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Note from Sir Astley Cooper

Letter from John Frost to an unnamed correspondent

Letter from Sir H Holland to Mrs H Greg

Documents relating to a reflecting telescope

Letter from Dr George Williams

Letter from Charles James Cockerill and John Cockerill to H Maudslay & Cie

Arrangement drawings of twin screw steel gun and torpedo vessels 'Curlew' and 'Landrail'

'New Method of Constructing Wharf Walls without the aid of Coffre Dams' by Robert Sibley

Way Bill from London to Bath

'Record of a Meeting' concerning steam ships made by W Laxton

Letter from Sir James Edward Smith to an unnamed correspondent

Letter from John Dalton to James Williamson, M.D.

Letter from Richard L Minty of Faversham to Henry Maudslay

Advertising broadsheet for Blackmore and Co.

Notice signed by J Borton Esq, Committee Secretary, to Dawson Turner Esq.

Correspondence concerning the Ordnance Survey from Joseph Banks and others

Share certificate No 1828 for the Highgate Archway Company

Publicity brochure entitled: "David Kirkaldy, Testing and Experimenting Works"

Engraved diploma awarding honorary membership of the Institution to the Hon. Mrs. Ferguson

Drawing of Messrs Shand Mason & Co's Patent Steam Fire Engine

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Royal Oak' and 'Royal Alfred'

An economical plan for examining the merits of the Velocipede, or Swift Walker, and a chance of obtaining one for five shillings

Letter from William Simons to Henry Maudslay

Collection of documents relating to the Portsmouth-to-Admiralty semaphore line designed by Sir Home Riggs Popham

Printed notice entitled: "Beningfield and Beale's Revolving Steam Engine"

Letter from Nicolas Fortin to Monsieur le Chevalier Blagden, Paris

Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London

Drawing of Swedish Difference Engine

Letter from Sir David Brewster to John Barton

Letter from Dr W. H. Wollaston to Charles Macintosh

Autograph of James Finlay Weir

Letter from M Heathorn to Maudslay

Letter from William Buckland to I Trevelyan

Discussion by Maudslay, Sons and Field? of James Surrey's method of generating steam by utilising the waste heat of coke ovens

Letter from Edmond Leonard Snee, Secretary, Regent's Canal Office to Dawson Turner Esq., Care of Messrs Barclays

Catalogue entitled: "No.2. Catalogue of the latest and most approved charts, pilots, books on navigation, naval science, and commerce: originally published by Steel & Co. and now republished and sold, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation by J. W. Norie and Company."

Pages from The Kaleidoscope Periodical, "being a Biographical Sketch of that celebrated Aeronaut, [William Wyndham Sadler] and a narrative of the events which led to the melancholy catastrophe of his death"

Entry of Grant of Annuity made by the Company of Proprietors of the Strand Bridge

Collection of letters by James Cobb describing tours taken to north Wales, Scotland, Paris, north west France and Belgium

Letter from George Cartwright to John Cartwright

Letter from Henry Maudslay to an unknown correspondent (AG)

The History of Aircraft and Flying

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

Letter from Sir W C Trevelyan to Professor Buckland

Letter from Saxe Bannister to John Mendham, Messrs. Maudslay and Field, Lambeth

Letter from William Wollaston to Saml. Parkes

Arrangement drawings of frigates 'Warrior' and 'Black Prince'

Drawing of S. W. Prong Lighthouse

Letter from Sir Edward James Smith to Mrs [?] Woodville