Semi-official letters nos 121-221 from W.S. Dupree, Hankow, to G.S. Aveyard, J.J. Paterson and (mainly) A. Brooke Smith, Shanghai, 5 January-31 December 1921, and unnumbered semi-official letters from Jardine Matheson, Shanghai, to W.S. Dupree, Hankow, 8 January-29 December 1921, with enclosed letters and papers. There are also property letters nos P.1-19, P.21 and P.22 from Hankow to Shanghai, 19 May-30 November 1921, and P.1-18 from Shanghai to Hankow, 25 May-20 December 1921. The letters from Shanghai are unsigned.

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

A: Accounts; Arnhold Bros; Agreement; Agreement with Wang Yuin-Sung; Abstract Log of Voyage; Accidents; Anchorages; Assistants; Agencies; Agency & Departmental Commissions; Annual Report; Accounts Receivable; H.A. Allan.

B: J. Barr; Berthing Sites; 'B' Bungalow; Beans; Ian Beith; D.G.M. Bernard; Bank Balance; British Municipal Council; A.H. & T.A. Barnes; C.W.M. Birch; Balfour, Guthrie & Co.; Book Offices.

C: Mr Corke; B.M. Carion; Chengtu & Chungking Compradores; Chengtu Goatskins; Canton-Hankow Railway; Changsha Furniture; Changsha Engineering; Changsha; Changsha Club; Chungking Winter Bungalow; Claims; Credit; Chungking & Chengtu Consignment Stocks; Chen Nai Chung; Chartered Lighters; Coal; Departmental Commissions; Chinese Occupation in British Concession; Chao Chioh Toh; Commercial; Cotton Mill; Crown Leases; Charge; Chungking Property; Chungking; Chungking (Little River Site & Godowns); Chungking Compradore Yen; Chungking Compradore Liu; Chungking Trade Report; China Produce Exchange Position; China Produce Department; Chungking Profit & Loss Account; Chungking Special Finance; Compradore's Deposits; Compradore's Agreement; Cotton; Chabrières, Morel et Cie; Chungking Underwriting Account; Chengtu Overdraft with Shanghai; Chengtu; Chengtu Compradore's Letter; Copper; Copper Contract Claims; Chungking Shipments; Chungking Wharf Syndicate Godown; Chengtu Furniture; Chengtu Monthly Trade Report; Chungking & Chengtu Mints; Chungking Berthing Sites.

D: Dowler, Forbes & Co.; Davidson's Chengtu Furniture; R.H. Davidson's Stores; R.H. Davidson; W.S. Dupree; Dealer's Consignment; G.F. Duddridge.

E: Exchange; Engineering Department; Estimated Position of Produce Department; Estimated Financial Position; Estimate of Probable Result of Year's Working; Exchange Losses on Taken Over Stocks; Export Accounts; Export Compradore's Agreement; Engineering Letters; Engineering; Engineering Returns; Export Limits; Export Produce; Ewo Yu; Explosives; Export Department.

F: Financial Statement; Financial Position; Finance.

G: Godown Rents; Goatskins; Major John Gregg; General; Gallnuts; China Grass; Glidden Co. of Cleveland.

H: Hankow Land Investment Co.; Hankow Agency; Hankow Lots 7 & 8; Hukuang Railways; Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corporation; Him Shan's Property; Hankow-Canton Railway; Hunan; H. Hobden; Hides; G. Hall; Hospital Expenses.

I: Ichang; Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.; Ichang Property; Ichang Residential House Scheme; Insurance; Import Piece Goods; Imports Department.

J: Junk Traffic; P.V. Jackson.

K: L.G. Murray Kidd; Kou Tien Pa; Kiating; Ki Tze Pa; Korster Co.

L: Lot 8; Lot 19; Lot 7; General Liu Hsiang; Land Near Race Course; Letters Nos 42, 398, no. 14; Losses; W. Laidlaw; Looting of Ichang; Leave; L.N. Leefe; Mrs L.N. Leefe; Little River & 3 Mile Sites; Lin Chi San Tan; Loan Account; W.H. Leslie.

M: Monthly Financial Statement; Monthly Report; J. McCaig; A.E. Mackay; Mr Macintyre; Maurice Marshall; A.L. Minjoot; Measurements; Market.

N: Claims for Losses by and Taxation of Native Agents; New York; New York Goatskins; New York Stocks; R.M. Nash; New York Invoices; New York Accounts; Navigation; New York Produce Department; Nisshin Kisen Kaisha.

O: Official Letter to Chungking; J.F. Owen; R. O'Brien; Office Accommodation.

P: H.K. Peters; Produce Speculative Stocks Held Locally; Produce Department; Produce Shipments; Produce Business; Political; Property; Return Passages to Employees Granted Home Leave; Piece Goods; Pilots.

R: C. Ribeiro; E.F. Ratti; Railway Siding; Mrs C.H. Ross; C.H. Ross; Andrew Ross; Raw Cotton; Russian Council; J.M.V. Ribeiro; Rent Allowance; Reimbursement; Rickshaw Strike.

S: Suifu; Siao Mi Tan; Shih Niu Tan; Steam Navigation; Steamers; Statement of Goods; Sugar Sub-agencies; Sino-British or Sino-Jardine Corporation; Staff; Stocks of Barrels, Gunnies, etc.; Stocks; Sesamum Seed; A. Stewart; A.E. Shepherd; Szechuan; F.F. Singer; Steel Bars; Stores Incidental to Produce Business; S.S. 'Shunun'; Shipping Report; Statement of Shipments; S/O Letters; Steps from River to River Bank.

T: C.T. Tod; Travelling Expenses of Staff While on Firm's Business; J.C. Taylor; Trade Report; 3 Miles Site; Tze Liu Ching Railway.

U: Up-river Agencies Profit & Loss Account.

W: Wood Oil; Wahnsien; J.H. Williams; Wagon Contract; Wuchang; Wa Ya Tan; Wong; H. Whitworth Ltd.

Y: Yangtsze Pool.