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

Letters patent (no. 1216) granted to Joseph Webb for 'Improvements in Rotary Engines'

Letters patent (no. 1684) granted to Henry Adams re his 'Invention for "A Revolving Ventilator'

Notation for Swedish Difference Engine

Three letters from Robert Stephenson to Captain Constantine Moorsom

Portsmouth Dockyard notebook

Perigal's Contributions to Kinematics

Account of the construction of the Morley Tunnel, Leeds Dewsbury & Manchester Railway

Scrap book relating to Cornish tin mines

Notes on Civil Engineering

Copy correspondence between John Wood, chairman of the Board of the Inland Revenue, and various parties regarding coffee and chicory, with reports

Bound volume entitled: "Watch, Quarter & Station Bill of H.M.S. Britannia"

The book "The Christian Visitor, on the Four Gospels" with flyleaf inscription by Florence Nightingale

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

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

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

Document book of the Anglo-Waldeck Mining Company

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')"

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'

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Dr Andrew Ure

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"

Temporary staging

Pages 176 and 177 of John Graham's report book 1838-1845

Pages 68 and 69 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 64 and 65 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

Pages 62 and 63 of the Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd minute book no.1

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 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

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Samuel Smiles

Plan of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/164.

Digit counting apparatus on the two upper wheel selectors.

Store variable selectors. Superseding drawing No 2.

Part of the end view of the Difference Engine

Sign apparatus for Plan 28a. Plan, elevation.

Plan and elevation for the calculating part of the Difference Engine. Figure 1. Superseded. Consecutive carriage.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Sketch of an apparatus for advancing stereotype frames of the Difference Engine by cranks and backing them by weights. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

A draft drawing labelled 'Sheet 3', showing card adding axis, mill adding axis, figure wheels, warning bar and lever and tens lifting slide.

Plan of part of framing of Drawing 161. Tracing of BAB A/161.

General plan and detail of the driving of the calculating part of Difference Engine No. 2. Tracing of BAB A/161.

Part of framing shown on 160. Tracing of BAB A/160.

End view and side elevation of driving and lifting apparatus.

Speculations on the driving and directive for the Difference Engine. Superseded. Arrangements.

Difference Engine wheels for driving the cranks which move the matrix frames. Superseded. Plan, elevation.

Untitled. Plan of locking plates for locking axis circularly and vertically.