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Papers re stocks and shares, mainly share certificates and certificates of dividends paid on shares but including draft deeds and abstracts of title relating to property in the funds of the United States Government, 1819-39; annual reports of the National Bank of India, 1866, 1894-5; a monthly report of disbursements and receipts of the Kalie Minggir estate owned by the Indo Java Rubber Planting and Trading Co. Ltd, June 1909; detailed lists of securities held by Edward Crawford Lloyd Fitzwilliams, 1925-7, 1932-3, and a copy of the annual report of the Metropolitan Railway Co., 1928.

Correspondence, including letters from Gerard Hall Lloyd Fitzwilliams from Vienna, 1920, and from the Sudan and other parts of Africa, 1925-9; a letter from Duncan Campbell Lloyd Fitzwilliams from Fiji, 1923, and letters from Charles Collinsplatt Lloyd Fitzwilliams from the Agricultural School, Potchefstroom, South Africa and New Cilgwyn, Lusaka, Zambia, 1925-7.

Correspondence including letters relating to the death of Francis Crompton Lloyd Fitzwilliams who died in a boating accident in Barbados, 1898, and over 200 letters from Edward Crawford Lloyd Fitzwilliams to his wife Maud and to his parents whilst serving in South Africa during the Boer War, 1899-1901 [cf. Pg 1].

Letter Books of Edward Hall containing copies of letters mainly to his uncle Charles Hall and to his brother, also called Charles Hall, both of Kingston, Jamaica, relating mostly to the former's children in London and to business matters, but including also references to Wilberforce, 1783 (C 2, f. 5); 'my friend' Mr Fox, 1784-5 (C 2, ff. 8, 17), Pitt and his administration, 1784-5 (C 2, ff. 11, 16-17), the King's illness ('the public are kept much in the dark about everything'), 1788-9 (C 2, ff. 27, 29), and to a debate on the slave trade, 1792 (C 3, f. 4).

Letters chiefly to or from members of the Hall family and mainly dated between 1775 and 1803 including a letter from Charles Hall, Jamaica, to his nephew Edward Hall, 1778 (C1/2) [cf. C 2/1-2]; three letters from Charles Hall on board the Friendship and at Cork to his brother Edward Hall, 1781 (C 1/4-6); a letter from Sir George Charles Braithwaite, bart, to Admiral Richard Braithwaite, 1783 (C 1/7); a letter from Fairlie Christie, Fairfield, Jamaica, 1785, to Edward Hall and including a reference to the Westminster election [of Charles James Fox] of 1784 (C 1/8); letters from George Hargreaves, Rakefoot, Rossendale, Lancashire, to his cousin Edward Hall, 1793-59 relating mainly to the will of the Rev. Thomas Hargreaves of Brentford, Middlesex, and seeking recipient's assistance to prevent a bill passing through the House of Commons which would allow a new road to be cut through his tentures and woollen works (C 1/12-23, 25), and including two plans of the same (C 1/17, 23); a letter from William Henry Hall, Kingston, Jamaica, to his mother Elizabeth Hall, 1801 (C 1/28), and two letters from Henry Bradley on board the Ajax at Alexandria, 1801, and at anchor on the Downs, 1802, to Benjamin Edward Hall relating to the death of recipient's brother Charles Hall at Alexandria (C 1/29-30).

Miscellaneous personal papers including naval commissions of Charles Logie, 1770, 1801 (Px 1/1, 7); his admission to the burg of Aberdeen, 1779 (Px 1/2), and his appointment as Consul General in all the Dominions of the Emperor of Morocco, 1802 (Px 1/9); naval commissions of Thomas Lloyd of Cilgwyn, 1778-82 (Px 1/3-5); appointment of Richard Braithwaite as Admiral of the White, 1801 (Px 1/8), and appointment of William Henry Anderson Moreshead as Rear-Admiral, 1862 (Px 1/12).

Papers relating to the medical career of Duncan Campbell Lloyd Fitzwilliams comprising a copy letter from his father Charles Home Lloyd Fitzwilliams seeking permission for his son to act as a surgeon in the Royal Army Medical Corps [in South Africa] together with a list of honours obtained by him at Edinburgh University, 1900 (Pk 1/1-2); a formal address by the inhabitants of Newcastle Emlyn, co. Carm., on his safe return from the Boer War, 1903 (Pk 1/3); application for the post of casualty officer in Great Ormond Street Hospital together with testimonials, 1905 (Pk 1/4); offprint of an article by him entitled 'Function and Form with Reference to the Hand and Foot in Man and Apes' from Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ser. 7, Vol. XX, Aug. 1907 (Pk 1/5), and typescript diary 1915-16, relating to his service with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Rumania and including also an account of his visit to Austria (Pk 1/6).

Papers relating to the naval career of Francis Crompton Lloyd Fitzwilliams comprising certificates on passing various naval examinations and of good conduct, 1892-6 (Pj 1/1-27); papers granting his effects to his father, 1898 (Pj 1/28-9), and draft of inscription on his tomb, c. 1898 (Pj 1/30) [For his death in a boating accident in Barbados see C28].

Diaries of Gerard Lloyd Hall Fitzwilliams, Frcs, MDCh.B describing his experiences as a medical student in Edinburgh, 1902-4 (Ph 2/1-3), and as a doctor there, 1906-7 (Ph 2/4-5), and in Hong Kong, 1906-15 (Ph 2/5-14), and his experiences in Singapore, Penang, Calcutta, Hong Kong, China and the United States, 1905 (Ph 2/4); France, 1916 (Ph 2/15), Rumania, 1917 (Ph 2/17), Russia, 1917-18 (Ph 2/17-18), Austria, 1918-19 (Ph 2/18-19), Russia, 1921 (Ph 2/21-2), Germany, 1922 (Ph 2/23), Japan, United States, Belgium, France and Austria, 1924 (Ph 2/25), Africa, 1925-7, 1930-2 (Ph 2/26-31), together with his account of the progress of the Second World War, 1939-45 (Ph 2/39-43).

Papers relating to the naval career of Richard Braithwaite Lloyd Fitzwilliams comprising certificates from the school ship HMS Conway, 1891 (Pi 1/1-4); indenture of apprenticeship as a seaman with Thompson Anderson & Co., Liverpool, 1891 (Pi 1/5); commissions and certificates of good conduct and discharge, mainly with the Royal Indian Marine, 1894-1901 (Pi 1/6-26); temporary discharge from the same on account of suffering from hepatitis, 1902 (Pi 1/27), and account of his estate after his death, 1902 (Pi 1/28).

Papers relating to the medical career of Gerard Hall Lloyd Fitzwilliams including Zoology lecture notes taken at Edinburgh University, 1899 (Ph 1/2-7); testimonials, 1906 (Ph 1/8); examination papers, 1907 (Ph 1/9); a copy of his MD thesis on German Measles, 1907 (Ph 1/12); appointment as temporary Captain in The Royal Army Medical Corps, 1918 (Pg 2/15), and certificate of election as an honorary associate of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 1920 (Ph 1/16).

Lectures, letters to the press, etc., including rough notes for a lecture with a lantern slide on Mesopotamia, 1919 (Pg 7/3-4); a lengthy letter from C. D. Mackellas on the history of Albania and Montenegro, 1911-14, 1919 (Pg 7/9); statement of ECLF's war service, 1919 (Pg 7/10); letters to the press on the proposed disbandment of the Welsh Guards, on Essad Pasha who was assassinated in Paris and on the White Army in Russia, 1919-20 (Pg 7/18-20); a chart showing the war service of members of the Fitzwilliams family, 1920 (Pg 7/22), and a lecture on the history of freemasonry, 1934 (Pg 7/38).

Papers relating to his career from 1902 until the outbreak of World War I, when he was in Hong Kong, including a tracing of a plan of Matshead Army Camp, Kowloon, 1901 (Pg 2/1), letter relating to his election as Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 1902 (Pg 2/3); printed copies of lectures given at the United Service Institution of Hong Kong on coast fortresses, the use of torpedoes, military telephones and the treatment of the wounded in naval actions, 1902-5 (Pg 2/4-8); examination papers and lecture notes relating to courses held by the Sanitary Institute in London and Hong Kong, 1903-06 (Pg 2/9-21), together with certificate of passing examination as a meat inspector, 1906 (Pg 2/22); remarks by the Goc on field operations held on 26 Jan. 1904 (Pg 2/23); report by Edward Crawford Lloyd Fitzwilliams on the Japanese Army after having been on leave to Japan, 1904 (Pg 2/25); a booklet by Eclf, entitled Attempts to reach Port Arthur, 1905, together with MS draft and galley proof of the same, 1905 (Pg 2/25-7); papers relating to a military training exercise held in Ireland, 1906 (Pg 2/31-6); list of officers of the Welsh Divisional Transport and Supply Column Army Service Corps, 1910 (Pg 2/44), and a file of reports and related papers concerning a meat packing station in Chicago where he had been sent to superintend the package of a large consignment of beef on behalf of the War Office, 1911 (Pg 2/48) [cf. his letters from Chicago in C 29].