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Six holograph letters from [Sir] W[illiam] Jones [jurist and orientalist] to ?Rich[ar]d Johnson, 1784-[1787] and undated (personal and domestic matters, points of Indian botanical interest, the writer's hymn to [the Hindu goddess] Sereswaty, his intention of composing eighteen such hymns [to various Hindu gods and goddesses] including Indra and Lacshmy, his 'Discourse on the Arabs' [delivered to the Bengal Asiatic Society, 1787]). Both the writer and recipient were resident in India.

Miscellaneous autograph letters from Sir William Jones, orientalist (1746-1794) to J. Miller and Samuel Parr (1747-1825), from Samuel Parr to William Roscoe (1753-1831) and from Thomas Pennant (1726-1798) to Richard Gough (1735-1809).

A manuscript which is said to have belonged to Sir William Jones, orientalist and jurist, and which contains notes on cases tried in India for trespass, assault, murder, etc., including cases for the Pundits, together with the answers, 'Sir William Jones's charge to the Grand Jury in 1788', 'Copy of a Paper in the handwriting of the Late Sir W. Jones', queries relating to Hindu law, etc.