A notebook entitled 'Local History Notes', containing extracts from George R. Wythen Baxter: The Book of the Bastiles; or, the History of the working of The New Poor-Law (London, 1841); An Account of Rejoicings in the counties of Montgomery, Salop, etc., in honor of the Coming-of-Age of the Viscount Clive [aft. 3rd earl of Powis] ... (Welshpool, 1840); [John M. Morgan]: The Reproof of Brutus (London, 1830); 'Solicitor' [Conway Loveridge Hodgkinson]: English Justice (London, 1932); and Thomas Robert Malthus: An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798). The volume was originally used as a chemistry notebook.