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The group consists, for the most part, of papers, [c. 1750’s]-1771, connected with the general routine military administration but also includes some papers, 1756, relating to Clive’s own active service. Being few in number however, they provide only a fragmentary record of his military role with little for the early years of his service and his first governorship (1758-1760), but slightly more for his second administration (1765-1767). A few papers, dated 1764 and 1771, refer to events that occurred when Clive was not in India but are, nonetheless, pertinent to his service there.

Original grant of the jagir together with deeds and correspondence, 1758-1767, relating to its subsequent administration.

Letter books and bundles of loose letters containing official and some private correspondence mainly from, but also, to Clive, relating to his life in India and England, 1752-1759,1765-1774. For the most part there is no clear division between either the public and private or the Indian and European aspects of the correspondence. Owing to the predominance of the public correspondence, it is Clive's service in the East India Company and, in the wider context, the history of British rule in India, rather than his domestic and private concerns, that provide the main subject matter. The group also contains indexes and registers of corespondence, and letters written in Persian, 1752-1773, almost all addressed to Clive, relating mainly to military and financial affairs in India and to relationship with and between native Indian rulers.

Accounts of Clive's personal and official finances both in India and England, buy mainly in the former. The distinction, however, is not always clear since both his foreign and domestic transactions and the different types of accounts are sometimes represented separately and sometimes intermixed. The group comprises : journals of India accounts, 1757-1759, journals of general accounts: England and India, 1763-1774, journals of ‘Lord Clive’s Concerns in Bengal’, 1765-1766, contemporary copy journals of India accounts, 1757-1758, draft journals of general accounts England and India, 1764, 1769-1774, ledgers of diamond accounts, 1755-1757, ledgers of India accounts, 1757-1759, ledgers of general accounts England and India, 1763-1774, ledgers of Lord Clive’s Concerns in Bengal, 1765-1766, contemporary copy ledgers of India accounts, 1757-1758, account books of India accounts, 1759-1760, cash books of general accounts England, 1763-1764, cash books of Lord Clive’s Concerns in Bengal, 1765-1766, miscellaneous cash account books, 1756-1763, bills books; 1756-1758, and bundles of accounts, 1752-1758.

Rentals, 1771-1778, and surveys of estates in and near the borough of Okehampton, Devon, which Clive purchased from Thomas Pitt, M.P. for the borough, and from John Hippisley Coxe following his final return from India in 1767. The surveys are of pre-1767 date and relate to the period of Pitt’s ownership of the estate. The rentals, beginning in 1771, extend to 1778, those that post-date Clive’s death (1774) reflecting the work of Clive’s trustees.

Records, 1766-1768, relating to the stewardship of the estates in general, but with particular reference to the estates in England and Ireland, comprising stewards’ journals, 1766-1768, and stewards’ ledgers, 1766-1768.

Financial and administrative records, 1767-1772, relating to Clive's estates in Monmouthshire which he purchased from Lord Windsor and others in the late 1760s and sold to the Duke of Beaufort in 1772, comprising rentals, 1768-1770; particulars, 1767, 1770-1771; draft surveys and valuations, [c. 1770], field books, [c. 1770], rough buildings and repairs accounts; [c. 1770], and papers relating to purchase, sale and estate appointments, 1767-1772.

Papers relating top the Walcot estate.

Papers, 1762, relating to Clive’s purchase of Leigh Hall estate, Shropshire, from a Mr Livesey in 1762, papers, 1761-1763, relating to the purchase and sale of the Montford estate on the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, 1761, and the Oakly Park estate near Ludlow, Shropshire, from Lord Powis in June 1771, together with appointments of estate officials.

Contemporary transcripts, 1763-1764, of Clive's private letters, 1756-1760, and transcripts and duplicate transcripts of his official letter books, 1758-1760, entitled 'Country Correspondence to be kept by the Governor'.

Contemporary copies of official company records comprising charters, [c. 1753]-[c. 1758], treatises, farmans, agreements, [c. 1757]-[post 1765, Sept.], and account books, 1752-1772.

Papers, 1727-1729, 1757-[c. 1763], of Company servants who served before and during Clive’s time in India comprising the journals of Henry Harnett, 1727-1729, ledgers of Henry Harnett, 1727, voyage journals of Henry Doidge and others, 1757-1759, and papers of William Dobbins, [c. 1760]-[c. 1763].

Stated accounts, 1771-1774, and rebuilding accounts, 1772-1780, of the Claremont estate, near Esher, Surrey, which Clive purchased from the Duchess of Newcastle in June 1769.

Official papers which, although not extensive, reflect Clive’s involvement in the civil administration of Bengal. They include papers relating to revenue collection, population statistics, currency reform and trade. They derive, for the most part, from Clive’s two periods as governor of Bengal, 1758-1760 and 1765-1767, but relate almost exclusively to the latter.

Records of the Calcutta council and its committees, 1757-1768, and of the mayor' s court (one of its courts of justice), [c. 1765]-1766, dating from Clive' s first and second periods as governor of Bengal (1758-1760 and 1765-1767) although his first term is only very sparsely represented. The papers for 1768 refer to matters that occupied Clive before he resigned office in 1767.