Informal postcard from Italy containing an update on the progress of the woodcut design. Armstrong College later became part of Newcastle University.

Signed by creator.

Draws attention specifically to the proposed News Room. Includes a plan of the Exchange and an engraving of the building exterior and surrounding area.

Requisition for money to pay for the victualing of the fleet. Victualler of the Fleet named as Sir Dennis Gauden. Refers to moneys arising from a late Act of Parliament entitled "An Act for Raising Three Hundred and Ten Thousand Pounds by an Imposition on Wines and other Liquors". Signed by creator.

Details the progress of the project, the financial situation, and ends with a public appeal for financial aid to complete the project. Includes a cross-section illustration of the river and tunnel underneath, and a second illustration of visitors in the tunnel.

Letter 1: from Abbas Effendi, 12 May 1891

Letter 2: from Mirza Badi n'Nah, 28 May 1891

Letter 3: from Subh-i-Ezel, received 17 June 1896

Pages from a notebook owned firstly by Robert Southey, later by Maurice Buxton Forman and finally ending in the possession of P. E. Gertrude Girdlestone. The three pages (removed from the original notebook) comprise of:

1 page in the hand of Robert Southey: a page of notes under the title "Vittorio Suri".

1 page with the name "Edith C Southey" written in an unknown hand.

1 page in the hand of Maurice Buxton Forman, a poem to P. E. Gertrude Girdlestone.