The documents include memoranda, accounts and statements regarding costs, contracts, purchases, settlements and exports of tea; a memorandum of customs returns of tea shipped from Kiukiang, September 1864; memoranda of advances; an estimate of the crop of green teas for the season 1866-1867; opium sales accounts; a memorandum of imports suitable for the Kiukiang market, 1866; statements of and quotations for imports; tea market reports; registers of sales of piece goods and opium; stock lists of goods and statements of unsold stock; a quarterly list of stores required for the Kiukiang agency, April 1868; memoranda of assets and liabilities; a memorandum of opium shipments from Hankow, August 1866; a comparative statement of receipts from the black tea districts near Kiukiang for the seasons 1866-1870; and tables showing cargo carried by individual companies from Kiukiang for May 1885 and May 1886. The documents include reference to Robert Anderson; Ateong; J.T.M. Ewen; G.H. Styan; and the Koenigsberg Commercial Association.