Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men talking. Caption reads: "Serious thing about old Solomons Screw!" "Eh? Matter?" "Oh! Some one dropped half a sovreign coming out o' the synagogue, an' he was killed in the crush."

Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men talking. Caption reads: Proprietor - "Price o' my property? It's worth £2000 if it's worth a farden." - "Oh - thanks - I'm only the tax assessor - don't mind me." Proprietor - "Er - er - beg pardon - I'll take…"

Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men talking - one is going on a trip. Caption reads: Friend - "Ah! Off to Paris - business or pleasure?" "Pleasure of course." Friend - "Wife going?" "Didn't I tell you I was going for pleasure!"

Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men talking. Caption reads: "Can you conceive anythhing more practically solemn than the denouncement in Romeo & Juliet - no poet could have made their fate so weirdly tragic - " Cynic - "Humph! Not unless he'd married 'em"

Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men out walking. Caption reads: Friend - "Where do you lecture next?" Lecturer - "Scotland." Friend - "Ah! You have a great advantage over other humourists - you're a surgeon!"

Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men observing a woman. Caption reads: "Here's this beautiful pantomime girl coming, Sam!" Sam - "Ah! Her appearance seems somewhat familiar to me." "Why - you've seen her every night for the last week or so." Sam - "Ah! Yes - but I don't think I ever looked at her face before!"

Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men eating breakfast. Caption reads: Abstainer - "Sleep well?" Reverse - "First rate." Abstainer - "I couldn't sleep a wink for the confounded fleas." Reverse - "Ah! Fleas are teetotalers!"

Consists of a watercolour sketch of two men discussing amateur theatre. Caption reads: Amateur - "Er- I saw you at our amateur theatricals last night - how did you like my assumption of Hamlet?" Friend - "Greatest piece of assumption I ever witnessed."

Two undated map of Rome. The keys are written in Italian and possibly acquired by Professor Duff whilst in Italy. The layout of the city suggests late 19th to early 20th century.

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