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The title cited is from the title-page. The volume is labelled on the spine ‘St. Simon | Nouvelle Encyclopédie | MSS.‘, and on the front ‘L.D.L.S.’ The written leaves are numbered in the bottom right-hand corner from ‘d.73’ to ‘d.224’.

Correspondents include Ramanujan himself, J E Littlewood, G N Watson, G H Hardy, A S Ramalingam, F Dewsbury, J J Hensman, S Lakshmi Narasimhan, K Ramunni Menon, K Ananda Rao, P V Seshu Ayyar and H Heilbronn.

Also includes minutes of the congratulatory meeting held in honour of Ramanujan and K Ananda Rao.

Kirkaldy. Apologises for the letter sent the previous day

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.

Normandy Farm. Surplus of cabbages, wants to sell them in Guilford, requires epsom salts

Stafford House. Appreciates NWS's ability to impart information, worried about the health of his brother. [incomplete]

Includes papers on highly composite numbers, singular moduli, Rogers-Ramanujan identities, Mersenne numbers etc

Includes: Correspondence with Anne Nill (Mrs. Voynich's companion) with an account of her death.
Correspondence with Winifred Gaye, 1961-69 (`who thought not legally adopted by me has always been considered by me as a daughter' according to Mrs. Voynich's Will).
Correspondence re Mrs. Voynich's estate and portrait.

146 letters, most of them replies to invitations to dinner, with a few concerning arrangements to stay in rooms in College for the night, sent to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, or specifically to Henry Montagu Butler, John Walton Capstick, Hugh McLeod Innes, or William Aldis Wright. An original letter of invitation may be found as part of item 65.

Thirteen of the letters concern other matters related to Trinity College business, as described below.
Items 9-11: Blomfield, Sir Arthur William. Asks to use the College Hall for lunch for the Royal Academy Club annual excursion, June 1899
Item 19: Dalzell, Robert Harris Carnwath, 11th Earl of Carnwath. 7 Jan. 1899. Remittance for fees, deducting a fine incurred by his son which should be paid for by the culprit
Item 40: Devonshire, Duke of. Undated. Contribution to the Trinity College, Cambridge Mission Appeal.
Items 61-62: Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse. 1896, 1898. Encloses payment for his subscription to the Trinity College Mission and the Cambridge House
Item 84: Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings, 1st Baronet. 1898. Encloses payment for dues
Items 100-101: Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred. 25 Mar. and 1 May 1899, encloses lists of students and other women from Newnham who would like to attend the Rayleigh lecture
Item 108: Stanton, Vincent Henry. 3 Sept. n.y. Concerning the opening times of the Trinity College Library
Item 123: Webster, Richard Everard, 1st Viscount Alverstone. 19 July 1897. Encloses cheque for subscription.
Item 126: Whitehead, Alfred North. 21 Oct. n.y. To Capstick, asks for questions for the General Question paper

One letter appears to be personal, not Trinity College business: item 90, sent to John William Capstick by Georg Hermann Quincke 15 July 1896, who writes about electric currents, citing articles, and describing his overcrowded laboratory (in German).

Kensington. Will call on him the following day.

Extracted from Sraffa 2542-3

Extracted from Sraffa 2542-3

Has kept journals overlong, passed them on to Cavour, Thiers and Guizo, Italy will be able to hold her own against France in three years

The numbered papers are a.96-7, a.35-40, a.62-95 (with a blank unnumbered leaf between a.64 and a.65), a.31-2, a.41-51 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.14, a.109-14, a.98-108, d.3-8, a.131-2 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), d.9-69 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), a.115-16, a.126-7, a.119-22, a.117-18, a.124 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.130, a.128-9, a.123 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.212-25, a.233-45 (a.235 appears to have been missed out by mistake), d.70 (a printed leaf, joined to three unnumbered printed leaves), a.2-7, a.9-12, a.8, a.13 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), and a.15.

The headings which occur among these papers include the following:

‘Lettre. | Aux Dames’ (a.96)

‘Lettre aux Dames’ (a.35)

‘Lettres des | Deux Philantropes’ (a.62)

‘Aux Savants | Sur la Perfectibilite de LEsprit humain’ (a.41)

‘Chapitre second | sur la perfectibilité indefinie’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘dixieme époque | des progrès futurs de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘aux Savans | Sur la perfectibilité de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘Sur la philosophie’ (a.109)

‘Mon opinion | ou | Esquisse | d'un rapport sur l'affaire générale’ (a.98)

‘Introduction | aux | Travaux Scientifiques | du | Dix-neuvieme Siécle’ (d.3)

‘Observations générales | sur la 1re classe | des travaux Scientifiques du 18e Siécle’ (a.131)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques du | 19eme Siecle’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques | du 19eme Siecle’ (d.9)

‘Premiere Partie | Livre premier | de l'univers’ (a.115)

‘Chapitre second | Considerations metaphysiques’ (a.128)

‘Chapitre troisieme | des taches du soleil’ (a.125)

‘Prospectus | d'un nouveau cours d'études Normales’ (a.212)

‘Physiques des Corps organisés | introduction’ (a.213)

‘Lettres | de | C.-H. Saint-Simon’ (printed) (d.70)