On front board: 'Specimens. Blackie & Son'. The individual items have been separately numbered and labelled from 78/i to 78/viii:

(i) Incomplete concert programme (15 Mar 1881)

(ii) Lady Clarence Paget: 'Two mazurkas for the pianoforte' (London: Chappell & Co.)

(iii) A leaf of manuscript hymns, with tunes.

(iv) John Ella: 'Souvenirs de Chipstead (Kent). Quadrilles and waltzes' (London: Mills, 1838)

(v) John Ella: 'Quadrilles, as duets' (London: Lonsdale & Mills, [1830?])

(vi) John Ella: 'Victoria March' (London: Lonsdale, [c 1875?])

(vii) Notes for a lecture on music

(viii) Flyer for Ella's 'Third msucial lecture, 1873-4' at the London Institution, Finsbury Circus.