The miscellany includes: P.1: Copy [c1700], endorsed ‘Coppie Letter Queen Katherine to King Henry being gone in an Expedition to France’
p.5: Copy [c.1800] endorsed: ‘Princess Mary’s letter to the Lord Admiral…’ [c1547]
p.9: Copy [c.1700] of letter from Lady Brian, governess to Princess Elizabeth, to Lord Cromwell [c1536]
p.13: Copy [c1700] of Wm. Cecil’s declaration on his actions after the death of Edward VI
p.17: Copy [c1700] of letter from Elizabeth to Mary, nd
p.19: Copy [c.1700] of letter from Elizabeth to Mary, 1558
p.23: Copy [c.1730] of letter from Elizabeth to Protector, Somerset, 21 February
p.27: Copy [c.1700] of letter from Elizabeth to Somerset, 7 March
p.31: Copy [c.1720] of letter ‘from Sir Henry Sydney to his son, Sir Philip Sydney’, nd
p.35: Letter to Nicholas Hardinge (Clerk to the House of Commons) from on the origin of the King’s Champion, 1734
p.39: Copy [c1750] of letter from M. de Fenelon to the Duke of Burgundy
p.43: Copy [c1750] of letter from King Stanislaus to his daughter, nd
p.51: Copy of letter from Voltaire to Mme. Denis, 1753
p.55: Verses, endorsed: Rondeau de Fontenelle sur le systeme cartesien
p.59: Verses on Mme. de Pompadour, by Fontenelle
p.61: Copy of letter from Voltaire to Rousseau, 1755, with reply
p.69: ‘Epitre de Voltaire en arrivant dans sa terre pres du lac Leman’, 1755
p.73: Verses, endorsed: ‘Voltaire a sa maison, 1755’, [in Lady Hervey’s hand]
p.75: ‘Supply and Ways and Means 1757’ [detailed estimate]
p.79: Letter from M. Gottched on the King of Prussia, 1757
p.83: Letter from Voltaire to M. D’Argent, 1758
p.88: ‘Supply of 1758’ [detailed estimate]
p.89: Copy of verses sent to the King of Prussia by his sister, 1758
p.91: ‘Supply for 1759’
p.96: ‘Supply for 1760’
p.97: ‘Verses of Voltaire to the President Renault, 1760’
p.99: ‘Vers de Voltaire – 1762’
p.103: Verses on Mme. d’Egmont
p.105: Epitaph on Mme. de Pompadour
p.107: Copy of above
p.111: Tragedy of Persifle (in French verse)
p.119: French verses
p.121: Letter to Lady Harvey from Mme. d’Estille[?]
p.125: Copy [by Lady Hervey[?] of French epigram on Marshal Soubise
p.127: French verses on Mme. du Deffand
p.129: French verses on Cupid, entitled ‘Enigme’
p.133-139: French verses
p.141: Verses, ‘a Madame de Clermont D’Amboise’
p.143: Endorsed by Lady Hervey: Vers de l’Abbe de Voisenon
p.145: Copy of undated letter from the King of Prussia to ‘my Lord Marshall’, [in French]
p.149: Verses by Voltaire and the Chevalier de Bouflers, 1765
p.153: Copy of letter from Voltaire to M. Thomas, 1765
p.157: Verses ‘A Mademoiselle Clairon’ by Voltaire. [printed paper]
p.161: Letter (partly in verse) from Voltaire to Tronchin, 28 April
p.165: Verses: ‘Epitre de M. de Voltaire au Roy de Prusse’
p.169: ‘Epitre de Volterre [sic] au Marechall de Richelieu’
p.173: ‘Verses: ‘M. de Voltaire au Roi de Prusse’
p.177: ‘Vers de M. de Voltaire au Cardinal Quirini’ [Querini]
p.181: Les Torts [Copy by Lady Hervey, endorsed by der: ‘de Voltaire’]
p.185: ‘Vers a mademoiselle de liveri’. [endorsed: ‘Epitre de Voltaire’]
p.189-197: Verses by Voltaire
p.201: ‘Voltaire a sa maison’