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Papers relating mainly to the candidature of Sir George Cornewall Lewis for the Herefordshire constituency in the general election, 1852, including: correspondence, [1852]-[1854]; canvassing lists, 1852; electoral registers, 1851; lists of voters, polling lists and election bills, [c. 1852]; miscellaneous election papers, [1847]-[1852]; and miscellaneous, 1844-[1859].

Letters from Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman, of Harpton Court, co. Radnor, to W. E. Gladstone (78) 1841-1863, and to Frederick Calvert (6) 1855-1860, together with three letters, 1863-1864, from Gladstone to Lady Lewis, a letter, 1863, from him to Sir George's brother, Sir Gilbert Frankland Lewis, and a letter, 1863, from Calvert to Lady Lewis. The letters to Gladstone largely concern matters arising during the writer's tenure of office as chancellor of the exchequer, 1855-1858, as home secretary, 1859-1861, and as secretary for war, 1861-1863. Some of them also reflect the literary and scholarly interests shared by Gladstone and Lewis.