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Including the following certificates: the Mather Premium of the Institution of electrical Engineers, 1958; Distinguished Fellowship of the British Computer Society, 1973; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1974; Foreign Corresponding Academic membership of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, 1979; Faraday Medal, 1981. Notebook recording a fine art course run by Jean Bony, 1959-60; MVW's appointments diaries and list of 'things to do' culled from Filofaxes, 1981-2010; Filofax notebook of 'things to do', 1989-2004; five photographs taken at Chris Cheney's retirement party, 2007; two photographs of MVW with a whale at San Diego Sea Life, 1993; two photographs of MVW with the duke of Kent at the BCS Fiftieth Anniversary Dinner, 2007; 150 slides, including photographs of Babbage documents, VAX9000 and other hardware, and the Pinkerton Lecture in 2000.

Includes reports on several visits to successive Hot Chips conferences and an aborted visit to Serbia in 1997.

The papers include 'Towards effective time-sharing: the next step' (18 Nov. 1968); 'A language for a pocket calculator', with a letter to Clive Sinclair, 17 Aug. 1972; 'Specification for multi-chip programmable calculator'; 'The computer design situation'; 'Memory protection'; 'The role of microprocessors in a computer configuration'; 'Reflections on the state of art in operating systems'; 'New range virtual storage'; 'The problem of pattern recognition'; 'An outline of CAFS'; 'Notes on the status of MULTICS in October 1970'; 'Some notes on paging and its objectives' (16 Feb. 1970); 'The computer design situation' (26 Aug. 1969); further reflections on the same, 23 Sep. 1969; 'The future trend of operating system research' (28 Apr. 1970); 'Specification for multi chip programmable calculator', by Phillip Pittman (June 1974); 'The long term future of the computer industry'; 'The computer industry' by C. Strachey, 9 June 1964; 'IBM virtual-storage operating systems'; correspondence with Dr John Pinkerton and Dr M. R. Patel of ICL.

In most cases MVW has noted the date and location. The first lecture in the file is that delivered at Hudson to mark the end of his work in the US.

Includes rules and a programme for the convention and correspondence with A. Grasselli, Politecnico di Milano; Antonio Todisco and Antonio Canino, FAST Milan; Thomas Cook, Cambridge.