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A collection of some of the printed material and letters received by Whewell between 1819 to 1833, of which the materials relating to the Cambridge elections of 1829 and 1830 form a part.

Bound volume of extracts of William Whewell's letters to his family and perhaps his own diaries, dating from 1812-1839 with the bulk of the material dated 1812-1821. The extracts, which form a narrative of Whewell's activities for this period, are written in an unidentified hand and quote letters to his father John Whewell, aunt Alice Lyon, and sisters Elizabeth, Martha, and Ann Whewell. These extracts are continued by short summaries of Whewell's activities in the years from 1821 to 1839, possibly drawn from diaries, but not identified as such. Accompanied by a poem signed W. W., written on his engagement to Cordelia Marshall.

Most of the letters listed here are Ellis's own and date from the 1840s and 1850s. Many were written to his friend William Walton, also a graduate of Trinity, who later became a Fellow of Trinity Hall. There are several letters to William Whewell, Ellis's sister Everina, his father Francis, and others, with a handful of notes to unidentified persons at the end of the sequence. The fifteen or so incoming letters cover a range of subjects and include Augustus De Morgan on the four-colour problem and other mathematical puzzles, Isaac Pitman on phonetics, and James Spedding on the writings of Francis Bacon. About twenty items consist of mathematical problems, verse translations and other writings by Ellis, including an essay on Bacon which obtained the second Hooper Declamation Prize at Trinity in 1839. There are also several family letters of the 1830s, one received by Ellis' great-uncle Henry in 1800, and letters written after Ellis's death concerning his correspondence and a memoir.