Includes sketches by Edward Lear and tickets and a cutting relating to Gladstone's funeral.
Correspondents include Henry Adams, Joseph Arch, Matthew Arnold, Michael Aynsley, Sarah Bailey, Hugo Bell, [?] Bell, Mark [Bunson], Charles Booth, H Bothamley, John Bright, Robert Browning, James Bryce, C B Burt, A Montagu Butler, Melissa Calvers, H Campbell Bannerman, Cardwell, Lucy Cavendish, J Chamberlain, Arthur M Channell, Elsie Clarke, J W Clarke, C Colbeck, Henry Cole, W M Crook, [Brandell Cordell], Robert Crossland, Leonard Courtnay, [Dufforni?], Calm Fairweather, John Farmer, C W [Fava], W E Fonter, W C Fonter, J A Fonda, W Gladstone, Catherine Gladstone, Helen Gladstone, Herbert Gladstone, Edmund Gosse, Corrie Grant, Charles [Grey?], Edward Grey, W C Gull, Augustus Hare, Frederic Harrison, Hartley, Anthony H Hawkins, John Hay, A Hayward, [John] Henly, Arthur Helps, Will. Henry, [?] Henwick, W Hunard, [Herschell?], Frank Hols, Dorothy Howard, [?] Hughes, B Jowett, R Lauciani, Edward Lear, Emile Lanley, M E Lewes [George Eliot], Herbert Lailty, H C Lodge, Logan's Lowwood Hotel Windermere, Robert Lowe