The correspondence listed below charts the establishment and progress of the Fund. It includes letters concerning invitations to attend (and in some cases speak at) the public meeting of 1 June 1907, and to join the General Committee; suggestions as to the purposes to which the Fund should be devoted ; the formation of groups of supporters in London, the United States and elsewhere; payments or pledges of contributions; and the commissioning of a medallion or (as was finally decided) a bust of Maitland for the Squire Library.

Correspondents include the former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour and his brother Gerald; several bishops; Cambridge University worthies; an array of active and retired senior judges; teachers of law at British and American universities; prominent British historians; and French and German scholars. Once Alexander Hill had relinquished his early central role in the establishment of the Fund, the principal recipients of the letters in this collection were Ward and Higgins. Ward received and acknowledged subscriptions, which he periodically passed to Higgins. On the latter’s shoulders fell the bulk of the administrative tasks: general correspondence, dispatch of circulars, banking of subscriptions, acknowledgement of subscriptions sent to him instead of to Ward, and liaison with B.F. Lock, the Fund’s most active supporter in London