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Copy dated 1856 on cover, but drawn up 22 Aug. 1853, by J. [?] F. Delmar, 7 Lincoln's Inn Fields. Indenture between John Broadhurst and Thomas Ambrose Shaw. Pencil annotations to heading alters it to 'Abstract of title of Lord Macaulay's Executors to Holly Lodge..'

Title written on inside front cover. Copies of letters dated 15 and 27 Jun. 1834.

List of books - accounts, exit and redit books etc - with Wren Library reference numbers assigned to each. MS pencil note at top, '(Most) 1932 now in Muniment Room (behind Clock)'. Pencil annotations state which books remain in the Library, with the initials 'AH' [Arthur Halcrow?]. MS pencil note at bottom: 'Most of these volumes are stored in the Tower muniment room (behind clock). Nov. 1932 C.B.H. [Cecil Baldwin Hurry]'.

3 Storey's Way, Cambridge. - Thanks Rouse Ball for sending him the Cayley MSS, which he is very glad to have. Was at school with Cayley's son Henry; remembers doing Latin prose with him, and the 'various mathematical adventures' they had together; regrets not hearing of his later life.

Labelled 'Rt. Honble Thos B. Macaulay'; calculations on inside covers and first and last pages.

Translation into Ancient Greek of Tennyson's Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur, lines 133-146. Labelled on the back of the sheet '''16' [in pencil]. 'Gk Verse Comp. Benson | (Fellowship Examination Oct. 1852)'. Annotated [by Francis Martin?] in another ink '1852 | The actual Exercise sent up purloined (!) by Fra. Martin one of the Examiners'.

'No. 29. Quiver with Arrows from Otaheite. Gift of Capt[ai]n Jam[e]s Cooke 1775'

With the addresses of Messrs Gibson and Strathern, W[riters to the] S[igne]t; Messrs Lindsay Mackay & Howe and Messrs Tods Murray and Jamieson.

In Isaac Todhunter's hand, listing letters dated 1831-1864.

Written out in FitzGerald's hand: 'Mr Froude's Receipt of Carlyle's Papers [crossed through] Letters which are to be delivered to W. Aldis Wright for Trinity College Library and if thought worthy my own Book of Extracts for W. A. W.'s own Library'.

19 Birchin Lane, London, E. C. - Everyone was pleased to see him when he came home 'which made it a little better coming back'; has just written to his sister sending the £1 so now everything is settled. The pictures of the 'Scandal' [FitzGerald and Joseph 'Posh' Fletcher's schooner] and FitzGerald's house 'have been very much admired'. Mr Wylie though he was looking much better. Thinks it would 'please Uncle Edward [Byles Cowell]' to hear how he has spent his holiday; will write and tell him.

Notes on German vocabulary in Edward FitzGerald's hand on the outside pages of the letter.

Published as Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review.

1 sheet (with two following) is headed 'List of MSS missing in May 1838. Copied from the brief in the case of Trin. Coll. v. Brit. Mus. [1845-1847]'

Signed by the President, Remsen B. Ogilby. Sent on the occasion of Trinity, Hartford's, first centenary (the college was founded in 1823, and moved to its first campus in 1824). With thanks for the kindness shown by Trinity, Cambridge, to the new college.

A journal recording his work as Master of Trinity College, with notes on letters sent and received and in addition, drafts of 74 letters, listed separately according to the page number of the journal on which each letter begins. An index in the hand of Janet Douglas is tipped in at front.

Records the purchase of 4 and a half yards and a quarter from Obadiah Wickes and Daniel Radford at 'the 3 Nunns & Hare in Cheapside' for 1 pound 17 shillings.