The collection of signed autograph letters was compiled by Miss Margaret Cave, (later Turville-Petre), chiefly in the 1890s. It has been arranged in the following series: MS Add.10462/1/1-16, letters received by the Cave family, 1882-1897, including Margaret and her parents; subsequently a few letters received by her and her husband, Oswald Turville-Petre, 1912-14; MS Add.10462/2/1-16, letters received from a Cave family friend, Alfred Newton, Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge and Professor of Zoology, mainly consisting of letters to him from other academics, 1879-1893; MS Add.10642/3/1-65, signed autograph letters given to Margaret Cave from friends of the family and others, including the publisher, Charles Kegan Paul, from correspondents including Frederick Locker-Lampson (10462/3/35), Marry Anderson de Navarro (10462/3/43) and Anne Benson Procter (10462/3/48), also from Wilfrid and Mrs Ward, Father, Later Cardinal, Gasquet and Baron von Hugel, covering the period 1800-1900; MS Add.10642/4, a collection of miscellaneous signatures cut from letters,1850-1900; MS Add.10642/5, a set of envelopes with diplomatic seals addressed to Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, 1892-1903; MS Add.10642/6/1-5, miscellaneous signed photographs and prints from musicians and writers including Sir Archibald Geikie, Sir Charles Santrey, Jan Paderewski and Phillipp Scharwenka, 1890-1900; and MS Add.10642/7/1-3, manuscript lists of the autograph collection and related biographical notes.