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London - recovered from illness, "spoliation" bill, looks forward to Wellington bringing in a bill to abolish the Church of England, affairs of Lord Ailesbury and Lord Bruce, Kenny in love with Augusta Ponsonby, Porlett Thompson flirting with Lady Tankerville, British Association meeting at Cambridge, Cambridge debauchery

Madeira - Spring-Rice remarkably well, Funchal, Brookfield misses his daily work, Trench's "little book", amazement at a thirty year old woman who has never read a word of Shakespeare, is being very idle but doing much riding and playing a little billiards, reading Maurice's Kingdom of Christ

[Mount Trenchard] - Blakesley's choice of residence should depend on the suitability of the climate for the health of his wife and children, thanks him for the photograph of Phil, sudden death of Thackeray, Spring-Rice weak, his father will not take his advice, worried about the money market, stout support of the Act of 1844

Spezia - has been idle. admiration of Blakesley for going to Africa for the sake of his health, Spezia a national port and arsenal, increase in his admiration of the Italian nation, more mischief done in the world by folly than by wickedness, is staying with the "Fratelli Lenzi"

48 letters to W. H. Thompson dated 1831-1866, and 1 letter addressed to [John] Allen dated 24 Aug. 1840. Names mentioned in the accompanying calendar of the letters include Henry Alford; John Allen; Robert Leslie Ellis; Edward FitzGerald; Arthur Hallam; Walter Savage Landor; Samuel Laurence; Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton; Stephen Spring Rice; Sir Henry Taylor; Robert John Tennant; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Charles Tennyson [later Turner]; and William Wordsworth. Spedding also refers to his work on Francis Bacon.
With a further 35 letters to William Aldis Wright and William George Clark, dated 1862-1881. Letters to William George Clark date from 1862 to 1864 and relate to collations of Shakespeare's plays. Letters from 1881 to William Aldis Wright relate to Frederick James Furnivall, with copies of Spedding's letters to Furnivall, and one letter from Furnivall to Spedding dated 26 Feb. 1881. Accompanied by a mechanical copy of the Northumberland Manuscript.

Includes sketches by James Spedding of W. M. Thackeray, D. I. Heath, W. H. Thompson, and S. G. Spring Rice, and a comedic sketch of a group of students entitled "Conic Sections." Music includes "The Bugle Song" by Alfred Tennyson and "River that rollest" by Lord Byron set to music by Edward FitzGerald.