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

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.

Regarding mosses

Regarding invitations and sketches

Declining an invitation

Subjects include temperance, botany, geology and requests for subscriptions

Regarding politics, philosophy and education

Requesting a recommendation for his son, and a letter from his son John Skynner Jr announcing Skynner Sr's death.

Correspondents include John Adamson, Thomas Leman, W H F Talbot, Emma Trevelyan, A Anderson Feldborg and C Innes. Includes discussion of botany, archaeology, antiquities, the Antiquarian Society of Newcastle upon Tyne and the death of George 5th Early of Winton. Also includes a letter attributed to Napoleon, with later notes suggesting this is innaccurate.

Correspondents include J Perceval, Annie Ogle, Anne Casborne, M St A Hilliard, Laura Capel Lofft and Joan R Severn. Subjects include payment of maintenance, financial contributions, lace making and the death of Lady Pauline. One letter, from Laura Capel Lofft to Pauline is in French. 5 undated.