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Five pencil sketches on paper, mounted on one card (50 x 38 cm). [No. 8 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: 'John Leech died in 1864, the year in which Butler returned from New Zealand. There was a sale of his drawings by his sisters, and I remember going to see them as a boy, but I do not remember when; it was, no doubt, soon after the artist's death. The house was in Radnor Place, Bayswater. His sisters afterwards kept a small girls' school, and my sister Lilian went there. I have placed these Leech drawings here in order of date on the assumption that Butler bought them at the sale. He had another drawing by Leech, which used to hang in his chambers, and was given to his cousin, Reginald Worsley.']

Items 24-30. Note: items 25, 26 28 and 29 are stored on the shelves.

'Northern Side (Eastern half missing)' [hand-labelled on outer case]. Linen-backed folding map (scale 1 inch to 1 mile; Western part only, measures 72.5 cm x 58.5 cm), in hardboard slip case. Red ink lines marked on map show Butler's travels in the region.

Watercolour on paper (22 x 28 cm). Mounted and framed. [No. 10 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.]

Watercolour and pencil on paper (18 x 11.5 cm). With a second watercolour sketch on the verso, showing a sunset viewed through arches. [No. 11 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.]

Half-length portrait of Samuel Butler seated, facing to the left of the camera, with his hands clasped in his lap.

Oil on canvas (44.4 x 55.8 cm). Framed. [No. 12 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: I showed this to Gaetano Meo, and he remembered that the man was Calarossi, a model, whose brother went to Paris and became known as the proprietor of a studio there. The woman, he said, was Maria, another model. The background is Dieppe. I suppose that Butler did this study in the autumn of 1866, using nos. 10 and 11, the watercolours of Dieppe, or some other sketch made on the spot, for the background. The idea was to make portraits of two heads with a landscape background in the manner of Giovanni Bellini.'] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-heads-after-bellini-139344

Small oval-framed head-and-shoulders portrait of Samuel Butler, taken about 1866. In an envelope labelled by A.T. Bartholomew: 'From H.F.J.'s bedroom 1928'.

Bound volume containing: 'L'Indispensable: Manual for Young Performers on the Piano Forte, by Ch. Chaulieu' (London: R. Cocks, [c.1840]); 'Melodies of All Nations arranged for the Piano Forte by William Hutchins Callcott' (London: Leader & Cock, [1851-9]); 'Handel's Celebrated Choruses, Newly Arranged from the Original Scores for the Piano Forte or Organ by John Goss' (London: Addison & Hodson, [1845-8]); 'From the Vocal Works of Handel, Arranged with a Separate Accompaniment for the Organ or Piano Forte by Dr John Clarke' (London: J. Surman, [c.1845]); 'Songs, Duets, Trios, Quartetts, & Choruses, Composed by Handel, Haydn, & Mozart, with an accompaniment for the organ or piano forte, by Vincent Novello' (London: J. Alfred Novello, 1862); 'A Gem of Mozart's, arranged by J.B. Cramer' (London: Leader & Cock, [1850]); 'The Student's Practice: Compositions of a moderate degree of difficulty, intended as an introduction to the "Classical Pianist," edited by Brinley Richards' (London: Robert Cocks, [1863-7]); 'Mendelssohn's Overture and March, to Racine's Tragedy of Athalie, arranged for the pianoforte solo, by Julius Rietz' (London: Ewer & Co.); 'Two Original Melodies for the Piano Forte, composed by A. Esain' (London: D'Almaine); 'Gavottes et Musettes pour Piano, S. Bach' (Paris: Felix Janet); 'The Unpublished and rarely known Works of John Sebastian Bach, for the Clavier or Piano Forte... By Carl Czerny' (London: J. Alfred Novello [c.1850]). Some inscribed by Samuel Butler.

Identification photograph at the Paris Exhibition of 1867; portrait of Samuel Butler standing, with his arms folded, gazing up and to the right of the camera. Two copies; one stamped, labelled and signed by Samuel Butler.