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 entitled: "Catalogue of the Apparatus of Philosophical Instruments, in the Collection of Her Late Majesty Queen Charlotte, at the Observatory at Richmond in Surrey"
330 Description of a Maudslay, Sons and Field sliding-rudder fitted to the Honourable East India Company's steam vessel Pluto
A collection of glass lantern slides capturing the development of flight from an early set of images from the 1909 aviation meeting held at Reims, France through to images of aircraft from Imperial Airways and flying boats in the late Thirties. The History of Aircraft and Flying
2 sheets Map: "Survey of the River Kennet from Sheffield Mill to Garston Lock" and an untitled map of part of the River Kennet adjacent to Bear Meadow and Severn Bridges
The letter concerns Rice's [a son-in-law?] visits to Malta and other relations. It has been ascribed to James Hatley Frere, although the author may be John Hookham Frere. Letter from J. H. Frere to Mr Rice
105 Portrait photograph of Professor John Hopkinson, Professor Wilson and senior students at King's College, London
320 Certificate admitting John Harrison, Cambridge Terrace a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
235 Certificate of Merit from the Alford Agricultural Labourers' Society ... for the encouragement of deserving labourers and servants.
2 sheets Engravings entitled: 'Messrs. Telford & Douglass's Design of a Cast Iron Bridge of a Single Arch proposed to be erected across the River Thames from near St. Saviour's Church and in a Line with the Royal Exchange as shewn in their General Plan Plate IX. Span of the Arch 600 feet'
2 items Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron
3 items Letters from W B Hack, West Middlesex Waterworks, to Joshua Field at Maudslay, Sons and Field requesting alterations to an air pump rod and a glass tube for a gauge and ordering two brass steam cocks