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The collection primarily consists of correspondence, arranged into various series: the 'ex libris' correspondence is that which was interleaved in George Watson's personal library and has since been reordered, and other preexisting groups of correspondence – including that with 'prominent persons', or pertaining to 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature' or to books authored by Watson – have been ordered within separate series. Typescripts and offprints of Watson's writing, and that of others, also feature, as do newspaper cuttings, photocopies of research material, and a small number of photographs. Additionally, some documentation and ephemera relating to Watson's career at the University of Cambridge and St John's College are included.

Carbon copies of typescript letters sent by Guest on St John's College choir and other business, papers relating to choir tours, and other miscellaneous correspondence.

Includes correspondence, notes and ephemera.

Letters, including correspondence with Sir Mortimer Wheeler and correspondence relating to the Piltdown Hoax; diaries and notebooks; photographs; papers relating to novels; articles by and about Daniel; notes relating to the study and teaching of archaeology. Also included is correspondence of Daniel's wife, Ruth.

Illustrated zoological notebooks, notes, cards, one model.

This material was kept by Constance Amelia Sharman (née Ginns), who was a close friend of Bates during his teenage years, when his creative efforts were directed towards art and poetry rather than the prose writing which he later made his career. The collection includes sketches, poems, letters and photographs. First editions of some of his books, which he gave to ‘Con’, accompany the collection, and are catalogued on iDiscover.

Letters from Lord Palmerston and Lady Palmerston, some notes and envelopes.

Drafts of and notes taken for 'Churchill's peacetime ministry, 1951-55', research material on the history of the British Labour movement and the Communist Party of Great Britain, other notes, some diaries, cuttings, typescripts, letters, slides and ephemera.

Papers concerning Prof. W. Johnson's lecture 'The centennial year of Herbert Walker Swift' and its subsequent publication, letters and papers concerning a patent, correspondence of Mrs Maisie Swift after her husband's death, Swift's notes on plasticity, work by Swift's students.

Letters from various correspondents regarding Stewart's 'Twelve Cambridge sermons by John E.B. Mayor; edited, with a memoir, by H.F. Stewart', published by Cambridge University Press in 1911, and 'Twelve parochial sermons', published in 1913.