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A letter book kept by James Wood as SJC President, Tutor and Master.

The rules and regulations of the College Library including the sub-librarian's duties, opening hours and borrowing.

Bifolio. Includes quit rents

Includes: bills for repairs to premises at Ashwell Herts on Merry's farm.

Includes: 3 maps of College land at Bapchild and Upchurch, Kent.

Correspondence with W W Robinson, solicitor for Rogerson's family, concerning title deeds and the estate. Includes plan

Map of Parsonage Farm, Bourn, Cambridgeshire, leased by Christ's College to SJC; with pen & ink scroll cartouche (no scale).

Map of SJC property at Birchington Kent, traced from 2nd class tithe map, with notes of crop rotation, (86 x 133 cms)
Original scale: 3 chains to 1 inch.

Comprising: terrier of land at Burythorpe, Kennythorpe and Leavening signed by Francis Wright (12/08/1723); terrier of lands and tenements in Kennythorpe leased to Roger Wright (11/08/1740); terrier of College property at Kennythorpe, Burythorpe and Leavening (27/03/1790). A note at the bottom of this terrier indicates that 407 trees were cut off the estate in 1790 after the terrier was made.

Registers of Chapel services showing attendance figures and names of preachers. Also some volumes include correspondence, notes and documents related to special services. Included in Vol 1 is a letter from Maurice Myers to the Dean with four stamps and the Order of Service of the marriage of Peter David Alston and Elizabeth Stephen Wordie (11 April 1953).

Chapel service lists, giving details of choral works and music at each service

A volume containing a manuscript copy of Charles Ashton’s book, “De Libro Nigro Pergamen”. The book was called “De Libro Nigro Pergamen” to distinguish it from “The Black Paper Book which confusingly was also known as ‘ the Black Parchment book.’
The Black Paper Book passed between Vice-Chancellors of the University.
Ashton's volume contains copies of charters, foundations, benefactions, University regulations and privileges etc. The volume is indexed.

A volume containing details of scholarships and prizes kept by William Bateson while serving as Public Orator of the University of Cambridge.

The volume relates to the Cambridge University Commission of 1874; it includes papers, reports, statutes and draft statutes.

Scrapbook listing painting and repairs completed in various rooms in College; lists total costs. Pasted on p.180 is an article from the Eagle (vol 209) 1932 on the Junior Combination Room.
(volume mostly empty)

Includes: two versions of the same film, one with a voice-over, showing life in College and Cambridge just before the national call-up in 1940; black & white shots of College, University, Yorkshire Society's annual hike, R.D. Eagland's house with his sister and mother, playing tennis, colour shots of Lent Term 1941 Cuppers Final, new University Library, North Court under construction, punting on the Cam, tennis tournament at Girton 1941, R.A.F. training, outing to Ely, climbing New Court Tower, ice-skating in front of New Court, tea at Grantchester.

Large group photographs taken on the morning when the Ball was finished. More recent photos are in frames with the title 'survivors'; early group photos taken outdoors are presumed to have been taken at that stage in the proceedings

Copy of a black-and-white photograph of guests at the 1909 College Ball, together with a letter from the donor, Carolyn Searson, in which she explains that the photograph formerly belonged to her grandmother (seated)