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Letter from Charles Dickens regarding the accident on Great Western Railway

Marshall's Geological Diagrams

Brewer's Journal (production record of the Stag Brewery, Wooburn Green, Bucks.)

Geometry for Children by Horace Grant

Catalogue of Useful Inventions for Cotton Spinners, Manufacturers and for all textile trades

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 2 no. 17

Complete trains of the Analytical Engine

Railway Signal Volume 3 (1885)

'A. Parkes new alloys of phosphorous'

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

Drawing entitled 'Sheer Drawing for a Steel Protected Crusier for Colonial Defence to be named'

An edition of 'The Photogram' journal vol. 5 no. 50

Notes on castings of copper, steel and other iron alloys made in Sheffield

Detailed notes on experimental steel production and characteristics made at John Brown and Co. Sheffield

My Machine 1888 II Plan of driving cams, levers, etc. in initial position.

Receipt of rent for Stanhope Castle

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Details of carriage.

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

Locking motions for carriage column.

Plan and elevation of bolts for each axis in the mill and motion for raising platform.

Sketch of driving.

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

'A.Parkes, Iron and other alloys, 1870, antimony, copper, tin, zinc'

Two letters from Sir Henry Bessemer to J. C. Bayley

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

Letters relating to South Kensington Museum

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey

Manuscript maps of the earth projected on a regular dodecahedron and on a regular tetrahedron

Letter from Sir Norman Lockyer, Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science, to an unnamed correspondent

Arrangement drawings of ship "Brisk"

Note from Sir James Clark to the Librarian at the Royal Society

Letter from Richard Proctor

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

Booklet entitled: "Aerial Navigation being the inaugural address"

Diagrams of building construction of a Gate Lodge

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Iron Duke'

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'

Letter from Dr William Withering to Miss Rogers

Rigging Plan for HMS Mildura

Description of Pumping, Flooding, and Drainage Arrangement of cruiser 'Mildura', and associated drawings

Arrangement drawings of ship 'Severn'

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

Letter from Edwin Lankester to an unnamed correspondent

Letter from Sir Francis Ronalds to White