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Includes:

• Rowing medals of Richard Clarke Roy (1854)
• Book plate
• Samples of flannel, hat band and blazer trimming from Buttress & Co. (1935)
• Flag relics (1869 and 1889) with correspondence
• Brass eagle from boat
• Mini pennants (1950), Tideway head of river, 2nd boat[1], and Reading University head of river[2]
• Copy of the `Morning Herald' account of Colquhoun race 1837 and various other clippings about races.

The minutes and records of the Natural Sciences Committee.

Includes: records relating to College business and activities whilst Metcalfe was Master. Additionally includes records related to Metcalfe's role as Archdeacon of Rochester and as John Fisher's clerk.

Includes notices of meetings scheduled, lists of committee members, and memos to committee members and science supervisors.

Speeches made by Fellows on reaching their 80th (and 90th) birthdays, made by invitation at the St John the Evangelist's Day Dinner. The Dinner in 2021 being cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, octogenarian speeches were made at the Domus Day, January 2022. Speeches by:
1) Prof. Louis Mordell (1968)
2) Sir Frank L. Engledow and Claude Guillebaud (1970)
3) Sir Harold Jeffreys (1971)
4) John S. Boys Smith (1981)
5) George Watson and Dr Reginald Prince (2007)
6) Prof. John Emerton (2008) this disc would not play when tried (2022) so access copy could not be made
7) Col. Richard Robinson (2013)
8) Prof. Peter Matthews (2014)
9) Dr Keith Matthews; Prof. James [Jim] Staunton and Prof. Roger Griffin (2015)
10) Dr Andrew Macintosh and Dr Christopher Robinson (2016)
11) Dr D. J. H. [Ben] Garling (2017)
12) Dr Gilbert Lewis and Dr John B. Hutchison (2018)
13) Dr George Reid, Dr Martin Richards, Prof. Nicholas McCave (2022)
14) Prof. Lane (2022)

Includes: wooden pencil box (?) with silver plaque on the outside. A plaque has been removed from the inside of the box.

Photographs depicting College life, activities, students, staff, fellows and the College's buildings, gardens and estates.

Includes minute books; correspondence; accounts; menus; notes; photographs; questionnaires and ephemera.

Includes seating arrangements, notices, guest lists, invitations and correspondence for the annual Commemoration of Benefactors' Feast. Some files contain information on the elections of Fellows. Also includes schedules of guests from 1958-2014 [series incomplete].

Two powers of attorney relating to tithe-barns and tithes in Glassonby and Addingham.

Includes a collection of programmes for performances of 'The Humorous Lovers'; 'Murderer in the Cathedral'; 'Parnassus'; 'Christ's Comet'; 'Poetry and Music'; 'The Listeners'; 'An Evening in June'; 'The Zeal of Thy House'; and 'Jobs for the Boys', Don Giovanni at the ADC Theatre. Also includes posters for 'Murder in the Cathedral'; 'Christ's Comet'; 'Antigone'; 'Romeo & Juliet'; 'Cymbeline' and 'The Knight of the Burning Pestle'. Additionally there is a menu for the Lady Margaret Players' annual dinner [dated 28th November 1949] and an undated flyer.

Includes: prints and engravings of the College site, Cambridge and individuals linked to St John's.

Includes: deeds and related documents for Pyckeryng's lands at Atwick; also includes a lease for Little Markham Manor house in Nottinghamshire between the College and Robert Chapell; sale documents for Robert White and his wife Maude of Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk and material relating to Garton's holding in Atwick.

Also includes a case of the opinion of counsel which involves Francis Carleill [sic] and Matthew Oates. In the margin of the document there is a notation concerning William Babthorpe, John Pickering and Pickering's heirs.

Includes: reports by referees on dissertations entered by applicants for St John's College fellowships. These reports are the sole record, the dissertations themselves having been returned to the applicants in most cases (there are some dissertations extant). They are invaluable for the revealing contemporary academic opinions on the subjects discussed. From 1978 onwards the reports were retained in the Master's files on each elected Fellow and those on unsuccessful applicants destroyed.

The reports and papers of the Reform of Servants Committee.

Includes: letters, agreements, contracts and bonds related to College business whilst Robert Shorton was Master.

Statements made by the by the Senior Bursar to the SJC Audit Committee includes a statement by the Senior Bursar on the 1893 audit and an account of the change from beneficial leases to rack renting in 1851-1869.

General views of the Combination and Small Combination Room, including photographic records of the plaster ceiling imperfections.

Includes: Map, copied from tithe maps of SJC land in Goodnestone parish next to Wingham, Kent.

Plan with reference, traced from tithe map, of SJC land at Wingham, on road past Staple church to Little Twitham, Kent.