This series consists of miscellaneous letters and relics which were preserved by JCG in a wooden box made from a mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare (the authentication is included among the box contents).
Letters include those from artists:
Charles Barry (1795-1860), Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860), Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781-1842), Allan Cunningham (1784-1842), Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873), Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859), Robert C Leslie, Gilbert Stuart Newton (1794-1835), Benjamin West (1738-1820), David Wilkie (1785-1841).
And from authors, scientists etc.:
Charles Babbage (1791-1871), Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), Philip Francis (1740-1818), John Galt (1779-1839), George Grote (1794-1871), John Frederick William Herschel (1792-1871), Washington Irving (1783-1859), Samuel Rogers (1763-1855) and Walter Scott (1771-1832).
As well as miscellaneous writers:
J Abbott, Charles Bell, F Booth, W Bosell, H C Carrick More, G Essex, June Porter, A Thorold Bishop of Rochester, and a bundle from Achille Murat.
The relics include two small autograph albums, pressed flowers and leaves, medals and coins and other intriguing items.