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Includes 1947 Daily Mail press cutting about the building of EDSAC, reviews of MVW's published Memoirs, menu for MVW's retirement dinner at St John's College, inscribed humorously by some of those attending, programme for a degree ceremony at the City University at which MVW was awarded an honorary degree, Cambridge University Reporter notice from 1965 on the establishment of a professorship in Computer Technology, undated typescript copy of H. W. H. O. Petard [MVW], 'On the optimum size for an establishment'.

Includes letter from E. A. Benians, Master, welcoming MVW to the Fellowship at St John's, 21 Jan. 1950; extracts from the Appleton Papers held at Edinburgh University Library; notification of the death of Allan John Wilkes, 1939; letter from the Vice-Chancellor, S. C. Roberts, confirming that MVW can accept a consultancy with Ferranti, 1950; correspondence with John Brainerd in 1976-7 relating to attendance at the 1946 Moore School course; a talk given by I. Evans, 'The beginnings of operational research', 1970; extracts from Henry E. Guerlac, Radar in World War II; a notebook containing observations and experiments, 1928-9, including details of a 'picture receiver'; letter from J. Stanley Hey, 1978; letter from ?Elizabeth Monroe Boggs, 2 Oct. [no year]; table of prime numbers 'calculated by the Edsac 10 May 1949'; inspection report for King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge, 6-9 Oct. 1936; letter from I. D. Druller, former schoolmistress, 1967; photographs of the Himley fetes, 1928.

Includes correspondence with Donald Michie; Ole Franksen, Technical University of Denmark; Sir Karl Popper; Subrata Dasgupta, UMIST; Sandy (A. G.) Fraser and Akira Hasegawa, AT&T Bell Labs; W. A. Wulf, University of Virginia; Debrett's People of Today; M. S. Dean, Historical Radar Archive; Joan Clewes, U3A Cambridge; Kate Douglas, the Royal Society; Ian Garrett, BT Laboratories; Peter Naur, Copenhagen University; John Bennett; Cristina Sanmartín, MIT Press; Rober Malpas, Cookson Group; Commander Jim Wiggins, USN; Fr. Svoboda; N. J. Doran, Aston University; E. F. Clark; Fiona Holmes, BBC TV; John Boyd, Digital Equipment Co Ltd; Sir Austin Robinson, Sidney Sussex College; Toby Milsom, St John's College Cambridge; Pushkala Gopal; Major-General A. Balasubrahmanian, International Federation for Information Processing; Lucio Pinto, Olivetti Systems; Butler W. Lampson; Chris Hipwell, Computer Weekly; Mark Halpern.

Includes correspondence with Thomas Gold; Stephen Bragg, American Friends of Cambridge University; Robert Bittlestone, Metapraxis Ltd; Carlos Christensen; Sir Adrian Cadbury, the Cambridge Foundation; Lyman Spitzer, Princeton; Peter Fellgett; Donald Michie, Turing Institute Glasgow; Fiona Holmes, BBC, re an interview for 'The Information Age' (1990); Ottavio Guarracino; Jack Howlett, Editor of the ICL Technical Journal; John Pinkerton; Paul A. V. Thomas, Brock University; Ann Twiselton, MIT Press; Fritz Bauer, Institut fur Informatik Munich; Keiko Goto, Kyoritsu Shuppan publishers; Claude Vercaemer, Schlumberger Cambridge Research Ltd; Geoff Holmes, Botany School, Cambridge; W. J. Granville Beynon and Kenneth Budden; Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics; W. L. van der Poel, Delft; Geoffrey Tweedale, National Archive for the History of Computing; John Oliver, University of Essex; M. J. Rycroft, British Antarctic Survey; Norihisa Doi, Keio University; Karen M. Reeds, Rutgers University Press; Peter Hall; John McCarthy, Stanford; J. R. Quayle, University of Bath (re an honorary degree); Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow; Anthony Ralston, SUNI; Robert S. Tannenbaum, Hunter College of CUNY.

Includes correspondence with Linda Francis; W. B. Wilton, Institute of Cost and Management Accountants; Colin Ancliffe, McGraw-Hill Book Company; J. D. Roberts, Churchill College; J. J. Peppercorn, IBM; Yaohan Chu, University of Maryland; Germund Dahlquist, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm; A. B. Pippard, University of Cambridge Department of Physics; Richard F. Riesenfeld, University of Utah; C. W. Oatley, University of Cambridge; James N. Haag, University of San Fransisco; Anthony Parker, CUP; Theodore M. Bellan, McDonnell Douglas Automation Co.; Niklaus Wirth, Eidg Technische Hochschule Zürich; G. D. S. Maclellan, Leicester University; Robert W. Rector, AFIPS; John H. Hine, University of Wisconsin-Madison; M. M. Lehman, Imperial College; Peter Zinkin, Cambridge Students' Union; William Stallings, Honeywell; Andy van Dam, Brown University; Peter J. Denning, Purdue University; J. A. Ratcliffe; Martin Porter, University of Cambridge; George Ledin Jr, University of San Fransisco; Peter Hammersley; Arthur H. Waynick, Office of (US) Naval Research; V. M. Baltac, Bucharest; John T. Gilmore, KEYDATA; Anthony Debons, NATO Advanced Study Institute; N. Rochester, IBM; M. J. Goovaerts, RUCA; T. M. Balu; G. E. Rossmann, University of Delaware; Roger W. Hockney, University of Reading; Christine Kearton, Princeton; Arthur Llewelyn, DTI Computer Aided Design Centre; L. Fox, University of Oxford; Peter Denning, Purdue University; Arnold I. Dumey, Princeton; Don McClimans, University of Rochester; A. F. Damodaran, North-Eastern Regional Hospital Board, Scotland; Sir Bryan Matthews, University of Cambridge Physiological Laboratory; Hilary Bridges; I. P. Jones, National Physical Laboratory; Ben Noble, University of Oxford; D. M. Worsnip, Science Research Council; I. Jackson, Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas; Stephen A. Schuman, IBM; Harry D. Huskey, University of California Santa Cruz; H. Meynell; Tom Kilburn, University of Manchester; Ewan S. Page, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; B. J. Benzimra, Computerguard Ltd; R. A. Raphael, University of Cambridge Chemical Laboratory; Lionel March, University of Cambridge Department of Architecture; John Dawson, University of Cambridge; David Salomon, Hebrew University Jerusalem; Peter T. Kirstein, University of London; D. A. Bell, University of Hull; Ay-fang E. Yang, Rice University Houston; M. T. Hills, University of Essex; Larry Roberts, The Pentagon; Auriema Ltd; S. R. Bourne; H. Hallendorff, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm; Bulent Epir, Middle East Technical University Ankara; A. R. K. Watkinson, Academic Press Inc.; Samuel Eilon; I. J. Seligsohn, IBM.

Includes correspondence with A. R. K. Watkinson, Academic Press Inc.; A. H. Waynick, Office of Naval Research; G. K. Stoltarov, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Nicholas M. Lewis; H. G. Flegg, Open University; D. F. Barton, University of Cambridge; Jerome H. Saltzer, MIT; Peter Landshoff, University of Cambridge; J. D. Roberts, Churchill College; M. C. Wooldridge, Central Computer Agency; F. J. MacWilliams, Bell Laboratories; J. S. Knowles, University of Aberdeen; J. F. Coales, University of Cambridge; Sir William Hawthorne, University of Cambridge; Sir Robert Cockburn, Churchill College; T. William Olle; Sir Douglas Logan, Association of Commonwealth Universities; J. A. Ratcliffe; Alan J. Perlis, Yale; David Pears, Reddie & Grose Chartered Patent Agents; Peter T. Kirstein, University of London; William P. Lidinsky, Argonne National Laboratory; E. Gelenbe, IRIA; John G. Herriot, Stanford; E. Fredkin, MIT; W. D. Maurer, Berkeley; John Ellenby, University of Edinburgh; Trevor Pearcey, Caulfield Institute of Technology; Samuel Falaki, UCLA; J. W. Linnett, University of Cambridge; M. M. Lehman, Imperial College; F. J. Corbató, MIT; G. F. Mills, University of Cambridge Estate Management; Barry N. Jones; Harry Whitfield, Groningen University; S. D. Chopra, Kurushetra University; R. T. Bogg, University of Cambridge Assistant Staff Office; Richard P. Parkins, University of Cambridge; M. T. Hills, University of Essex; Muhammad Ashraf; Guy G. Boulaye, Université Paris-Dauphine; R. K. Saraf, Vidya Vihar Campus, Pilani; Paolo Sipala, University of Trieste; Arthur Llewelyn, DTI Computer Aided Design Centre; Pekka Pelkonen, University of Kuopio; M. Maunder, Infotech Education Ltd; Lucy Slater, University of Cambridge; Richard F. Shepherd, Chelsea College; Torkel Weis-Fogh, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology; L. J. Rotenberg, MIT; Ronald G. Stansfield, City University; Carlos Christensen, Christensen and Willett Associates; Peter J. Brown, University of Kent; Charles Rattray; Montgomery Phister Jr; V. M. Baltac, Bucharest; Jack Belzer, University of Pittsburgh; Jeffrey D. Ullman, Princeton; Peter J. Denning, Princeton; C. Kearton; Robin R. Green; Ivor Catt; Richard Pankhurst, University of Cambridge Department of Botany; Andrew Campbell, Interdata Ltd; Frnklin F. Kuo, Office of (US) Naval Research; R. Greaves, University of Cambridge Department of Pathology; J. Cotton, Plessey Telecommunications; Arthur Gray, CUP; Thomas Massam, University of Bologna; J. W. S. Cassels, University of Cambridge; B. R. Hale; Maurice Adler; J. H. Horlock, University of Cambridge; Glen Mules, University of Birmingham; K. B. C. Saxena, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute Pilani; David Winter, University of Cambridge Careers Advisory Service; J. M. M. Pinkerton, ICL; F. H. J. Cornish, University of York; S. Bootle, Univac; P. E. West, British Railways; Smil Ruhman, Weizmann Institute of Science; Paul Touzeau, IRIA; Ranadhir Roy; Earl C. Joseph, Univac; E. Goto, University of Tokyo; Ewan S. Page, University of Newcastle upon Tyne; Terence W. Rogers, IBM; Darrel Ince, Bangor; J. P. Verjus, Université de Rennes; R. Riley, University of Cambridge Plant Breeding Institute; Donald Davis, NPL Teddington; E. P. Wraight, University of Cambridge Department of Radiotherapeutics; J. F. Tauber, IBM; P. M. Lee, King's College Cambridge; John M. Bennett, University of Sydney; Con Driscoll, Rank Xerox; R. C. Slater, Institute of electronic and Radio Engineers; Louis Fein; P. Hammersley, United Cambridge Hospitals.

Includes correspondence with Cambridge City Council; Tim Robinson; George Watson, St John's College; J. B. Willis; Ken Livesley; Henry Goulden; John Ringrose; Ian Brown; Connie and Charlie Bachman; David Rowse; Donald Willis; Martyn Fowles (?); Alan Stripp; John Mollon; Don Hunter; Michael McIntyre, DAMTP; Kenneth Budden, St John's College; Bertha Jeffreys; R. W. Addie; Lord Kearton. Notes on RAF Anstruther; funeral service for John Crook; recipe for baked custard; several birthday cards from Nina Wilkes and from Olivetti colleagues; photograph of Frances, b. 1995; draft of deed of gift presenting the papers of Lord Hankey to Churchill College in 1981.