Arrangement
The collection is divided into the following series:
- Series 1. Ship's logbooks and accounts
- Series 2. Seamen's journals and correspondence
- Series 3. Accounts of merchants and owners
- Series 4. Reports and legal documents
- Series 5. Literary works
- Series 6. Photographs and engravings
- Series 7. Ephemera, newspaper clippings, research notes and other printed matter