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Fifteen holograph letters, [1830x1831]-1888, apparently brought together as a collection of autographs. They include nine in French from Eugène Sue, the novelist, to Camille Pleyel, the piano manufacturer, mostly personal correspondence, [1830x1851] (ff. 9-26), and one from Mélanie, wife of Metternich, the Austrian Chancellor, to an unnamed count, concerning her brother, 1854 (ff. 5-6).
There are also letters in English from Charles Bradlaugh, politician, to Emile Hatzfeld, music publisher, regarding political and religious matters, 1882 (ff. 1-2), Robert Browning to a Mrs Stanley, 1882 (f. 3), W. E. Gladstone to J. M. Davidson, 1888 (f. 4), the Marquess of Salisbury to Edouard Silas, composer, [c. 1860] (watermark 1858) (ff. 7-8), and Alfred Tennyson, to Silas, 1863 (ff. 27-28).

Nineteen letters and two telegrams, 1914, to the Misses Adelina or Georgina Ganz concerning concert arrangements (ff. 3-34 verso); and other miscellaneous letters and papers, 1851-1950, including a transcript, 1937, of a letter, 1860, to Edouard Silas from Hector Berlioz, with explanatory notes by Alfred W. Ganz, 1938 (ff. 37-41), a note in the hand of Edward VII, 1886 (f. 48), and a silk concert programme, 1898 (f. 50).