Collection of letters, bound in one volume, and arranged in approximate alphabetical order.
Nos. 1-17, 19-46 and 48-88 (1 January 1814 - 28 June 1845) are letters to the Reverend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, mainly on bibliographical and literary topics, from various correspondents including:
- Dr Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857), Bishop of London, 1830 (no. 1);
- Dr Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, n.y. (no. 2);
- Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1811-1864), Lord Lincoln, later 5th Duke of Newcastle, 1844 (nos 3-4);
- Dr Charles Parr Burney (1785-1864), schoolmaster and book collector, 1829-30 (nos 5-6);
- Edward Herbert, formerly Clive (1785-1848), Lord Clive, afterwards 2nd Earl of Powis, politician, n.d. (no. 8)
- Edward Copleston (1776-1849), Bishop of Llandaff, 1843-48 (nos. 9-10 and 47);
- Robert Curzon (1810-1873), 14th Baron Zouche of Harringworth, traveller and collector of manuscripts, 1838 (no. 12);
- George Canning (1770-1827), prime minister and parodist, 1822 (no. 15);
- Thomas Chalmers (1780-1847), Church of Scotland minister and social reformer, 1831 (no. 16);
- Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1783-1862), physiologist and surgeon, 1840 and 1849 (nos 17-18);
- Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector, n.d. (nos 21-23);
- Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), politician and book collector, 1829-45 (nos 27-30);
- William Wyndham Grenville (1759-1834), Baron Grenville, prime minister and chancellor of Oxford University, 1829 (no. 31);
- Charles Grey (1764-1845), 2nd Earl Grey, prime minister, 1837-38 (nos 32-33);
- Sir Francis Freeling bart (1764-1836), postal administrator and book collector, 1826 (nos 34-35);
- Joseph Hume (1777-1855), radical and politician, 1832 (nos 36-38);
- William Howley (1766-1848), Bishop of London and, from July 1828, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1828-30 (nos 39-45);
- Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789-1862), headmaster of Eton, 1829-43 (nos 48-50);
- William Henry Lyttelton (1782-1837), 3rd Baron Lyttelton, politician, 1829-32 (nos 53-54);
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859), Baron Macaulay, historian, essayist, and poet, 1834 (no. 56);
- John Herman Merivale (1779-1844), lawyer and literary scholar, 1829 (no. 57);
- William Charles Macready (1793-1873), actor and theatre manager, n.d. (no. 58);
- Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton (1785-1851), 4th Duke of Newcastle, 1824 and 1845 (nos 61-62);
- Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), prime minister, 1829 (no. 63);
- William Roscoe (1753-1831), historian and patron of the arts, 1814 (nos 73-75);
- George Granville Leveson-Gower (1786-1861), 2nd Duke of Sutherland, 1842 and n.d. (nos 77-78);
- George John Spencer (1758-1834), 2nd Earl Spencer, 1815-1829 (nos 80-82, 84-86);
- Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary, 1823 and 1844 (nos 87-88).
No. 89 is a note from Dibdin to the binder "Mr Herring" [Charles Hering], 3 April 1813, relating to 'the Spencer Volume'.
No. 90 comprises instructions from Dibdin to the printer concerning his Bibliotheca Spenceriana.