Pages from a notebook owned firstly by Robert Southey, later by Maurice Buxton Forman and finally ending in the possession of P. E. Gertrude Girdlestone. The three pages (removed from the original notebook) comprise of:

1 page in the hand of Robert Southey: a page of notes under the title "Vittorio Suri".

1 page with the name "Edith C Southey" written in an unknown hand.

1 page in the hand of Maurice Buxton Forman, a poem to P. E. Gertrude Girdlestone.

Contains of 2 albums of letters, including some by people of local significance like Thomas Bewick, Richard Grainger, George Stephenson, George Otto Trevelyan, Robert Spence Watson and Joseph Swan and others written by such household names as A.E. Houseman, Horatio Nelson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, William Wilberforce, Michael Faraday, William Ewart Gladstone, Thomas Carlyle, Walter Besant, Mary Shelley, Charles Babington, Garibaldi, Victor Hugo, Ellen Terry and Robert Southey. Other letters include a request for an address to facilitate the delivery of a bear skin from David Walton (1859), an account of the pranks of the 'Borrowlow Bogle' from J. Arkle (1856), the refusal to grant Madame de Bury's request that an officer in the Indian Army be promoted by Richard Airey (1860), a description of his house in China by James Bruce Elgin (1860) and a discussion of French politics and her newly-married life in the country by Frances [i.e. Fanny] Burney (1792).

Consists of letters from people of local and national significance.

Consists of letters from people of local and national significance.

Dated Nov 31 with no year, but must be after 1892 as he addresses Constance Flower as Lady Battersea.

Confirms she will be unable to attend the Meeting of the National Union of Teachers in Portsmouth. Addressee probably Mrs Eliot Yorke. Signed by creator.

1 letter, 1 postcard and 1 report. All contain information about the Brockett family, which Oxberry is researching. Signed by creator.

Informal letter of 3 sides. Signed by creator.

Discusses the architecture and surroundings of Westminster Abbey. Dated February 22, but with no year. Signed by creator.