The file contains papers relating to JEN's application, appointment and lectures as Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London, comprising:-
- 1 autograph letter signed from Augustus Austen Leigh to JEN, undated;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Alfred Barry to JEN, 13 Dec. 1880;
- 2 autograph letters signed from George H. Blakesley to JEN, 22 Dec. 1880 and 3 Mar. 1881;
- 3 autograph letters signed from J. W. Blakesley to JEN, 11 Jan. - 13 Nov. 1881;
-1 autograph letter signed from Anne Clough to JEN, undated;
- 2 autograph letters signed from B. M. Cowie to JEN, 21 Feb. 1881 and 11 Feb. 1887;
- 4 autograph letters signed from H. Gaselee to JEN, 8 - 14 Dec. 1880;
- 1 autograph letter signed from H. D. Harker to JEN, 14 Dec. 1880;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Henry Jackson to JEN, 14 Dec. 1880;
- 2 autograph letters signed from B. H. Kennedy to JEN, 16 Dec. 1880 and 9 Feb. 1881;
- 1 autograph letter signed from J. B. Mayor to JEN, 13 Dec. 1880;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Richard Okes to JEN, 15 Dec.1880;
- 1 autograph letter signed from H. Vere Pearson to JEN, 12 Feb. 1878 [sic];
- 1 autograph letter signed from W. Perry to JEN, 17 Dec. [1880];
- 1 autograph letter signed from Henry Sidgwick to JEN, 13 Dec. 1880;
- 1 autograph letter signed from G. K. C. Smith to JEN, 17 Dec. 1880;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Philip Smith to JEN, 9 Feb. 1881;
- 1 autograph letter signed from Symes Thompson to JEN, 8 Feb. 1881 and 1 autograph letter signed from Thompson to H. Gaselee, undated;
- 1 autograph letter signed from F. Warre Cornish to JEN, 14 Dec. 1880;
- 2 autograph letters signed from W. Young to JEN, 9 and 17 Dec. 1880;
- 2 autograph letters signed from authors whose signatures are illegible, 1880;
- printed testimonials and draft covering letters for sending to members of the Gresham Committee;
- notebook for rhetoric lectures containing course outlines and syllabuses, attendance figures, correspondence and accounts, 1881-1900.