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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

A Practical Handbook of Dyeing and Calico-Printing

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.

Notes on metal alloys and steel castings and their characteristics

Receipt of rent for Stanhope Castle

Locking motions for carriage column.

Motion for carrying the tens, plus and minus.

Details of carriage.

Scribbling Book Volume XII. Drawing Office.

My Machine 1889 III Development of driving cams.

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

Untitled. [Drawings of cams]

Direction of force in the Analytical Engine

Probably a plan of carriage and figure columns.

Letter from unknown sender to Jane Young (nee Hackworth)

Letter from D. Dale to Henry Pease

Sketch of driving.

Print apparatus as made in the large model.

Plan of motion for carriage slide.

Sketch of framing for support cross driving axis and framing axis.

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

Printed sheet: Babbage's calculating machine

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'

Post Office Telegraphs - Diagrams of Telegraph Apparatus and Connections

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

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

Poster: Rules and Regulations for Geo. Wailes & Co.

Letter from Thomas Finch to Dr Sharpey

Arrangement drawings of ships 'Bellona' and 'Barham'

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 ship 'Iron Duke'

Arrangement drawings of HMS 'Narcissus'