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Publicity materials for the exhibition and address held at the Chapin Library, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Samuel Butler's birth.

Maps, press cuttings and correspondence collected by Henry Festing Jones, relating to Samuel Butler's sheep run at Mesopotamia, Canterbury, New Zealand.

Mounted printed from an engraving, of a lady looking over her right shoulder. Inscribed on verso 'by Charles Gogin'.

Typed letter, signed. Points out a minor error in the Memoir proof.

Photograph album containing 19 double-sided leaves of mounts. Brown mock-leather binding with embossed pattern and gold-coloured detail. The album is three-quarters full and contains various photographic portraits of Samuel Butler's relatives and acquaintances, a few landscape photographs and a few photographic postcards and reproductions of artworks. A number of the family portraits are labelled in the hand of Henry Festing Jones, and a few photographs are labelled in Butler's hand.

Mounted three-quarter-length portrait of Thomas Butler, seated beside a small table, with a pen in his right hand. Taken by J. Laing of Shrewsbury. Labelled on mount by Samuel Butler: 'My father - the Revd. T. Butler of Wilderhope House. S.B. Mar 4 1886'.

Close-up head-and-shoulders portrait of Samuel Butler, wearing a trimmed beard and striped tie and looking to the right of the camera.

'Samuel Butler Esq in account with Messrs Hoare'. Small account book with paper covers.

Hardcover ledger, containing cash accounts kept in Alfred Cathie's hand.

Wooden cabinet, measuring 14.5 x 12 x 7.5 cms, with five drawers, containing pin fasteners, an art sponge, and small tubes and blocks of Windsor & Newton paints. This is the smaller of two Japanese cabinets in the collection; the larger is XI.8. [The cabinets are referred to in a letter from Miss Savage to Butler dated 18 April 1882, indicating that Butler had acquired them before that date. See note in Henry Festing Jones's catalogue, pp.54-55.]