Incomplete notices of motions, with Gladstone's manuscript annotations for his Welsh Church Speech, regarding disestablishment.

Copy of a letter from W.E. Gladstone to GOT offering him the position of Secretary of the Admiralty; GOT's reply to Gladstone accepting the role; and a letter from GOT to his father, CET, forwarding him the two letters.

The Gladstone note is titled 'Gladstone's instance of the "false genetive". The other note is on letter paper headed 10 Downing Street

Correspondents and recipients include Baillie, Joanna; Bell, Lady Florence; Bostock, J. C.; Brown, Ford Madox; Gladstone, W.E.; Henslow, John Stevens; Hunt, W. Holman; Jackson, John Bishop of Lincoln; Jordan, C.W.; Lassell, William; Levi, Leone; Martineau, James; Richardson, John; Rothenstein, W.; Sumner, Charles; Thom, John Hamilton; Whillans, J.; Yates, Anna Maria; Yates, James, Rev. Will Turner, Henry Holland, Rev. William Ware, W Rothenstein, Mary Ann Humble, Theobald Mathew and L G Gray.
Includes reference to astronomy and botany