The papers of Manuel Eyre comprise correspondence, accounts, invoices, bank checks, bills, and receipts. Some of the correspondence predates the organization of the mercantile firm of Eyre & Massey, and documents Eyre's business affairs when he was just twenty years old. The bulk of the records include shipping papers, ship's articles, accounts, manifests and bills of lading, and letters from corresponding merchants, mostly from Troup & Brown at Port au Prince. Other merchants include: Peter Dorey and John Van Cleve (Cap Francois), Tucker & Butler (Nassau), Runekel, Ruys & Co. (Amsterdam), and John Jones (Charleston). There is also a group of items relating to Eyre's property in Burlington, N.J., including printed broadsides for the sale of a house.