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Typed notes, by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill, on the distribution of Samuel Butler's manuscripts following his death.

Extract from Nature, 18 February 1904, featuring F.W. Hutton's article'Hering's Theory of Heredity, and its Consequences'. An autograph letter from O.J.I. Alpers to Henry Festing Jones, dated 11 May 190[4] and written in response to the article, is attached.

ALS. Encloses a letter addressed to Samuel Butler (c/o Longmans) 'from an admirer of your lucid & logical style', which expresses the reader's disappointment with 'Erewhon Revisited'.

Pages printed from www.apptism.com, relating to an app for 'The Way of All Flesh'.

Offprint from the Journal of Philology; cited as Vol. XXVIII (1903), actually No. 55 (1901). Bound in a paper cover, inscribed by Butler: 'T.L. Agar's "Emendationes Homericae" as he is please to call the emendations which he proposes for the Odyssey / See p. 71. &c [?] - for some very careless, incorrect, & unintelligent remarks on the passage describing the brooch of Ulysses -'. The author refers to Butler on p.72 of the article.

Extract (p.26) featuring two photographs, by George Gerard and G.E. Mannering, of 'One of the few historical buildings in Canterbury, and (to literary folk) the most interesting: Butler's cottage on the Mesopotamia run, in which he wrote "Erewhon"', with explanatory notes.

Linen-backed folding map (measures 59 cm x 49.5 cm). Labelled on verso in Samuel Butler's hand.

Proof copy of 'Holbein's Dance' from the Athenaeum Printing Office, with MS corrections by Samuel Butler. A note in his hand reads: 'Set up by the Athenaeum, but not published by that paper. See my letters of Oct. 19 1886, & thereabouts.'

Autograph note, relating to extracts from Samuel Butler's Notebooks published in The English Review, June 1932 [see item II/1/6].

Typed transcript of a letter addressed from 15 Clifford's Inn, London E.C.