Correspondence and papers of dr. John Wallis, Savilian professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford, 1649-1703, consisting of eighty-nine letters to him, drafts of letters by him and literary papers of all kinds by him. A full catalogue of them exists in manuscript in the Library; the chief are:

(fol. 8) 'Matters for a Bill in Parliament in behalf of the University of Oxford,' and two draft petitions on academical matters, all about 1658-1660 and by Wallis;

(fol. 12) Two letters by S. B. Chylinski, translator of the Bible into Lithuanian, 1662, in Latin and English;

(fol. 25) Correspondence between Wallis and Henry Oldenburg about a geometrical problem, 1668;

(fol. 38) A letter from Wallis to the hon. Robert Boyle, Dec. 13, 1671, about a 'China [i. e. Chinese] Almanack,' which letter was probably never sent, for it was founu unopened on Dec. 10, 1785, by the writer's great-great-grandson, W. Wallis;

(fol. 41) A letter from Wallis about Charles Morgan of Lincoln college, Oxford, Dec. 11, 1673;

(foll. 66, 79, 103, 103v, 103v) Letters of Wallis on academical subjects:

(fol. 70) Draft of a letter by Wallis on Thomas Hobbes, Nov. 30, 1680;

(fol. 133) Part of a sermon by Wallis on Song of Sol. i. 4, found in 1785 as (fol. 38).

There are several papers about Wallis's family and family affairs.