The collection comprises manuscripts, typescripts, letters, papers, lectures, notebooks, diaries, photographs, slides, film, audiotapes, reprints, preprints, books and artefacts.
A preliminary listing is also available on the Library's website: http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/personal_papers/hoyle1/
Hoyle, Sir Fred (1915-2001) Knight and astronomer
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
The quasar controversy resolved again Labelled 'Samidzat no. 3'. Photocopy of 3/7/1
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
Photocopy of autograph manuscript, with some manuscript annotations.
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
Draft of article published Astronomy & Astrophysics 229 (Mar. 1990), pp. 93-98
Typescript
Positives of figures 1 and 2 from 1/1/10
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
Photographic positives
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
Photocopies from books (including Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge, Quasi-stellar objects (San Francisco: Freeman, 1967); Halton Arp, Quasars, redshifts and controversies (Berkeley: Interstellar Media, 1987)), photocopies of hand-drawn and computer-drawn graphs, all with manuscript annotations. Listed in 2/7/2. See also 1/1/13 and 1/1/14.
Positives of figures 4, 11 and 15 from 1/1/12
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
Figures 1-1, 3-5 and 6-1 from Halton Arp, Quasars, redshifts and controversies (Berkeley: Interstellar Media, 1987)
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
1 copy of figure 11 from 1/1/12 (without labels) (black and white); 2 copies of an image of the Horsehead Nebula (colour); 2 and 3 copies of 2 unidentified nebulae (colour); 3 copies of a graph of dry E.coli, pre-biotic polymer and data for QC-IRS 7 (colour)]
Photographic image (in negative) of galaxy NGC 7603
Part of Papers of Sir Fred Hoyle
Labelled Figure 1: the galaxy HGC 7603 appears connected to a satellite by both an arm and an arc of luminous material to the right of the arm. See also figure 15 in 1/1/12. 3 copies.