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The collection includes Butler's books, manuscripts, music, photographs, pictures and drawings, and personal effects.

One paperback copy; presented to the Library by Henry Festing Jones.

Autograph manuscript by Samuel Butler, containing the draft of an unpublished article on Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. The draft begins: 'In a letter to the Athenaeum of Feb 20 1886 I dealt at some length with some recent attempts to disparage the genuineness of the Louvre picture till lately in the Salon Carre & also till lately said to represent Gentile Bellini & his younger brother Giovanni...'. The last four sheets attached to the manuscript contain a draft of a letter, in French, inscribed by Samuel Butler: 'I sent this letter with hardly an alteration to M. Kempfen (?) directuer des Musees Nationaux, Oct. 5. 1887.'

Autograph manuscripts of works by Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones.

Autograph manuscripts of works by Samuel Butler.

Autograph manuscripts, and pressed copies of manuscripts of Samuel Butler's shorter works, with additional related papers.

Autograph manuscript of Samuel Butler's poem to Hans Rudolf Faesch, beginning 'Out, out, out into the night'. Bound in a notebook with: a photographic print of a portrait of Hans Faesch; a manuscript sheet in Butler's hand containing a chronology of his walks with Hans Faesch; a manuscript draft by Butler of a translation of his poem into Italian; a printed proof of the facsimile reproduction of the fair copy manuscript of the poem, printed in 'Now & Then', June 1923; and details of a sale at Sotheby's on 1 December 1930, in which an autograph manuscript of the poem was offered for sale [and subsequently withdrawn].

Pressed copy of the autograph manuscript of Butler's revised lecture (end-dated 5 February 1894). Bound in a notebook.

Autograph manuscript of a version of a piece by Samuel Butler [first published in the Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler, Vol. XVIII (1925)]. Bound in a notebook.

Autograph manuscript in the hand of Samuel Butler, consisting of a piece copied out from another publication, with additions by Butler. An endnote reads: 'From the Index - an American paper. Dec. 10. 1874. (I do not know whether this date is the date on which I copied the above, or whether it is that of the issue of the paper. S.B. (I need hardly say that the last nine verses are spurious.)' [i.e. verses 25-33 are Butler's own compositions]. Bound in a notebook.