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Many of the letters discuss political affairs. Rev. Edward Coleridge was a master at Eton College, Windsor, England.

The 1829 diary covers the Broughton family's voyage to Australia on the convict ship 'John', and the 1834 diary covers Broughton's voyage to England via Brazil.

In 1846 George James Armytage stated that he saw Rev. J. Duffus drinking and smoking in the tap room of a public bar. Broughton appointed a commission to investigate whether the charges made were legitimate and worth further investigation. After hearing from numerous witnesses who testified to Rev. Duffus' good character, the commission concluded that there was insufficient evidence to carry the investigation any further. In 1847 charges relating to Duffus' moral character were brought against him by the church wardens as a result of documents they had received from Mrs. Forbes and her daughter Mrs. C.A. Bull. Broughton again appointed a commission to investigate the validity of the charges.
The commission concluded that the charges were legitimate and should be investigated further. Broughton therefore held an ecclesiastical court hearing in which he heard the witnesses, and passed sentence

Register of clergy, churches, visitations, glebes, burial grounds and school houses in the Archdeaconry of NSW in the Diocese of Calcutta

Letters to his wife Sarah, William Coleridge, and Joshua Watson of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel

Letters from his father-in-law Rev. John Francis, Rector of St Mildred's Canterbury, relating to religious matters, and from Charles Perry, Bishop of Melbourne.

Contains miscellaneous letters written to members of the Broughton family on personal and family matters. Due to the small number of the letters and the nature of their content they have been grouped together.