This series contains correspondence with private individuals, solicitors, record repositories, local authorities and societies regarding documents associated with manors, and includes registers of correspondence for 1930-1952. It also includes minutes of meetings of the Manorial Documents Committee.
In later years the files include requests for information regarding the whereabouts of manorial documents mainly from genealogists and local historians.
A selective subject index of the manorial correspondence up to 1951 is included in HMC 5/9