Scrapbook compiled by Mr Thomson Hankey featuring correspondence, cuttings and photographs of prominent figures. Also loose signatures and cuttings mounted on modern paper,with annotations.
Includes material attributed and related to Thomson Hankey, Lord Lyons, [?] London, Macaulay, Robert Stephenson, [C Paget?], Derby, J Mareel, [J Romilly?], Mrs Mareit, Thomas Tooke, Frank Buckland, W M Thackeray, Fenwick Williams, Palmerston, G Hayter, John Russell, William Gladstone, George Lewis, Charles Wood (Lord Halifax), George Grey, Duke of Newcastle, Clarendon, [?] Herbert, Ripon, Cranworth, Westbury, Campbell, Granville, Somerset, Stanley of Alderley, Thomas Milner Gibson, C P Villiers, Canning, Moncrieff, Layard, Richard, Earl Lyons, Brand, Robert Peel, Lansdowne, Monteagle, Disraeli, G C Lewis, W Cowper, Richard Owen, Stafford Northcote, C E Trevelyan, George, Grey, John Bright, Joshua Bates, Thomas Barring, John Crichton-Stuart, John St Aubyn, W H Gregory, [Monson?], Bathurst, R Osborne, Charles Stafford, James Whiteside, Arthur Russell, Thomas O'Hagan, George Lefevre, Enfield, H C E Childers, W J Alexander, Herschel, Thomas Graham, A Lincoln, [G M Dallas], Austen Henry Layard, G O Trevelyan, W E Baxter, Robert Lowe, Sherbrooke, Francis Jeune, A W Kinglake, Colonel Alexander, Jules Gérard, Michel Chevalier, Denis le Marchant, George Peabody, William Cotton, William Gregory, Count de Strzelecki, Caroline Trevelyan, Elizabeth Eastlake, Robert Browning, Lowell, Edward Cardwell, William Massey, J Brooke, Andrew Agnew, Bernal Osborne, Charles C Clifford, Sir Andrew Buchanen, W P Wood (Lord Hatherley), W E Forster, E Knatchbull Hugessen, W P Adam, G Glyn, G C Gale, C Wequelin/Weguelin, C H Goschen, Henry H Gibbs, M W Coles, Henry Elliott

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

Including John Brown; Sir J Colvile; sir Stratford De Redcliffe; Sir W Edmonstone; Walter Fletcher; Thomson Hankey; Lord Justice Sir W M James; Lord and Lady Lyveden; Gilbert Robins; Sir G O Trevelyan.