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Volume of six lectures delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course I, Nos 1-5 & 9) (Original copy), consisting of: (a) 'Introductory' [Lecture on Political Economy], pp. 1-68. [Delivered on 6 December 1826. Published in 1827 and also in the Pamphleteer, Vol. 29, No. 57, 1828]; (b) 'On Wealth', pp. 69-122. [Published in An outline of the Science of Political Economy, 1836, pp. 6-13]; (c) 'On Value', pp. 123-170 [Published in An Outline..., pp. 13-22]; (d) 'On Exchange and Money', pp. 171-232; (e) 'On Money', pp. 231-290; (f) 'On the various scientific definitions of wealth', pp. 291-354. (Part published in An Outline..., pp. 53-6]. Page 290 marked: 'The sixth, seventh and eighth lectures of this course having been published are omitted in this copy' [MS missing]. Also marked in Senior's hand: 'They are published under the title of Three lectures on the Transmission of the precious metals from country to country & the mercantile theory of wealth by N.W. Senior. Murray.' [1828]. The MSS for Course II are missing [Lectures 7 and 8 are published in An Outline..., pp. 29-50].

Volume of four lectures delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course III, Nos 1-4) (Original copy), consisting of: (a) 'Cost of production', pp. 1-49 [Published in An Outline..., pp. 59-102]; (b) 'On price where competition is unequal', pp. 50-92 [Published in An Outline..., pp. 102-110]; (c) 'General laws of Price continued', pp. 93-143 [Published in An Outline..., pp. 111-118]; (d) 'Some effects of Corn Laws', pp. 144-204.

Volume of four lectures delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course III, Nos 5-8) (Original copy), consisting of: (a) 'Money', pp. 1-45; (b) 'Money', pp. 46-93; (c) 'Money', pp. 94-133; (d) 'Money', pp. 134-194. [4 lectures partly printed for private circulation in Three Lectures on the Value of Money (1840). Reprinted as No. 4 in the London School of Economics Series of Reprints of Scarce Tracts in, Economic and Political Science (1931). The last section of (d) published at the beginning of B4 (a) (see below)].

Volume of three lectures delivered by Senior at Oxford (course III, Nos 9-11) (Original copy), consisting of: (a) 'Money', pp. 1-71; (b) 'Money', pp. 72-142; and (c) 'Money', pp. 143-197. [3 lectures published, along with part of B3 (d) (see above), in 1830. Reprinted as No. 5 in the London School of Economics Series of Reprints and Scarce Tracts, etc., 1931].
The MSS for Course IV are missing. [These are partly published in An Outline... and in Three Lectures on the Rate of Wales (1831)].

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course I, No. 9), entitled 'Direct & indirect Production'. [Mostly in Nassau William Senior's hand and dated 26 July 1847].

Printed proofs, corrected by Senior, of four lectures delivered by him at Oxford (Course I Nos 1-4), consisting of (a) 'Causes that have Retarded the Progress of Political Economy', pp. 1-17; (b) 'Political Economy a mental study', pp. 18-35; (c) 'Reasons for Treating Political Economy as a Science', pp. 36-56; and (d) 'Political Economy a Positive not an Hypothetical Science - Definition of Wealth', pp. 57-76. [Published in Four Introductory Lectures on Political Economy (London, 1852).]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course I, No. 6), entitled 'Power of Gov'r to alter the degree in which wealth is desirable commenced'. [Not in Senior's hand.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course II, No. 8), entitled 'Capital concluded - Instruments'. [Not in Nassau William Senior's hand, but corrected by him. Dated 28 August 1848.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course I No. 5), entitled 'Universal Desire of Wealth'. [Only partly in Nassau William Senior's hand.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course II, No. 2), entitled 'Classification of the Instruments of Production'. [Not in Nassau William Senior's hand, except for pp. 48-49. Dated 1848.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course II, No. 6), entitled 'National Capital concluded'. [Not in Nassau William Senior's hand, but corrected by him and dated 20 April 1848.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course I, No. 7), entitled 'Power of Govt to alter the degree in which wealth is desirable concluded'. [Not in Nassau William Senior's hand.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course II, No. 1), entitled 'Classification, Nomenclature, Definition'. [Not in Nassau William Senior's hand. Dated 14 February 1848.]

Printed proofs of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course I, No. 8), entitled 'Production of Wealth'. [Corrected by Senior.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course III, No. 9), entitled 'Population. Remedial Checks'. [Not in Nassau William Senior's hand; dated 8 December 1849.]

Journal containing holograph notes on Nassau William Senior's visit to the Pyrenees, by way of Paris, 27 July-30 October 1849. The political situation in France and the rest of Europe is discussed with: Tocqueville; Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869); George Bancroft (1800-91); Normanby; Charles Dunoyer (1786-1862); Edward Twisleton (1809-74);. Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce (1791-1866); Sir Richard Malins (1805-82); Faucher; Guilhaud de Lavergne (1809-80); Pierre Dumon (1797-1870); Auguste Chevalier, et al. There are extracts from Marshal Bugeaud's memoir of the events of 1848 and lengthy descriptions of the Pyrenees and S's journey through France.
[Partly published in: (i) Journals Kept in France..., vol. I, pp. 165-219, and (ii) Correspondence-, vol 1, pp. 65-70].

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course II, No. 4), entitled 'Definitions of Capital; concluded'. [Only partly in Nassau William Senior's hand.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course II, No. 5), entitled 'National Capital commenced'. [Only partly in Nassau William Senior's hand.]

Original manuscript of a lecture delivered by Senior at Oxford (Course II, No. 9), entitled 'Abstinence'. [Not in Nassau William Senior's hand, but corrected by him.]

Journal containing holograph notes on two of Nassau William Senior's visits to Paris, 14-27 May 1848 and 12-22 May 1849. The political situation in France is discussed with a number of leading politicians and diplomats, including: Lord Normanby (1797-1863); Leon Faucher (1806-54); Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59); Horace Say (1794-1860); Gustave de Beaumont (1802-60); Count Arrivabene (1787-1881); Claude Bastiati (1801-79); Michel Chevalier (1806-79); Victor Cousin (1792-1867); Count Louis Mathieu Mole' (1781-1855); Mrs Grote (1792-1878); Louis Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877); Louis Wollowski (1810-76); Louis Joseph Buffet (1818-98); Jenny Lind (1820-87); George La Fayette (1779-1849); Claude de Corcelle (1802-92); James Kay-Shuttleworth (1804-77); Lord Abercromby (1776-1858) et al. There are descriptions of the French Assembly and Cour d'Assises, and of the events of the 1848 Revolution.
[Published in: (i) Journals Kept in France and Italy From 1848 to 1858, ed. by M. C. M. Simpson, vol. I, pp. 91-164; and (ii) Correspondence and Conversations with Count Alexis de Tocqueville (1834-59), ed. by M. C. M. Simpson, vol. I, pp. 41-51].