Lengthy letter detailing various options for land purchases in Newcastle Upon Tyne for the new College of Medicine. Also includes brief comments on financial matters relating to the College. Signed by creator.

Article, by Leland, still attached to letter. Letter discusses amongst other matters a lecture by Max Muller and arrangements for sending certain articles for Watson's exhibition. Signed by creator.

Consists mainly of letters to Robert Spence Watson. Topics include, but are not limited to, British politics and the Liberal party, contemporary Europe, Armstrong College (later Newcastle University), the Peace Society, lectures at the Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, and contemporary literary and scientific achievements. Other regular recipients of letters include Elizabeth Spence Watson, Frederick Weiss, and Charles Prestwich Scott.

The Spence Watson's wide-ranging public activism, make their correspondence a valuable source of opinions on the social and political matters of the day from a wide range of prominent persons.