(The contents of Folders CELE-2 - CELE-4 below were apparently assembled for occasional display at Somerville College.) Comprises:

Folder CELE-1: autographs removed from documents, n.d., including those of J.F.W. Herschel, [astronomer], T.S. Raffles, [colonial governor], John Soane, [architect], and J.M.W. Turner, [landscape painter]

Folder CELE-2: letters and papers by or relating to Mary, 1848-1969 and n.d. [c.1872], including:

Folder CELE-3: correspondence regarding the composition of the ballad 'Flowers of the Forest' between Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Somerville and Jane Elliot, Jan-Feb 1801; letters and leaves from an autograph book containing whole letters and autographs, 1817-1835 and n.d., including a letter of introduction signed by [The Marquis de] Lafayette, no addressee, Paris, 9 Jul 1823

Folder CELE-4: papers relating to Anne Isabella Noel Byron, Lady Byron, and her daughter, Ada Lovelace, including:

Folder CELE-5: autographs removed from documents, n.d., including those of Charles Babbage, [mathematician], [Joseph Louis] Gay-Lussac, [scientist], and Roderick Murchison, [geologist]

(For folder CELE-6 see Dep. b. 157)

Folder CELE-7: index in Mary's hand of her 'Letters from celebrated people Scientific, Literary and Political, Diploma[t]s, Family papers and Ancient documents[,] autographs etc.', with alphabetical series of envelopes and covers which held the letters, n.d. [c.1860]

Folder MSA-1: letters received by Mary and William Somerville and others, 1826-1873 and n.d., from correspondents including:

Folder MSB-1: letters received by Mary and William Somerville and others from Charles Babbage regarding progress with his 'Calculating Engine' and other matters, and referring to Mary's work, mathematical calculations and astronomical observations, 1828-1841 and n.d. [c.1840]

Folder MSB-2: three letters received by William Somerville from George Back, [Arctic explorer], regarding invitations to visit, Feb 1838; poem by [Anna] Barbauld, 'Lines written at the close of the year 1822. By Mrs Barbauld in her 80th year', n.d. [c.1822], 1822-1838

Folder MSB-3: letters received by Mary and William Somerville from Joanna Baillie, [poet and dramatist], and other members of the Baillie family, 1821-1851 and n.d., regarding Joanna Baillie's illness, her work, and other matters

Folder MSB-4: letters received by Mary and William Somerville and others, 1831-1870 and n.d., from correspondents including:

Folder MSB-5: letters received by Mary and William Somerville, 1834-1836, from correspondents including:

Folder MSB-6: Correspondent: Mary Berry, [author], 1831-1838

Folder MSB-7: Correspondent: Caterina Bon-Brenzoni, [poet], 1853-1856

Folder MSB-8: Correspondent: [Jean-Baptiste] Biot, [physicist, astronomer and mathematician], 1817-1833

Folder MSB-9: letters received by Mary and others, 1791-1848 and n.d., from correspondents including:

Folder MSB-10: letters received by Mary and William Somerville from [Alexis] Bouvard, [astronomer], 1831-1834, one to William, 25 Sep 1834, annotated in Mary's hand 'from M. Bouvard giving me some important Astronomical results'

Folder MSB-11: letters received by Mary and William Somerville from [Sir] David Brewster, [natural philosopher], mainly regarding his reviews of Mary's publications, 1834-1847 and n.d.

Folder MSB-12: letters received by Mary and other family members, 1832-1867, from correspondents including:

Folder MSB-13: letters received by Mary and William Somerville from Henry Brougham, [Lord Brougham and Vaux, Lord Chancellor 1830-1834], 1826-1860 and n.d., including correspondence regarding Mary's writing of the work to be published as The Mechanism of the Heavens

Folder MSB-14: letter from [Lord] B[yron], to John Murray referring to an alteration to his work, 12 Apr 1814

Folder MSB-15: letters received by Mary and other family members, 1832-1869 and n.d., from correspondents including Josephine Butler, [social reformer and women's activist], 1869 and n.d. [1869 and c.1869]

Folder MSB-16: manuscripts by Charles Babbage, comprising