The volume contains pamphlets, notices, and correspondence connected with the Humber Foreshores:

1. Prohibitory Notice regarding removal of shingle at Spurn Point (1 August 1868), signed T. H. Farrer, Secretary to the Board of Trade

2. Letter from C. Cecil Trevor, Board of Trade (dated 8 June 1868) to Edward Shimells Wilson, Hull Trinity House, granting permission for the crew of the life boat to remove shingle from a portion of Spurn Point

3. Prohibitory Notice regarding removal of shingle at Spurn Point (6 September 1869), signed G. Shaw Lefevre, Secretary to the Board of Trade

4. Speech of Mr Serjeant Merewether 'Upon the claim of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to the Sea Shore, and the soil and bed of tidal harbours and navigable rivers; the nature and extent of the claim and its effect upon such property' delivered in the Court of Chancery on 8 December 1849. Published by Henry Butterworth, 7 Fleet Street, London (1850)

5. 'The Outfall of the River Humber' by William Shelford, M. Inst. CE, published by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street and Charing Cross (1869)

6. 'Beverley and Barnston Drainage: Reports of the Commissioners and of Mr John Wolfe Barry' (1879). Published by Goddard and Son, Printers, Hull

7. 'Report of Mr John Wolfe Barry and Mr Joseph Fox Sharp to the Commissioners of the Beverley and Barmston Drainage and the Corporation of the Town of Kingston upon Hull' (1881). Published Hull: M. Harland and Son, Steam Printers, Manor-Street

8. 'Public Rights in Navigable Rivers' by P. Edward Dove of Lincoln's Inn (1887). Published by Horse Cox of 10 Wellington Street

9. 'Beard's Contour System of Groynes'. Published by London: Printed at the Bedford Press, 20 and 21 Bedfordbury W. C. (1901)

10. 'Notes on the Growth of Spurn' by Arthur Ernest Butterfield (1904)

11. White Paper 'Erosion on the Holderness Coast of Yorkshire' by Ernest Romney Matthews (1905)

12. 'On Some Tidal and Engineering Features of the Humber: A lecture delivered before the members of the Hull Literary and Philosophical Society, 2 December 1884, by A. C. Hurtzig

13. The London Gazette (14 March 1905)

14. Typescript extract from deed poll of 11 October 1858 regarding land revenues of the Crown regarding manors of Barton Barrow and Gouxhill (1905)

15. Letter from Hessle Urban District Council to Humber Conservancy Commissioners (dated 7 January 1905) regarding the Hessle Urban District Council Bill and boundary for the high water mark of the River Humber

16. Notice from the Board of Trade regarding unloading stone from vessels upon the foreshore below high water mark or throwing ballast etc. into navigable channels, signed C. Cecil Trevor, Assistant Secretary