Letters, papers, signatures and some associated cuttings

Figures represented include:

Giuseppe Acerbi (1773-1846) (no.1);

James Backhouse (1794-1869) (no.4) (see also the Hodgkin family archive, WMS/PP/HO);

Paul Bonnetain (1858-1899) (no.5);

Patrick Brydone (1743-1818) (no.8);

Lady Isobel Burton (1831-1896) (no.10);

Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890) (nos.11-13);

Joseph John Freeman (1794-1851) (no.24);

Claude Gay (1800-1873);

James Holman, "the blind lieutenant" (1786-1857) (no.26);

Hjalmar Johanssen, companion of Nansen (1867-1913) (no.29);

Sir Robert McClure (1807-1873) (no.31);

James McQueen (fl.1820), proposals for a West African chartered company (no.32);

Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) (no.33);

Baron Nils Adolf Nordenskjöld (1832-1901) (no.37);

Sir James Clark Ross (1801-1862) (nos.40-41);

Frederick Courtenay Selous (1815-1917) (no.43);

Alfred Sharpe (fl.1918), paper on the concept of a "Cape-to-Cairo" railway (no.44);

Sir John Swinburne (1831-1913) (no.46);

Jean Sylvestre (fl.1785-1817), native of Guadaloupe, member of the expedition to the North Pacific led by Jean François de Galaup, Count of La Pérouse (1741-1788) (no.47);

William Rae Wilson (1772-1849) (nos.48-49).