Three sets of papers on the buildings and grounds of the Royal Observatory:

Papers on the archaeology of the buildings and grounds, 1835-1847, including a note headed 'Sir Christopher Wren'; a copy of a patent dated 15. Hen. 6. m. 7. (1437), concerning a grant of 200 acres of pasture land around Greenwich to the Duke of Gloucester; a map of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich (probably John Flamsteed's); questions and answers on the building of the Royal Observatory; and correspondence with Mrs J. Pond and Mrs Storey (née Maskelyne).

General correspondence on the buildings and grounds, including correspondence with Admiralty agents. There are letters on the Magnetic Observatory; letters on small alterations to the Observatory House; a plan of the buildings and grounds of the Royal Observatory dated 14 June 1836: a plan, dated 17 February 1837, concerning a slit in the roof of the Magnetic Building; a plan and section of the Magnetic House dated 1836; a plan, dated 10 June 1837, concerning a slit in the roof of the Magnetic Building; a plan of the grounds enclosed in the Spring of 1837 for the Royal Observatory, 21 June 1837; a memorandum about the Meridian Mark at Chingford; an indenture concerning the Meridian Mark; plans for the covered passage that would cover the Quadrant Room and diagrams of the proposed alteration of the porch door; a specification and sketch of repairs to be executed at the north terrace wall; and a specification and sketch of work to be carried out to support the north-east angle of the retaining wall of the entrance to the Royal Observatory.

Official correspondence on buildings and grounds, with a diagram of a stove for the Magnetic Building; a bill headed 'Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Estimate for 1840/41'; a 'Plan of the Computing Room and apartments above it, as it is proposed to alter them', dated 28 July 1841; and a printed plan of the buildings and grounds of the Observatory.