File consists of 9 handwritten manuscript memoranda, one including a note, relating to sale of the Montreal Gazette newspaper, including information relating to advertising, copyright, and the newspaper industry more generally.

File consists of a manuscript document concerning sale of the Montreal Gazette newspaper, including calculations and financial modelling.

File consists of an autograph letter addressed to Messrs Armour & Ramsay, Montreal, concerning sale of the Montreal Gazette newspaper and associated finances.

File consists of handwritten manuscript document summarizing research undertaken in relation to sale and purchase of the Montreal Gazette newspaper, including details on meetings with various professionals associated with the newspaper industry, including a journalist for the New York Morning Herald and owner of the New York Albion (John S. Bartlett).

File consists of a manuscript booklet containing carbon copy transcriptions of letters written by John Abraham, requesting payment from Montreal Gazette subscribers and advertisers in England.

File consists of an autograph letter from Abraham to his father, Thomas Abraham, containing a transcript of a 64-line poem titled 'Verses occasioned by the Scenery by the River Emont’, as well as news on the scarcity of silver, the movements of soldiers, and the present public mood.

File consists of an autograph letter from Abraham to his brother, John Abraham of Liverpool, including a discussion of sherry and rice pudding, and describing his 'precarious' situation.

File consists of an autograph letter from Abraham to 'Henderson', describing an 8-day journey across the northern United States and Canada, made in order to undertake research into purchasing of the Montreal Gazette newspaper.

File consists of an autograph letter from Abraham to a John Gibson of Whitehaven.

File consists of an itemised manuscript bill from Thomas Carrick, Chemist & Druggist, Irish Gate, Carlisle, on Carrick's letterhead and a manuscript statement of account for the period between September 1831 and June 1832.