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A notebook covering the first months of Clive's second governorship of Bengal containing abstracts of letters/communications sent by him, mainly to army officers and staff of the East India Company, relating mainly to routine affairs such as visits, escorting dignitaries, etc. The volume is endorsed: 'Note Book Commencing 13th May 1765'.

Account books, 1759-1760, containing details of Clive's finances during, and immediately subsequent to, his second period of residence in India.

An account book, 1774-1786, with Messrs. Gosling, Clive and Gosling, bankers, relating to the payment of legacies, annuities, etc.

Papers acquired by Robert Clive, 1739-1772, some deliberately, others it seems by accident.

Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies and artificers etc. relating to the various companies making up the East India Company’s army for the years [c. 1750s], 1760 and 1764-1767 with the notable exception of one return [c. 1757] relating to French army casualties. The companies’ returns include a roll, [c. 1750s], of the detachment of the Company’s troops victualled by Ensign Davies at Trivady [presumably during the war in the Carnatic known also as Dupleix’s war, 1749-1754], a return, 1760, of troops, etc., at Rajmahal under the command of Major John Caillaud (1724-1812), [presumably during the defence of Patna, 1759-1761], and returns, 1765-1767, of the three brigades established by Clive’s reforms of the military under the commands of Sir Robert Barker, General Carnac and Colonel Richard Smith and stationed at Patna and Allahabad. There are also returns, 1764 and [1765?], of the Company’s troops on board the Prince of Wales (at the Cape of Good Hope) and the Speke. The returns are mostly statistical but sometimes give the names of the troops and even their country of origin. The casualty return relates to the numbers of French killed and wounded at Chandernagore, [post 1757, March 23].

Weekly, monthly and general returns of troops, ordnance, ammunition sepoys, lascars, coolies and artificers etc., of the garrison at Fort William, Calcutta (including its detachments to Patna and at Allahabad), and of the troops in general on the Bengal establishment during Clive’s second governorship, 1765-1767.

A volume, 1756-1758, of ‘Bills Payable’ and ‘Bills Receivable’ deriving from Clive's second period in India. The details, in tabular form, include the names of those by whom the bills were drawn, to whom they were payable, their date, time span, when they became due and the sum involved.

A bundle of Clive’s personal and official accounts during his stays in India between 1752 and 1758.

Cash books, 1763-1764, covering the years immediately prior to Clive's last voyage to India containing personal, household and estate accounts.

A cash book, 1765-1766, of monthly receipts and expenditure from Clive's second period as governor of Bengal which corresponds to the relevant journals and ledgers in CF3 and CF9.

A cash ledger containing accounts relating inter alia to funeral charges, servants’ mourning, wages and allowances (names and positions given), tradesmen’s bills (names and trades given), expenses of executing Clive’s will, household insurance and taxes in London.

Catalogues of Clive’s libraries at Walcot and Berkeley Square, 1774, with loose papers, 1775-1776.

A cellar book containing weekly accounts of the different types and amounts of wines and spirits consumed and remaining in stock between Nov. 1773 and May 1775. Although various rooms are mentioned the house itself is not identified but the volume probably relates to Clive's Berkeley Square residence, since it contains references to a Mrs. Ashley who was a member of staff there at the time. The book commences virtually a year before, and finishes almost six months after, Clive’s death.

Copies, [c 1753]-[c 1758] of charters granted to the Company between 1753 and 1758 and of official correspondence relating to charters dating from 1727.

An account book, 1760-1761, containing details of payments made to Thomas. Harris [tailor] for making clothes (materials specified) for Clive himself, for members of his family and for members of his household.

Copies and abstracts of accounts and financial estimates, etc., compiled from the Company’s official books by officers in London between Jan. 1767 and Nov. 1770. The actual accounts together with projections, however, date from 1752 to 1772. They include accounts of the duties paid on East India goods, the value of exports, the expenses connected with the Company’s settlements, its sundry expenses incurred on account of the wars in the East Indies from 1754 to 1766, its use and victualling of royal forces, the sums granted to it by Parliament, the state of its debts and credits, and an estimate of cargoes and details of its revenues from Bengal and other districts.

An account book, 1762-1763, of Thomas Kilvert [house steward] at Condover Hall (an Elizabethan mansion and the seat of the Owen family five miles south of Shrewsbury) which Clive rented in 1761. It includes payments in respect of tradesmen’s bills, servants' wages and window tax for the hall and the house in Shrewsbury. Includes a loose letter, 30 May 1763, from Clive concerning the engagement of a ‘famous Cook’ and a man who understands fireworks to celebrate Plassey Day (23 June 1757).

Extracts from the consultations (i.e. the minutes, resolutions and correspondence) of the council from May -Sept. 1765. They relate to the appointment of field officers, the acceptance by councillors of presents from Indian princes contrary to Company regulations, a dispute concerning the powers of the select committee, and the grant of the Diwani (i.e. the right to collect the revenue) of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa to the Company, 12 Aug. 1765.

A contemporary copy, 1757-1758, of India accounts in CF1.