Letters addressed by various persons to Sir Edward Nicholas, Principal Secretary of State, chiefly in the years 1643 and 1644 during his stay at Pembroke College, Oxford, and also a few personal notes, including a note of the money Sir Edward Nicholas paid to Carew Raleigh for West Horsley. They include letters from his father, John Nicholas, letters from his mother Susan and his sister Eliza on the death of their father, and draft letters from Edward to his mother.
The bundle formerly bore the number 373, probably in the Nicholas records. One item bearing the number 289 is here probably by mistake.