Including papers of Masters, Professors and Fellows of Downing College, and gifts from past members. Includes academic administrative records but not estates correspondence.

Concerns Downing College history and old members; mainly correspondence with old members about raising money for portraits of W.P. Schreiner and Francis Annesley.

Very little personal correspondence is extant in the archive. These letters were mainly preserved amongst the correspondence of Sir Busick Harwood and any order or reason for their survival separate to other Annesley correspondence is lost.

Stewards' and Bursars' correspondence, and that of people acting in these capacities even if not the contemporary Steward or Bursar themselves, or prior to official titles existing for the responsibilities.