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The series comprises a ledger, 1766-1768, corresponding to the journal EG1/1. Presumably this also represents the only surviving volume of a series of similar ledgers.

A survey of the estate when it was in the ownership of Thomas Pitt [pre 1767]. The details given include the names of the tenants, the tenements they hold and by whom occupied and rented, the lives in being, their ages, improved yearly rent, heriots, referred yearly rents, years purchase and computed value of Mr. Pitt’s interest.

A fair copy journal, 1757-1759, containing a daily account of a passage by sea and land from Bengal to England undertaken by Henry Doidge, Edward Ives [ secretary and naval surgeon respectively to Admiral Watson], and John Pye [presumably Captain Pye who, with the others, accompanied Clive on the expedition to Bengal, 1756-1757]. It also records the various legs or stages of the journey e.g. ‘Between Bengal and Bombay’, ‘In the Gulph of Persia’, ‘Sailing up the River Euphrates’, and ‘Between Venice and England’ and the ‘Money laid out’ during the passage.

Papers concerning purchases and sales of the Walcot estate, 1763-1766, which Clive purchased from the Walcot family in 1763, together with papers relating to joinery work and renovations on the estate in Shropshire and Radnorshire, 1763.

An account book giving details of the first half year’s payments for 1769 in respect of the household at Westcomb, a villa near Blackheath, London, belonging to the Duke of Bolton, which Lady Clive had rented when Clive was serving his last period in India, 1765-1767. It is arranged into separate sections for housekeeping, servants, contingent expenses, children’s expenses, travelling expenses, stable expenses, pocket expenses, liquors, wearing apparel, farming and gardening, and taxes at Westcomb and in London. There are enclosures, 1767-1769, containing details of servants' pay and board wages, liveries to servants and lists of servants.