A comprehensive calendar/finding aid listing the contents of State Papers 42/2, covering administrative and official correspondence between the Home Office (Secretary of State for the Northern District) and Isle of Man's Lieutenant Governor and Governor (1777–1783). Documents cover governance, defence, revenue, manorial records, constitutional disputes with the Duke of Atholl, fencibles enlistment, currency, civil officer appointments, and the status of the Island post-Revestment. Essential primary source guide for the immediate aftermath of the 1765 purchase.