The collection spans Henry Miers Elliot's career working for the Indian Civil Service from 1827 to 1853, and includes:

• Manuscripts mainly concerned with administration. These are in English and local Indian languages.
• Correspondence to Henry Miers Elliot
• Printed Material
• Visual Material, including copper-plate rubbings, agricultural drawings and a map of Baiswara.

Some of the material had previously been identified by Professor Simon Digby, Honorary Librarian to the Royal Asiatic Society (1970-1984). The information provided by him has been kept with the Henry Miers Elliot Papers.

There are four bound manuscripts. There are also handwritten and printed loose notes, pages and letters concerned with the preparation of the material.

Bound volume compiled by various officers containing glossaries of revenue terms for the Indian districts of:

• Agra
• Allahabad
• Azamgarh (Azimghur)
• Betul (Baitool)
• Bijnor
• Delhi (Dehlee)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Etawah
• Fatehpur (Futtehpore)
• Ghazipur (Ghazeepoor)
• Gorakhpur (Goruekpoor)
• Hoshangabad (Hoshungabad)
• Jabalpur (Jubulpoor)
• Jaunpur (Jownpoor)
• Kanpur (Cawnpore)
• Kumaon
• Mathura (Muttra)
• Meerut
• Mirzapur
• Moradabad (south)
• Narsinghpur (Nursingpoor)
• Pilibhit (Pilibhut)
• Saharanpur (Suharanpoor)
• Shahjahanpur (Shahjihanpore)

These show the local dialect words for the terms required by the administrators.

Various notes, plans and rough glossaries for Elliot's 'A History of India', originally to be named 'A Complete History of Muhammadan India'. Attached at the end are English letters and newspaper clippings, as well as one sheet of notes in Devanagari script. Handwritten bound volume in English and local Indian dialects.

Handwritten definitions for Elliot's glossary, with terms translated from various local dialects into English. Handmade notebook without cover.

"Abstract statement showing the amount percentage on land cultivated for each species of crop". Handwritten table of the percentage of various crops cultivated on land in the districts of:

• Aligarh (Allyghur)
• Azamgarh (Azimghur)
• Bareilly (Barelly)
• Bulandshahr (Boolundshuhur)
• Gorakhpur (Goruakpoor)
• Meerut
• Saharanpur (Suharunpoor)

Four unbound manuscript pages for Elliot's 'A History of India', printed by the Oriental Lithographic Press, Calcutta:

• Appendices III A and III B: Diagrams depicting unknown, labelled items, probably hill towns, surrounded by notes in Arabic and one other, as yet undeciphered, script
  *. Item labelled 'No.VIII', probably an appendix: Diagrammatic map depicting a town and its buildings, numbered and labelled in Arabic.
• Item labelled 'No.XV - Number 1': Printed table and map for the 'Village of Mouza Sooltanpoor, Purgunuh of Noh Jheel, Zilla Muttra', labelled in English. The table shows a brief, surveyed description of the area, which includes the number of houses and wells, amount of land covered by buildings, the cost of various items, the general caste of inhabitants, and the depth of water

Loose printed pages, including:

• pp.109-110, and two duplicate copies, of the Supplemental Glossary for the North West Provinces (N.W.P), describing the various strands of the Bunjara community.
• pp.231-232 of the Supplemental Glossary for the North West Provinces, with glossary definitions in various dialects and their translations and descriptions in English. Begins 'Dhooh'/'Dhuh' and ends 'Dhora'.

Various unbound notes and letters, including:

• Translations to English of words from Indic languages for Elliot's Glossary.
• One page of rough Devanagari script.
• Four pages with notes on the population and revenue of areas in India.
• Letter from B.N.C Hamilton providing information on castes and villages.

Bound manuscript for the "Supplemental Glossary of Terms Used in the North Western Provinces". It commences with a description on the flyleaf of how the volume came into existence. There is a further description under the heading "Supplement to the Printed Glossary" initially dated 15 August 1843, crossed out and changed to 7 February 1844. The manuscript is then titled "Supplemental Glossary of Revenue & Agricultural Terms used in the North Western Provinces". The manuscript has many alterations and annotations. The volume measures 26.5 cm x 21 cm with marbled cover and leather spine entitled "M.S. of Supplemental Glossary".