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Monthly Abstract of Proceedings of the Browning Society, seventh session, 1887-1888.' Includes minutes of the seventh meeting, 25 May 1888.

Monthly Abstract of Proceedings of the Browning Society, ninth session, 1889-90.' Including minutes of the seventy-second meeting, 28 Feb 1890 and minutes of the seventy-third meeting, 28 Mar 1890.

New Shakspere Society Monthly Abstract of Proceedings,' Feb-Jun 1886.

Monthly abstract of the proceedings of the Philological Society, 3 Nov 1882 to 19 Jan 1883,' includes a report by James Augustus Henry Murray on the current progress of the New English Dictionary, with names of contributors and the letters covered.

Manuscript stock account of copies of Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript held by Messrs Spottiswood & Company and Trubner & Company as estimated on 7 Jan 1868.

Advertisements publicising the opportunity for non members of the Philological Society to purchase volumes of the 'Proceedings of the Philological Society'. 2 items

Card advertising the forthcoming meetings of the Philological Society, held at University College London, 1 Nov 1889 to 5 Dec 1890, including names of speakers, topics of the papers presented and names of the elected officers of the society.

An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; and Forming a Basis of Comparison for the Use of Contributors to the New Dictionary of the Philological Society. Part I - A-D. (London: Emily Faithfull & Co, 1861). Publication listing the words beginning with the letters A to D for which definitions have been received. Originally owned by Herbert Coleridge first official editor of the dictionary. Extensively annotated with manuscript tables of additional words, mostly by Furnivall.

An Alphabetical List of English Words Occurring in the Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; and Forming a Basis of Comparison for the Use of Contributors to the New Dictionary of the Philological Society. Part III - M-Z. (Hertford: Stephen Austin, 1862). Publication listing the words beginning with the letters M to Z for which definitions have been received. Includes report by Furnivall detailing the action and proposed timescale of publishing a Concise Dictionary to act as a basis of comparison for the work already done and calling for more sub-editors to help with the preparation.

Article by Alfred Anscombe regarding the 9th century Anglo Saxon poem 'Widsith', taken from an unknown publication.

Article by Furnivall 'Mr Swinburne and Mr Spedding- Shakspere's Henry VIII', from the Academy, 29 Jan 1876, expanding his argument attributing most of Henry VIII to John Fletcher, against Algernon Swinburne's criticisms, 4pp

Second issue of the article 'The "Co" of Pigsbrook & Co' by Furnivall, explaining the reasons behind his acrimonious dispute with Algernon Swinburne and James Orchard Halliwell Phillipps. 8pp

Article by Furnivall on the fifteenth century ballad 'Huff a Galawnt', MSS Rawlinson Poet 34, taken from The Academy, 29 Aug 1896.

Article by Furnivall 'Mr Swinburne and Mr Spedding: Shakspere's "Henry VIII"', from the Academy, 8 Jan 1876, defending the attribution of most of Henry VIII to John Fletcher, against Algernon Swinburne's criticisms.

Article 'Two Sundays Out' from The Working Men's College Journal, Oct 1893, giving an account of a day trip by the Field Club of the Working Men's College to Hampton-on-Thames where they went sculling with Furnivall. 3pp

Furnivall founded the Ballad Society in 1868 after the successful publication of Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript (London: N. Trübner & Co, 1867-1868) with the intention of publishing ballads from the major collections in Britain including the Pepys, Roxburgh and Bagford Collections. The last Ballad Society publication was issued in 1899

Correspondence, bills of sale and notes relating to the purchase or modifications of boats and sculls for the Maurice Rowing Club. 23 items

Printed brochure seeking subscriptions of a guinea from members of the Browning Society for forthcoming performances of Browning's 'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' and Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors (organised for the New Shakspere Society) planned for April and May 1885.

Membership booklet for the Browning Society of the New Century Club of Philadelphia, USA, including the Society's constitution, list of members and timetable of events.