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On numismatic and antiquarian subjects. Includes Akerman's article, "The Portraits on the Coins of the Twelve Caesars," which was published in the Gentleman's Magazine.

Expresses his determination to see his friend Owen Manning's History of Surrey completed.

Concerns personal affairs. Second letter was the last John Bowyer wrote to his father.

About the estate and sister of Thomas Fisher.

About engravings appearing in an article on Roman coins.

About his father's death. Thanks Nichols for the obituary which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine.

On the death of Joseph Cradock and family business.

About the possible publication of a series of Bruce's work in the Gentleman's Magazine and other literary projects in the Record Commission Office.

First letter sends printing instructions for the History of the City of Gloucester and asks for business advice. Fosbroke bemoans the fact that an Encyclopedia "for the Science of Antiquities" had never been printed thus foreshadowing publication of his Encyclopedia of Antiquities in 1825.

First letter concerns a memoir he has written on W. G. Maton, the physician; the second thanks Nichols for accounts of two places of antiquarian interest.