This collection consists of the correspondence and business records of Arthur Moore (1666?-1730) and his immediate family in England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

The collection includes correspondence, copies of Parliamentary documents, and records related to stock in and the management of the Royal Fisheries Company, a British joint venture stock company of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, primarily concerned with fishing rights off the coasts of Scotland, Ireland, Greenland, and Newfoundland.