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An envelope, [1904x1929], addressed to Egerton Phillimore from W. G. F. Phillimore, enclosing: 'part of Napoleon's tomb [?recte coffin] given to me by M. L. Paris Oct 1849'; seeds 'from the Saron', Switzerland, 1834; a locket of brown hair belonging to 'R. B.'; dried flowers from 'Grand Saint Bernard', July 1867; and an empty envelope labelled 'Rose's wedding ring Sept. 25 1871', and bearing a further note that the ring was 'given to A. H. May 1904'.

Letter to R. W. Phillimore, 1849, requesting the autographs of French kings (namely Louis XIII, XIV, XV and XVI) from P. A. Labouchere, and enclosing a piece of wood and some fragments of cement reputed to have formed part of the coffin and tomb of the emperor Napoleon on St Helena from May 1821 to October 1840.