Including prescriptions

Letter written at the Administration du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, au Jardin du Roi, Paris to M. de Blainville. Acknowles reciept of Blainville's work 'Manuel de malacologie et de concyologie' which as been placed in the Museum library. The letter is signed by Cuvier and L. Cordier as administrative professors of the Museum, and by Bon as secretary.

Letter written at Devonshire Square to Mrs Woolmore. Written in the third person agreeing to support a candidate for appointment at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum

Copies of official correspondence.
Includes an account of Sir Edward Colebrooke's remittances to Calcutta and a copy of the resolution signed by George Swinton, General Secretary to the British Government. The last page is badly damaged and missing some content.
Includes correspondence with W Ewer and J MacSween.

Features 'Sonnet on the Closing Year'

Press cuttings on a range of subjects including education, phrenology, election results, science, religion, temperance, Ceylon, Italy and history. Also includes a pamphlet entitled 'catechism of health' and a leaflet promoting lectures by Mr Mainzer on n

Regarding British Museum matters, including acknowledgements for donations and reference to antiquarian matters including the location of James Bruce's journals.

Inviting Walter to a dinner commemorating Alfred the Great, with a draft response, cuttings regarding his publications and a request to transfer to the parish of Nettlecombe and reference to the establishment of Alexandra College. Includes printed leaflets.

Includes letters from Lord Bentinck about Colebrooke's career and Trevelyan's accusation of corruption. Also includes letters about the career of Lt. Henry Trevelyan.
Also includes correspondence with W H Macnaughten and G Swinton

With a call for essays on temperance and related cutting and a printed reply letter regarding subscriptions for a proposed monument to the Duke of Northumberland