1870: folios 1-43 [Note 1];

1871: folios 44-67;

1872: folios 68-100 [Notes 2-4];

1873: folios 101-108;

1874: folios 109-128;

1875: folios 129-142;

1876: folios 143-173;

1877: folios 174-243 [Note 5];

1878: folios 244-296 [Note 6];

1879: folios 297-316 [Notes 7-8].

Notes: Note 1, Folios 40-41. Letter, 29 September 1870, from Robert Cecil to William Smith who forwarded it to John Murray III, 30 September 1870.

Note 2, Folios 76-77. Letter, 20 September 1872, from Edmund Ffoulkes to William Smith.

Note 3, Folios 78-79. Letter, 25 September 1872, from Theodore Martin to William Smith.

Note 4, Folios 84-85. Part of a letter, [October 1872], from "the writer of the art[icle] on the 'Completion of St. Paul's'" (folio 82 recto) to William Smith. The letter was forwarded as an enclosure in William Smith's letter to John Murray III, 19 October [1872] (folios 82-83).

Note 5, Folios 202-203. Letter, 17 September 1877, from Henry Wace to William Smith. Note 6, Folios 271-272. Letter, 2 October 1878, from William Smith to John Murray III, forwarding: (folios 273-275) a letter, 30 September 1878, from Henry Wace to Smith; (folios 276-279) another letter, 1 October 1878, from Wace to Smith enclosing, in turn, (folios 280-281) a letter, 30 September 1878, from Joseph Lightfoot to Wace. Note 7, Folios 308-309. Letter, 27 September 1879, from Brownlow Maitland to William Smith. The letter was enclosed in Smith's letter to John Murray III, 28 September 1879 (folios 305-307). Note 8, Folios 315-316. Incomplete letter, [10 October 1879], from William Smith to ?John Murray III.