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ff. 1-5: [General introduction to the works]
ff: 6-7: 'Capitoli generali da osservarsi per l'esecuzione dei lavori stradali'
ff. 8-11r: Account of costs of the work [broken down further, ff. 15-38]
ff. 11v-14: 'Metodo di costruzione'
ff. 15-38: 'Stato circostanziato dei prezzi' [detailed statement of costs]

Dated 'Torino li 27 Gennajo 1822' at end of work.
List of employees of the civil engineering corps of ports and roads in the Kingdom of Sardinia pasted to f. 39r.

This extract covers ff. 1-165 of the printed text in the first published edition of 1834. Extensive alterations and annotations.

Containing MS copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to his career in the Royal Navy.

25 The Cedars, Putney. - Seeks Milnes' influence with Earl Russell in obtaining Vice-Consulate of Benghazi; Admiral Smyth and Mr Gregory are also exerting themselves on his behalf; present need is urgent.

To Whewell? Encloses an extract from his son's journal concerning a flood tide in Venice, the entry dated 6 Oct. 1841.

Letter to William Henry Smyth dated 16 Feb. 1834 asks for barometrical observations on behalf of Professor [Miller?] of Cambridge, is looking for the mean height of the barometer in different latitudes; Mr and Mrs Airy have fever and [Adam] Sedgwick has dislocated his arm; is building lecture rooms with a ventilator which would enable Mrs Smyth and her friends to listen to lectures. This letter accompanied by two notes in an unidentified hand.
A letter to R. C. Trench is dated 2 Mar. 1852 and asks questions arising upon reading his Study of Words.
There are two letters to William Hodge Mill, dated 1842 and 1844. In the earlier letter he asks Mill to serve as examiner for the Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship, and asks his opinion of the effect of the Corn law on the value of tithe rent charges. The later letter sends a passage he has read in the Life of Hegel which he thinks will amuse him.
The letter to Benjamin Webb is dated 18 Dec. 1857 and refers to Webb's offer of a collection of MSS related to William Hodge Mill, and states that the seniority has approved the sum of £50 for the MSS.
The letter to Lady Lubbock is dated 8 Mar. 1864 and accepts an invitation to visit High Elms; is expecting a visit from Amelia and Maria Herschel with their brother Willie.
Accompanied by a modern transcript of a letter from Whewell to B. H. Smart dated 8 May 1969 [1849?] thanking him for a copy of his Manual of Logic.

Presentation letter, thanks him for his kindness in Cambridge. 'I wish I had that Library of yours about a mile under my Lee.'

With a note at bottom by William Aldis Wright.

St. James's Place - JWL forwarded WW's 'excellent report' to Capt. Smyth [William H. Smyth]. Could WW find out whether the Syndics of the university press would publish a short work on the determination of the orbit of a comet ['On the Determination of the Distance of a Comet from the Earth, and the Elements of its Orbit', 1832]. WW has no doubt seen 'a little mistake in the expression for the time in the parabola in your dynamics' ['An Introduction to Dynamics Containing the Laws of Motion and the First Three Sections of the Principia', 1832].