File consists of a private diary with entries dated 10 October 1896 - 27 May 1898.

File consists of a diary with entries dated 28 May 1898 - 22 October 1899.

File includes a draft of the US counter case entitled "Seventh Article of the Treaty of Arbitration"; and notes on the Pacific Ocean and Behring Sea notes on the general objects of trade.

File includes 2 tables of fur sale prices for Hudson's Bay; 6 letters (including correspondence between the marine ministry and fisheries and C. H. Tupper); an extract from "The Seal-Island of Alaska" by Henry W. Eliott (1881); the report "Ordinance for the Protection of the Buffalo" (1877); the document "Short Skeleton of Reply to 'Property' Claim" by George Mercer Dawson (1892); and a chief contentions report of the U.S. Case entitled "Respecting the Seal and Seal Life".

File includes notes on the fishing and sealing industries, in addition to notes on investigations into fishing and sealing in the Behring Sea.

File includes licenses to British sailing vessels engaged in fur-seal fishing as well as 25 letters, including correspondence with C. H. Tupper.

File includes various official documents and reports related to seal fishing or created in relation to a mission to Washington regarding framing of sealing regulations in the Behring Sea, including: certified copy of the confidential report of a Committee of the Hon. Privy Council, on the Behring Sea and fur-seal fisheries, 1893 (26 pages); Reports on the Arbitrations and regulations of the fur seal fishery, by C. H. Tupper; Notice relating to Permits and Passes on fur-seal fishery; Confidential Report of the "British Agent to the Russian Seal Islands under the provisional agreement entered between her Majesty's government and that of Russia for the protection of Seal fisheries," Dr. Dawson, 1893 (108 pages with appendices).

File includes Behring Sea confidential reports: Professor D'Arcy Thompson to the Marquess of Salisbury, March 1897 (39 pages); G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton to the Marquess of Salisbury, 1897 (57 pages); Marquess of Salisbury to Sir Johnson Pauncefote, 1897 (3 pages); and notes on Prof. Jordan's preliminary report.

File contains letters and notes on the Alaska Boundary, including the following: a copy of the report "Alaska Boundary Question"; "notes on cavernous report"; letter from D. H. Dall; letters from Capt. William Moore; and draft memoranda.

File contains copies of the Yukon River report; report on The Alaska Boundary Question by W.H. Hall (1888); notes; and letters including correspondence with D. R. Cameron, E. Deville, and W. H. Dall.