Copies of correspondence and other papers enclosed originally with semi-official letters from Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, to Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong, of January 1919-January 1921. The documents are arranged into sections corresponding to the semi-official letter with which they were sent, and each section is preceded by a list of contents. The principal part of the enclosures is comprised of semi-official correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, and the agents and representatives of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd in ports in China and elsewhere, as well as with Matheson & Co. Ltd, London. The remaining enclosures include correspondence of Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, with other correspondents; other semi-official correspondence, some of it enclosed with semi-official letters to Shanghai, including correspondence between Jardine Matheson, Chungking and Hankow, and from S.F. Mayers, British & Chinese Corporation, Peking, to G. Jamieson, British & Chinese Corporation Ltd, London; additional letters; memoranda; monthly agency business reports; and inward and outward telegrams.

The correspondents in the semi-official correspondence with Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, are G.S. Aveyard, C. Barraclough, J.W. Bateman, B.D.F. Beith, John Bell-Irving, D.G.M. Bernard, G.H. Bowker, F.H. Bugbird, C. Chicken, W.S. Dupree, W. Ford, W. Galloway, F.W. Gotch, H.S. Hills, P.S. Jameson, John Johnstone, Henry Keswick, W.H.T. King, William Laidlaw, David Landale, H.H. Lennox, D.R. Mackenzie, James McGuffog, D. Duncan Main, J.F. Owen, E.C. Peters, G. Purton, E.U. Reid, A.R. Riddle, Andrew Ross, C.H. Ross, W.W.G. Ross, A. Brooke Smith, A.E. Smith, J.C. Taylor, C.B. Tweedy and C.B. Wortley.