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An index, 1765-1767, to the different series of Clive's letter books incuding letter books which are no longer extant. This volume then provides the essential index to both the surviving and the missing letter books.

Original, contemporary copy and duplicate current accounts, invoices and receipts, 1752-1758, relating to Clive’s transactions with fellow Company servants and other associates in India. Included are accounts with Robert Orme [Clive’s partner in trade and later official historian to the East India Company], the surgeon Tyso Saul Hancock, Thomas Amphlett, George Clive [Clive’s cousin], George Pigot Governor of Madras], Henry Vansittart [later to succeed Clive as governor of Bengal], Richard Bourchier [Governor of Bombay], and Captain Samuel Hough [with Clive at the surrender of the pirate stronghold of Gheria, 1756]. The accounts give details of Clive’s personal and official finances (payments to his barber, washer man and tailor, his Company allowances and salary, etc.) and his mercantile and business interests (investments in diamonds and ships, etc.). The period represented by the accounts includes Clive’s stay at Madras, his appointment as captain and his governorship of Fort St. David.

Letters to India from Clive mainly at Berkeley Square,London, similar to those in CR6/1 but including two letters of advice to Warren Hastings following his appointment as governor of Bengal.

Letters to India from Clive at Walcot, Bath and Berkeley Square, and from Paris and Montpellier (during his tour of Europe) mainly to Henry Verelst (Clive's successor as governor of Bengal)and other East India Company officers containing Clive's opinions on civil and military matters in Bengal; his recommendations to appointments in the Company's service; Clive's unfavourable opinion of the directors; and discussing the salt trade and his jagir. ). The last letter addressed to Claud Russell (p. 62) is continued in CR6/2 .For a nineteenth century transcript see NLW, Sir John Malcolm Papers M4/1.

Intelligence, communications, and memoranda, etc., on a variety of matters, largely undated, but deriving from the military situation prevailing in the late 1750s and in 1765-1766 during Clive’s second and third tours of duty in India. It includes the declaration, [c. 1756x1757], of Francis Sykes [at the time assistant to William Watts, chief of the factory at Cossimbazar] pertaining to Kissendas/Krishna Das [an Indian trader whose protection by the English following his embezzlement of the revenues of Siraj-ud-daula, the Nawab of Bengal, contributed to the war between the latter and the East India Company] taking up residence in Calcutta, intelligence relating to the strength of Chandernagore [presumably before its capture in March 1757], Clive’s statement on the undesirability of carrying arms beyond Bengal [presumably a reference to the policy of his second and last governorship commencing in 1765] and a memorandum relating to an officer’s resignation during the Batta mutiny, 1766.

Inventories, 1769-1781, of livestock, household furniture and personal belongings of Clive drawn up by or for his executors.

Inventory [c. 1770] of household furniture, etc. at Berkeley Square, Bath and Walcot. Only the contents of Walcot are valued.

Inventory and valuation [c. 1770] of household goods at Condover and Berkeley Square.

Copy of T7/6 for Lady Clive but without the memorandum.

Inventory of the household goods, furniture, china and linen, etc. of the late Lord Clive.. The inventory concludes with a memorandum, 31 March 1775, declaring that the goods had been delivered over to Lady Clive by Clive's executors in pursuance of his will (p. 54).

Inventory of livestock and farming implements at Claremont, together with inventories of effects in the stables, saddle room, granary, kitchen garden, gardens and pleasure grounds at the same, and of foreign animals and birds, including a zebra, and an African bull and seven goats described as very troublesome

Draft or rough copy of T7/2.

Duplicate of T6/1 but including notes about what is to be done with the livestock and some of the farming implements, Mr. Probert's plan and recommendations for the estate, and a rental of the Claremont estate for Lady Day 1775 together with attendant outgoings and notes about what is to be done with parts of the estate and the staff.

Inventory of Indian curiosities that Clive had acquired.

Inventory of missing household furniture at Berkeley Square. Most of the missing items seem to have been taken by Lady Clive’s servants probably on her orders, or ‘worn out’ but one item was and ‘stolen in 1779 by a man from the upholsterer not taken’ (f. 2r).

Inventory of some of Clive’s personal effects including a watch, gold buckles and a complete dress of the Knight of the Bath that he had worn.