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Originally housed in portfolio bearing date '1842'. Also includes several verses and translations by Thomas Babington Macaulay. With newspaper cutting: 'Macaulay: thirty years in letters: a gift to Trinity College', from The Times, 24 Jan 1928.

No 26: letter, 14 Mar. 1839, from Thomas Babington Macaulay to Thomas Flower Ellis has been divided; the remainder is at 258.

Note that the numbering of the letters continues from O.15.12A(i), with the first letter in this volume being No. 107.

Note that the numbering of the letters continues from O.15.12B(i), with the first letter in this volume being No. 48.

Originally housed within two envelopes, one labelled in what may be the hand of Margaret Holland, née Trevelyan, Lady Knutsford, the other by George Macaulay Trevelyan, and a folded sheet of card noting that the letters were 'used freely in G. O. T[revelyan]'s Life of Macaulay'.

The copies appear to be in the same hand throughout.

'TBM's article on William Pitt corrected for the press' written on first page proper, probably in the hand of George Macaulay Trevelyan.

Printed extract from Encyclopædia Britannica follows [8th edition, Vol. 18], pp 727-744, with several MS annotations and corrections.

'Macaulay - Original Letters' on spine.

Note by Margaret Holland (Macaulay's niece) on the inside front cover: 'These Ballads were picked up at different times by Lord Macaulay and pasted by him into this book'. An almost identical note by her is on the inside back cover.

1 sheet from G. O. Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (pp 105-106), concerning Macaulay's liking for and collection of ballads, pasted to recto of flyleaf.

Some dates and other annotations added to ballads by Macaulay.

Fair copies, not in date order.

Bound in cream. '19' written on front and '15. H[annah?] Macaulay. Feb[ruar]y' on what is now the back.
Table of contents on inside front cover:

1. Preface to the 14th no. [of the] Christian Observer
2. Pedro the cruel to King Edward III
3. The State of Hungary to Maria Theresa
4. Letter on Dancing
5. Latin exercise
6. Essay on Patriotism
7. Address to the allied Sovereigns
8. 1st Canto of Olaus, or Mona conquered - Oct. 1808
9. Conquest of Ireland Book I - April 1814
10. D[itto] Book II
11. Hymn
12. Letter to an Aunt

A note by Margaret Holland below records that these are all copies of early works of Lord Macaulay. The transcriber (probably, by the hand, Lady Knutsford's mother Hannah Trevelyan) has added explicatory notes below some of the works. Two poems are dated in what may be George Macaulay Trevelyan's hand.

Envelope labelled 'T. B. M.'s signature pasted to front free endpaper, containing slip of card with Macaulay's autograph. Book contains notes by Macaulay on historical sources such as manuscripts from the Harleian Library, presumably consulted during research for his History of England...

Note by George Macaulay Trevelyan on back flyleaf: 'The other end of this volume is the Commonplace Book of Charles James Fox. This end I have used for letters from (and to) Thomas Babington Macaulay. G. M. Trevelyan, Dec. 1928'. Most of the letters are labelled in Trevelyan's hand, adding details such as publication in George Otto Trevelyan's Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. There are also a few letters from and to G. O. Trevelyan.

These papers were found divided into two groups, O.18.6/1-18 largely consisting of deeds and other documents, and O.18.6/19-69 of correspondence; this division has been preserved. The final two items were found elsewhere among Macaulay's papers and moved here.

London; sent to 'Mrs Babington', Rothley Temple. - Thanks her for the note and cheese, which are 'both excellent [in] their way. The cheese is the best [that] I ever ate'. Sends love to his uncle and cousins; is 'extremely obliged' to his uncle for his letters, though thinks 'he is a little mistaken as to Brougham's having suffered in character by his promotion. In influence and power he has certainly suffered'.