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A group of 63 letters received by J. R. M. Butler after publication, many from friends of H. M. Butler and J. R. M. Butler as well as members of his extended family. Some of the letters include personal recollections of H. M. Butler. Correspondents include Frances Anne Conybeare, W. J. Conybeare, D. H. S. Cranage, J. A. Cruikshank, Randall Davidson, Albinia Donaldson, T. Field, Edward Graham, Alan Gray, Charles Haddock, John Charles Hill, Sir Arthur Hort, David Macdonald, H. H. Montgomery, G. C. Moore Smith, Edith Wendell Osborne, R. St. John Parry, Godfrey Phillips, Ernest M. Pollock (Lord Hanworth), John Ross, Ronnie Ross, A. E. Shipley, Henry Yates Thompson, George Trevelyan, and P. N. Waggett.

Family correspondents include Sir Cyril K. Butler, Diana Butler, Dorothy Butler, E. M. B. Butler, Sir Geoffrey Butler, George Grey Butler, John Butler, Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, Ralph L. G. Butler, Marie Gray, Antonia Greenwood, Hugh Howson, David Morley-Fletcher, A. Francis Norman-Butler, C. L. Ramsay, G. M. N. Ramsay, Susan E. Ramsay, and Audrey Tower.

On the spine is stamped: ‘ARETHUSA. FULL SCORE[.] GRAY.’

One letter from Alan Gray expressing his pleasure at being asked to sit for a portrait, and three letters from W. D. Monnington relating to the commission and the mount for the drawing.

Compositions for four voice parts: treble, alto, tenor, and bass for Alan Gray's "Justorum Animae" and "Sanctus", all written in the same manuscript hand and pasted on boards. With 2 smaller boards with "The Grace" on one side signed by Gerard F. Cobb, April 24, 1874, and on the verso the treble and bass parts for "Deo Gratias" by Byrd, with the addition on the treble's card "The memory of the righteous shall remain for evermore" by Walmisley, and on the bass's card the printed grace of Trinity College and Byrd's "Non Nobis Domine" from Novello's Parish Choir Book.

Menu for dinner signed by the Master H. M. Butler, T. P. Pemberton, H. F. Newall, H. F. Stewart, Charles Waldstein, Francis Jenkinson, Sedley Taylor, E. Seymer Thompson, F. C. Burkitt, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edward J. Dent, Alan Gray, Charles Wood, Karl Breul, R. D. Archer-Hind, Oscar Browning, [G. H. Orpen?], and J. E. Nixon.