This notebook contains miscellaneous calculations of distance and angle with reference to trees and other garden features. One page includes the dates 'November 1827' and 'Nov 1828'.
This mathematical notebook contains definitions and theorems, proofs, some analytical geometry (possibly some extracts from a book). On the final folio (f. 32), Talbot has written: 'End of Part 2 of Researches'.
The notebook lists miscellaneous expenses, including money spent during travels, between January 1832 and 31 December 1836. Notebook started: 4 Jan 1832.
This non-attributed notebook contains 100 questions (entitled 'Conundrums') with corresponding answers which incorporate wordplay. For example: '28. Why is a little negro like a white man? Because he is not at all (a tall) black'; and: '17. Why is a little thief like a Roman Emperor? Because he i...
The account book, probably by Lady Elisabeth and including entries of other family members, contains accounts for clothing and liveries from 1 June 1812 to 31 May 1813, for Lady Elisabeth, William Henry Fox Talbot and other family members. Notebook started: 1 Jun 1812.
This notebook contains mathematical notes dealing with integrals, equations of third degree, algebraic equations, integrals and differentials and trigonometric functions, and broken rational and irrational functions. It contains many auxiliary calculations; some results are copied from publicati...