

A draft survey and a valuation of the Usk/Trelleck estate, [c. 1770].

Draft/incomplete versions, 1764, of entries in CF2/2 and CF8/2, and drafts, 1769-1774, of entries recorded in the journals CF2/10-14.