Includes:-
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (als to Lady Hester Pitt), p. 1;
Richard Gemm, English physician (als to Selwyn, 1778), p. 5;
J. J. Rousseau and Voltaire (including engraved penwork portraits each with a Prière), pp. 6-9;
David Garrick (alls, one to Selwyn), p. 13;
William Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester and friend of Pope (2 alls, 1773), p. 15;
Lady Diana Beauclerk (als to Selwyn and w/col by her) and Topham Beauclerk (als to Selwyn), pp. 24-5;
Thomas Townshend, brother-in-law of Selwyn (als and note, 1766, to Selwyn), p. 29;
Marie de Vichy Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand (d. 1780), correspondent of Voltaire, etc. (2 alls to Selwyn, and one in the hand of her valet, Wiart; see also CEL/18), p. 33;
Sir William Blackstone (als, 1778), p. 37;
Adm. Sir Philip Charles Durham (with a copy of Cowper's poem on the loss of the 'Royal George', 1782, and paper made from cable and a fragment of silk found in the wreck sixty years later), pp. 48-9;
Diderot (als), Samuel Johnson (als), p. 61;
Charles Wesley (als), p. 93;
Sir John Hawkins (als to Robert Fairfax), p. 105;
John Wesley (als, 1784, to his brother), p. 119;
Honoré Riquetti, Comte de Mirabeau (als, 1788), p. 121;
Rev. Peter Whalley (als, 1779, to George Stevens with comments on Shakespeare), p. 125;
Sir Joshua Reynolds (als and note), p. 135;
documents of the Comité du Salut Public, with signatures including Robespierre, pp. 147, 149;
Horace Walpole (several alls and notes, and small pencil sketch of a house), p. 189;
Edmund Burke (als, 1776), p. 193.