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Scottish letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for obtaining sulphur, sulphurous acid and other products from pyrites

Volume entitled: "Commander's Complete Book. H.M. Ship Queen, 116 [guns]"

Letters patent granted to Thomas Farmer for 'Improvements in treating Pyrites to obtain Sulphur, Sulphurous Acid and other products'

Bound manuscript volume entitled: "Diary of a Week in North Wales By Henry Sharrock"

Documents of Philip Hardwick regarding Euston Station

Copy letter from Isambard Kingdom Brunel to the Directors of the Great Western Railway

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Volume entitled; "Specimens of turning by Henry Perrigal Esqr. and given by him to Jas. Wilcox"

Volume entitled: "[Record of] Lead ore raised at Longstone Edge Mines, Sampled ... and sold"

Letters patent granted to Thomas Clarke and John Varley for 'An improvement on the atmospheric system of propulsion which is also applicable to other motive purposes'

Manuscript notebook entitled: "On Magnetism"

Volume entitled: "Customs of Mendipp Mines"

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Volumes entitled: "The natural history of British shells including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discover'd in Great Britain systematically arranged ('in the Linnean manner')"

Volume entitled: "Magpie Mine Resolution Book"

Volume entitled: "Longstone Edge Mines, In Derbyshire"

Sketch books of drawings of fragments recovered from the shipwrecks of the Royal George and the Edgar

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Manuscript entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"

Volume entitled: "Arrete du Ministre des Travaux Publics portant reglement pour l'Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris"

PHD: 'Specimens of the work of spiral and oval drawing machine'

Melksham Turnpike Trust

Diary of John Watson, London & Greenwich Railway Co

Notes and observations on ores and compounds

Temporary staging

A letter from Brunel to G Dollond saying the entrance to the tunnel will be at Wapping

Drawing entitled 'Sectional Drawing for a Steel Protected Cruiser for Colonial Defence to be named'

Brunel's autobiographical note

A letter from Brunel recommending "practical men"

Elevation of parts of middle group drawn in plan on No. 127.

Visitors pass

Untitled. [Operations for the Analytical Engine]

A letter from Brunel to Monsieur D'avannes, commenting on the working conditions, accident and health records of the workforce at the Thames Tunnel

Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales by the Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, Volume II

Great Western Railway – Drawing No 2 Side elevation and Cross Section

‘Experiments, Practical Working etc., of J. Gray’s Patented Improvements in Steam Engines, etc.'

Printed pamphlet entitled 'A Short and Sure guide to Railway Speculation. A Few Plain Rules how to Speculate With Safety and Profit, in Railway Shares. By a Successful Operator.' Dedicated to George Hudson by ‘A Director’. 6th ed, with additions

Letter from D. Gardmen to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offering contract for gravel paths and suggesting a type of stove for the new station

Letter from Stephen Salles to unknown (presumably Hardwick) offer to model Euston Station, rejected

Letter from Hardwick to Euston Station Enlargement Committee, regarding the completion of buildings with accompanying report from a member of his staff

Letter from Hardwick to unknown regarding screening of counter in Great Hall Euston due to cold drafts experienced by staff

Letter from Hardwick to Mr Lund (?) regarding the ‘ornament in the resistance of the new building at Euston Station’

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Envelope from an unknown sender in Darlington to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Soho Cottage, Shildon

Cross-written letter from Miss Smith to Jane Young (nee Hackworth), Vilvorde, Belgium

Cross-written letter from Elizabeth Dove, Leeds to Prudence Nightingale (nee Hackworth), Darlington

Notice entitled 'Clarence Railway'

Notice entitled 'At Special Meeting of the Company of Proprietors of the Clarence Railway Company, held at the George and Vulture Tavern, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London...'

Notice entitled 'At the Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Clarence Railway, Held at the Town Hall, Stockton...'