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Three pencil and crayon drawings, intended to illustrate (but ultimately not included in) the chapter on 'The Decline Of Italian Art' in 'Alps and Sanctuaries'. Includes 'Noah's Ark / A Funeral' and 'By a London ragged schoolboy, 1858'. Mounted and framed (33.5 x 47.5 cm).

One black and white photographic print showing Butler's mother seated with a young girl on her lap; one hand-coloured print, after a photograph taken by H.P. Robinson in 1858.

Bound volume, inscribed by Samuel Butler: '15 Clifford's Inn, Fleet Street E.C.'. Contains: 'Favorite Marches, Minuets & Movements composed by G.F. Handel, arranged for the Piano Forte by William Hutchins Callcott' (London: C. Lonsdale); 'Handel's Celebrated Hautboy Concerto (Nos. 2 and 5) as performed at the Concerts of Antient Music, adapted for the Organ or Piano Forte by W. Crotch' (London: Birchall & Co.); 'VIII Suites pour le Clavecin composees par G.F. Handel' (Leipzig: C.F. Peters); 'Handel's Celebrated Concertante for Violins, Tenor & Violoncello (from Select Harmony) performed at the Concert of Antient Music, adapted for the Harpsichord or Pianoforte' (London: Rt. Birchall); 'Six Concertos, for the Organ or Piano Forte, composed by G.F. Handel, edited by S.J. Noble' (London: C. Lonsdale); 'Handel's Celebrated Water Musick Compleat. Set for the Harpsichord. To which is added, Two Favourite Minuets, with Variations for the Harpsichord, by Geminiani' (London: I. Walsh). Contains brief pencil annotations by Samuel Butler.

'Containing above one hundred favorite Oratorio & Opera Airs'. Paperback.

Twelve oval photographic prints mounted on one card (42 x 36 cm). Portraits labelled by Samuel Butler: H.T Gillison (St John's); H.B Biron (Trinity Hall); E.L. Horne (Clare); E. Boulnois (St John's); Jason Smith (St John's); T.L. Inge (Magdalene); H. Hoare (St John's); J.H. Haycock (St John's); J. Fisher (St John's); J.W. Bond (St John's); E.A. Sparks (St John's); G.A. Paley (St John's).

Cast iron sheep-brand, 50 cm long, with a candlestick brand motif. A paper label attached to the handle reads: 'One of Butler's Sheep brands from Mesopotamia N.Z. Sent by Mr. L.G.D. Acland See his letters herewith 6 Dec. 1925 & 23 Sept. 1926 See also my Introduction to the Shrewsbury Edition of Erewhon Revisited Vol XVI Henry Festing Jones 25 Jan 1927'. The brand is stored in the wooden crate (approx. 52 x 12 x 15 cms) in which Henry Festing Jones sent it to St John's College from London; the crate bears a postmark and a nine pence stamp. Transcipts of the letters referred to on the label are in the collection at VIII/16/3/6.

Portfolio in portrait format, containing unbound printed sheet music by Handel and others. Includes: 'Das Beruhmte Largo von G.F. Handel' (Wien: Friedrich Schreiber); 'A Favorite Chorus from Belshazzar, composed by Handel' (Addison & Hodson); 'Six Songs translated from the German of Heine by R.W. Fullerton, composed by A.L. Eigher' ([London]: Robert W. Ollivier, [1860]), inscribed to Samuel Butler from the composer; 'The Celebrated Chorusses, from Handel's Oratorios, arranged for the organ or piano forte by J.C. Nightingale' ([London]: Halliday & Co., [c.1830]), Books 7, 9 and 10; 'Handel's Hornpipe, arranged for the piano by D. Brocca' ([London]: William Czerny, [1869]); 'The Overture, Pastoral Symphony and Choruses in the Sacred Oratorio of Messiah' ([London]: Rt. Birchall, [c.1815]); 'Handel's "Water Piece"' ([London]: Preston and Son, [1818?]); 'Handel's Twelfth Chandos Anthem, "O Priase the Lord, Ye Angels"' ([London]: Novello); 'Gemme d'Antichita, Raccolta di Pezzi Vocali, composti dai piu Celebri Maestri Antichi' (C. Lonsdale). Also contains one sheet of manuscript music, being a copy of two minuets arranged by G.B. Lully, in the hand of Mary Butler (sister of Samuel).

Print on paper (13.5 x 10.5 cm; unframed) of an engraving of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, viewed from the road (London: Rock & Co. [No.327]). Not dated.

Four-page fragment (pp.9-12 of 12) of an ALS containing part of the article 'Our Emigrant', subsequently published in The Eagle, Vol. II [1861], pp.101-13. The text contained within the letter fragment corresponds to the text of p.109, line 30, to the end of the article. The letter was presented to the collection by Sir John Sandys in 1914, who discovered it in a drawer; see the account published in The Eagle, Vol. XXXV [1914], p.115.

Photographic print, by Mr Kilburn of Regent Street [London]. Inscribed on verso 'Henrietta Butler. Feby 15th. 1862'.