Semi-official letters nos 1-52 from F.H. Bugbird, Yokohama, to D.G.M. Bernard, Hong Kong, with enclosed letters and papers, including memoranda. There are also copies of semi-official correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Yokohama, and Jardine Matheson, Kobe, London and Shanghai, with covering letters from Jardine Matheson, Yokohama, to Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong.

There is an index at the beginning of the volume containing the following entries:

A: Alliance Assurance Co. Ltd; Annual Accounts; Accounts; Agent's House at Kobe.

B: A.S.A. Bishop; Durant, Bevan & Co.; Bunkering.

C: Mr Chicken; Commission; Consignments; Major Cassel; Cotton Cloth; A.E. Cooper; Coal Bunker.

D: W. & C. Dunlop.

E: Exchange; Ellerman's Bunkering Contract; Exports to France; Mr Evamy; Mr Elton; Earthquake Destroys.

F: Finance; Fire Insurance.

G: General Business; General Imports; General Position; Goods Sold & Delivered; General Conditions; Glen Line, Kobe.

H: Hempbraid, Kobe.

I: Insurance on Silk; Imports - Goods Sold But Not Delivered; Insurance Department; Import Department; Import Finance.

J: Japan's Financial Position; Japan Waste Silk.

K: Kobe - Reports of Sale; Kisachi Godown; W.L. Kerr.

L: Home Leave; J.P.P. Leite.

M: Matheson & Co.'s Commission on Strawbraid Shipments; Mercantile Bank of India; J. McCaig; Masuda Trading Co. Ltd.

N: Noto Railway Co.

O: Oura Property No. 5.

P: Property - Nagasaki; Perez Corporation & Co.

R: Report - Monthly Business.

S: Statements of Assets & Liabilities; Shipping Documents; J.P. Stevenson; Saghalin Timber Concession; Staff; Raw Silk; Waste Silk; Shimogo Coal Strike; Strawbraid Department, Yokohama; Strawbraid Department; Strawbraid - Kobe.

W: W.H.L. Warrener; Waste Silk Business; White, Tomkins & Courage.