Includes some of Beckford's wrappers, a few sketches by Beckford, and a few notes and a number of sketches by Franchi, with (c. 5, fol. 34) a note in an unidentified hand 'Lettres à Franchi personne doit les voir xbre 1846', and (c. 11, fols. 167-9) a note, 1857, and a letter, n.d., concerning the purchase of parts of the correspondence. Translated extracts from the letters are printed in Life at Fonthill, ed. Boyd Alexander (1957).