The contents are as follows: Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke. (MS.17919);

Album of sketches, 1860-1863, chiefly watercolour, some pencil or pen and ink, and lithographs of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke (MS.17920);

Unmounted sketches, 1860-1863, of James Augustus Grant, made on his African expedition with John Hanning Speke (MS.17921);

Various papers, 1860-[1872, or after], of James Augustus Grant (MS.17922);

'Map of Thibet by J.H. Speke', 1850-1855, outlining in fact, on a scale of eight miles to the inch, the roughly triangular area of Ladakh bounded by the rivers Spiti, Indus, and Zaskar (MS.17923);

Copy of ‘A map of the route explored by Captns Speke & Grant from Zanzibar to Egypt… (London, 1863), with ink and pencil annotations by James Augustus Grant, [1863, or after] (MS.17924).