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Letters, certificates, photographs and miscellaneous items.

Typescript and manuscript notes, correspondence, reprints, and annotated books, mostly relating to Aeschylus. Also a manuscript play 'The Fall of Troy'.

Memorabilia from THF's time at St John's: a framed matriculation photograph for 1920, two sets of mathematical instruments, a slide rule, a wooden ruler with initials C.F.H., a printed booklet of logarithms, a silver cigarette case embossed with the College crest, a small wooden box with the College crest on the top.

The papers in this collection were removed after Richard's death from drawers and filing cabinets in his College rooms, and presented to the College by his widow. The arrangement here preserves in broad outline the system adopted in the cabinets, though there has been some tidying in the interests of clarity and to correct obvious misfiling. The wider collection also includes a copy of the dissertation submitted in successful pursuit of a Fellowship at St John's College, 1964, a bound copy of Richard's PhD dissertation, 1965, and a complete paper set of his published papers, all of which are held in the College Library.

RNP represents Richard Nelson Perham, NLP represents Nancy Lane Perham, and SJC represents St John's College, Cambridge throughout this listing.

Papers should be cited using class and file numbers as follows:

St John's College Cambridge, Perham Papers I.6, letter from A. B. Cee to RNP, 1 Jan. 1970.

Catalogue of Taylor's books, lecture notebooks, passports,some invitation cards and menus, a notebook recording invitations given and received throughout Taylor's time as Master, letters, annotated copies of his works, College bills. Appointment diaries from the Master's Lodge 1887-1908, plus Mrs Taylor's diaries for 1907-08.

The collection includes photographs, audio-visual media, memorabilia, certificates, press-cuttings, correspondence and reviews relating to Cradock's books, a small quantity of papers relating to Cradock's professional activities, and some personal correspondence.

The collection came to the Library in two phases. Boxes 1-4 contain notebooks, typescripts, printed items and a few photographs, mostly relating to Engledow's travels in Africa and Asia and to his agricultural research. Boxes 5-11 contain a broader assortment of notes, correspondence, reminiscences, memorabilia, photographs and artefacts, relating mainly to Engledow's personal (non-academic) life and activities, as well as copies of printed publications by or collected by Engledow. The grouping of material in boxes 5-11 largely preserves the arrangement assigned by Engledow's daughter Ruth Steketee, who presented this part of the collection to the Library in 2014. [N.B. Additional material relating to Engledow and not catalogued here can be found in the Glover collection (Box 8), Yule Box and Pamphlets collection (Box E).]

Correspondence with family, friends, colleagues and fellow mathematicians; documents relating to Newman's father and mother; documents relating to the Government Code and Cipher School at Bletchley Park and the development of the code breaking machine 'Colossus', both contemporary and post-war; Newman's Will and obituaries; other miscellaneous documents.

Includes correspondence, diaries, notebooks, typescripts and one photograph.

A collection of letters from members of St John's College Cambridge addressed to David Morphet (BA 1961) in his capacity as editor of the book 'St John’s College Cambridge: Excellence and Diversity' (Published London: Third Millennium, 2007). Many contain reminiscences and anecdotes of St John's and Cambridge and some enclose photographs and items of ephemera.