A commonplace book concerning Cambridge University affairs, particularly elections and matters of law. The text runs from both ends of the book.

Includes items concerning the Library, election of the vice-chancellor, correspondence of Henry Luard, University debates, building developments and material relating to Corpus Christi and Christ's Colleges.

A manuscript copy of the agreement made between Cambridge University and the town in 1503. This reproduction was made for Roger, 2nd Lord North (1531-1600), Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.

This group of papers concerns one stage in the long campaign to relax the hold of compulsory Greek on the University's curriculum and examinations, culminating in the publication of two reports by the Studies and Examinations Syndicate in 1904 and 1906.

A series of volumes containing pasted-in entries recording the subjects of successful entries to Cambridge essay prizes up to c. 1863. The competitions featured are the Adams, Burney, Camden, Hulsean, Kaye, Le Bas, Maitland, Members', Norrissian, Porson and Seatonian Prizes; the Browne's and Camden Medals; and the Chancellor's Medal for English Poetry.

Includes: 'Commemoratio Benefactorum in alma Universitate Cantabrigiae ...'; extracts from deed drawn up between the University and executors of John Mere, 1 Mar. 1559; Matthew Stokys: brief of his legacies to the University; Queens' College: 'series Fundationis ex antiquissimis eiusdem Collegii Monumentis collecta 1616', with additions in English in another hand. fos. 1 and 28v: blank.

Four folders of handwritten calculations, c. 1930s: Schubaurer's Ellipse - 0.2 to 0.4, 0.4 to 1.0, 1.0 to 1.8, and 1.8 to 2.0. Loose items: a letter from L.J. Comrie to Hartree, 17 September 1937, discussing a calculation; a letter from Bertha Jeffreys, Lady Jeffreys, to A.E.B. Owen, 5 December 1986, forwarding a letter from Prof. L. Howarth of Bristol, confirming that the papers were likely to be those of Hartree, and citing his publications on these experiments.

Possibly intended for business of the Vice Chancellor's Court of the University when Dalton was deputy steward. Includes notes on duties of the clerk of the market, weights and measures and fines payable, draft minutes of the court, 1598 and copies of Elizabeth I's charter to the University, 1575. Also includes draft minutes of the courts of various manors in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, mostly the manors of Newmarket and Halesworth and Wratting Magna.

'The Printers, Stationers & Bookbinders of London from the Year 1500 to the Year 1535', the Sandars Lectures for 1904, 60 folios. The versos are blank throughout.

'Influence of Materials upon Writing', lectures delivered by E.H. Minns as Sandars Reader in Bibliography at Cambridge, November 1925, 81 folios: (fo. 1-58) text, with comparative tables of certain alphabets inserted (fos 7a, 12a, and 21a); (fo. 59-70) photographs. The writing is on the recto only.

Papers concerning Sir J.E. Gorst's parliamentary candidature for Cambridge University and also the Spinning House controversy.

Includes and abstract in English by Henry Bradshaw.

Correspondence from family members, members of the University and others on a wide range of subjects.

The diaries contain occasional notes of Library business, including notes of books that were offered for sale, bought, presented, recommended for the Library, missing, or mutilated; autographs in books; requests for, and receipt of, loans; complaints; engagements; binding practice; visitors; copyright claims; and library rearrangement. The diaries were continued in other hands during the absence or illness of Jenkinson.

Oldham's notes of his experimental work in physics for the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part II, 1925-1927. An enclosed letter from Oldham, 24 July 1973, explains that he came to St John's College, Cambridge, in 1925 with a degree from King's College, London, which excused him from Part I of the Tripos. A copy letter from Prof. A.B. Pippard, 12 July 1973, acknowledges receipt of the notebooks for the Cavendish Laboratory archives.

Documents and transcripts of documents collected by George Elwes Corrie. The transcripts were made in c. 1870.

Photocopy of a typescript, 141 pages, followed by a note and a list of winning poems, 3 pages. There are also photocopies of extensive correspondence with Chainey, 1982-1986, regarding his research for this work, accompanied by copies of several articles and Chainey's 'The Chancellor's English Medal', reprinted from the Cambridge review (December 1984), pp. 200-203.