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Correspondence relating to the compilation of 'Lists of past occupants of rooms in St John's College' published in 1895. All autograph unless otherwise stated.

Letters from George Ashby, mostly antiquarian but with some reference to his post as Rector of Barrow, Suffolk; an account of a visit to the Low Countries mostly describing the fortifications of the five Barrier Towns; a brief account of a visit to Holland and France.

Papers relating to women's education at Cambridge; correspondence and papers relating to his work in connection with the buildings at St John's College; other correspondence; degree certificates; various menus and programmes; a few photographs.

Sketchbooks, drawings, etchings, watercolours, a few photographs, letters, and miscellaneous items.

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.