The letters have been arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent surname or business name.

Letter of Josiah Forshall to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 1-2;

Letter probably of Maria Antoinetta Gordon (signed Mary Aboyne) to Austen Henry Layard, ?1848: folios 3-4;

Letter of Wilhelm Heinrich Ludwig Gruner to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 5-6;

Letters of Edward Hawkins to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 7-10;

Letter of Sir John Everett Millais to Austen Henry Layard, 1866: folios 11-12;

Letter of Sir Charles Beaumont Phipps to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 13-14;

Letters of Sir George Scharf to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 15-24;

Letter of Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schrieber (earlier Guest) to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 25-28;

Letters of Smith, Elder and Company to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folios 29-32;

Letter of Tom Taylor to Austen Henry Layard, 1868: folios 33-34;

Letter of Ralph Nicholson Wornum to Austen Henry Layard, 1866: folios 35-36;

Letter of an unidentified correspondent, ?Edward, to Austen Henry Layard, 1848: folio 37;

Note of John Murray, publishers, relating to the John Murray Bicentenary Exhibition, 1968: folio 38.