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Letters to James and Caroline Morris. Some of the letters are from the scholar and author Francis William Newman.

Letters from Bonney to W J Sollas.

General correspondence and letters from individual correspondents such as John, Viscount Morley of Blackburn, George Eliot, Edmund Gurney, George Meredith and Henry Lewis, and other literary and scientific figures.

Correspondence between De Morgan and Sophia Frend (two items), 1836 and undated; letter from De Morgan to Sir Jonathan Pollock, 1865; miscellaneous undated verses.

Letters to Mrs Mildred Platt, wife of Professor J Arthur Platt.

Two account books of Jean Francois Corroy dated 1776-1792 and 1787-1790.

Autograph album, 1802-1805, with verses and notes from fellow students at Jena University.

Manuscript narrative comprising an account of the Mosquito Shore [Honduras/Nicaragua].

Miscellaneous papers of Robert E Symons, 1944-1959, on the literary estates of Laurence and A E Housman, including a few letters to Laurence Housman; a transcript in Laurence Housman's hand of the verses 'The shades of night were falling fast'; and a typescript of A E Housman's 'A morning with the royal family (from The Bromsgrovian, 1882).

Letters to David Hannay from various correspondents.

Notes for a bibliography of the poet Anselm Hollo. The bibliography was never completed.

Manuscript notes on Anglo-Saxon morphology and syntax. Watermarked 1819.

'Poemata Etonensia': copies of Latin verses.

Manuscript notes for lectures on the law of evidence and on domestic law.

Certificates of honour of Walter Bagehot at the University of London and at University College London, 1843-1846.

Photocopies of letters to Emil Fischer.

Letters from various correspondents to Sir William James Ashley, 1893-1914.

'The Slade, Story of an Art School, 1871-1971': typescript history of the University College London Slade School of Fine Art from 1871 to 1971.

Manuscript catalogue of a collection of small specimens of minerals, classed and arranged according to R Kirwan (by him, or following his principles).

Manuscript paper, 'Contributions to evolution theory', sent to the zoologist Sir John Graham Kerr on 1 September 1922. All red marks, and probably all ink marks, done by Kerr.

Files containing working papers of published works, lectures, broadcasts and book reviews, including manuscript drafts, notes, correspondence, typescript drafts and final copies.

The collection consists of notes, letters, draft articles and research papers. Also included are papers of Sir Grafton Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy at University College London 1919-1936, who worked with Perry on Diffusionist theories and together they led the Diffusionist School controversy of the 1920s and 1930s. There are also some papers of W.H.R.Rivers, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the Royal Anthropological Institute (1864-1922).

Typescript of an unpublished book entitled 'Elizabethan Technology or the development of the letters patent protection for inventions'. Also correspondence about the book.

Student notes on lectures delivered at University College London by William Sharpey, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology, session 1840/41; and notes on the principles and practice of medicine delivered by Charles James Blasius Williams, Professor of Medicine, session 1842/43.

The collection includes minutes of the Executive Committee, appeal brochures and reports.

Translations and notes from Hippocrates.

The first part of the collection consists of correspondence, notes, drafts and revised translations for Kabdebo's edition of translations of the poems of Attila József. The second part of the collection consists of 19 letters and manuscript poems for inclusion in 'UCL Poetry 1969', a poetry seminar workshop, edited by Kabdebo.

The collection consists of lecture notes taken when Powell was a student at Oxford, and notes for his own course of lectures at University College London.

Papers, 1788-1949 and undated, of Vendla Thane, comprising personal papers, 1890, 1910-1949 and undated, such as references, 1910-1911, 1933-1934, passport, 1923, curriculum vitae, 1923, degree certificates, 1927, a few miscellaneous items of correspondence, medical material, photographs, 1888, 1910s-1940s and undated, covering the years of her youth with her parents, her school career, and various Thane relatives, and miscellaneous printed material; genealogical notes on the Klingbergs of Stockholm (descended from the Vasas, the old Swedish royal family), 1788-1902 and undated, possibly written by Jenny, Lady Thane, and including documents about C G Thrström, 1788-1809, papers relating to the engagement and marriage of George Thane and Jenny Klingberg, 1883-1884, and memorabilia relating to Jenny Lind and her family, possibly collected by Lady Thane, and including a manuscript of 'Jenny Lind' by Lady Thane. The papers and photographs date largely from the 1900s and 1910s, and there is little material relating to Vendla's life after the 1930s, or to Sir George Dancer Thane.

Letters to Roger Kingdon from Daniel Jones, Professor of Phonetics at University College London 1921-1949, with carbon copies of Kingdon's replies.

Notebooks containing typescripts of plays, essays and poems on various subjects and eminent individuals with some manuscript annotations, all written by Fritz Gross (except one item in notebook 1).

Volume of manuscript lecture notes, 1855-1856, made by George Harley from lectures on experimental chemistry at Giessen University (Germany).

Manuscript and typescript research papers of Marie Stopes, including journal articles on botany, and photographs.

Papers concerning the Catholic Apostolic Church and religion, including notes, correspondence and photographs. There are also three card indexes entitled 'Census paper A-Z', 'Subject index J-Z' and 'Churches'.

Notes on a course of lectures on botany, delivered by John Lindley, Professor of Botany at London University. The notes were taken by Thomas Howitt, with pencil sketches in the text. Six pages of notes are of a later period, probably not by Howitt.

Manuscript version of 'Elements of Geometry'. It covers books 1-3, with 4 pages of notes on velocity which are dated 6 March 1767.

Catalogue of the private library of Professor Robert Edmond Grant, written in his hand after 1861.

Annotated copy of Offor's The triumph of Henry VIII over the usurpations of the church and the consequences of the royal supremacy with notes, newspaper cuttings and letters that were found in the volume.

Piltur og stulka: Indride and Sigrid, an Icelandic tale translated from the Danish of Kr. Kalund. Manuscript of the beginning of the work, comprising about one-tenth of the whole.

Two volumes of drawings by Thorvaldsen and one volume of notes by J M Thiele.

Notebooks, the first concerned mainly with Henry Machyn's diary, the second with the Chamberlains of the City.

Minute books of meetings of donors to the Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor, Spitalfields, London, 1854-1872, with minutes of Finance Committee meetings, 1858-1871; correspondence and papers, 1857-1888, including printed accounts, 1857-1858, 1869-1872, 1883-1884, letters, 1871, 1887, and printed notices of meetings, 1888.

Notebooks on lectures on mathematics, languages and political economy attended by Bagehot when a student at University College London.

The collection comprises correspondence and papers and covers Robertson's entire academic career. By far the largest part is the correspondence with Alexander Bain on the editing of Grote's Aristotle and on plans for Mind. There is also a group of letters from John Stuart Mill, mostly relating to the National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Ireland: civil list payments for the year beginning 25 March 1709.

Manuscript volume, c1531, containing Hector Boece's Chronicles of Scotland, translated into Scots by John Bellenden.

Manuscript volume, 18th century, containing William Glanville's reports of cases on the King's Bench. A note on the flyleaf is dated 1746.

Fifty-two letters, 1813-1823, from David Ricardo to Hutches Trower concerning economics.

Parchment roll, late 15th century, containing a genealogical table of the Kings of England to Edward IV, showing their descent from Adam and Eve, flanked with text and with a brief preface. In the last medallion of the table Edward IV (who reigned 1461-1470, 1471-1483) appears as king, although the accompanying text ends in 1453.

Manuscript volume, c1800: Lexicon Lycophronicum, comprising manuscripts of Henry Meen. Prefixed is a letter from Gilbert Wakefield, dated Dorchester Gaol, 11 Aug 1800.