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Diaries describing College life at St John's, both as a student and as a Fellow, and his experiences as a conscientious objector and while serving in France in the Friends' Ambulance Unit; bibliographical notes on authors of mathematical and scientific works, 12th-19th century; a list of Johnian authors to 1900.

Mathematical notes.

The collection primarily consists of correspondence, arranged into various series: the 'ex libris' correspondence is that which was interleaved in George Watson's personal library and has since been reordered, and other preexisting groups of correspondence – including that with 'prominent persons', or pertaining to 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature' or to books authored by Watson – have been ordered within separate series. Typescripts and offprints of Watson's writing, and that of others, also feature, as do newspaper cuttings, photocopies of research material, and a small number of photographs. Additionally, some documentation and ephemera relating to Watson's career at the University of Cambridge and St John's College are included.

Notebooks containing mathematical notes, problems and solutions, a catalogue of Todhunter's library, letters to John Sephton.

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.

Includes notebooks, musical papers, mathematical notes, printed ephemera, and correspondence.

Miscellaneous notes; lecture notes.

Letters, notebooks, lecture notes and other miscellaneous paperwork, mainly regarding mathematics.

Papers concerning Prof. W. Johnson's lecture 'The centennial year of Herbert Walker Swift' and its subsequent publication, letters and papers concerning a patent, correspondence of Mrs Maisie Swift after her husband's death, Swift's notes on plasticity, work by Swift's students.

Notes on Pindar. Four large hardback notebooks, with lined paper written in manuscript on the rectos only, containing some loose sheets. Volume I is labelled 'Introduction O.1 - O.7'; Volume II 'O.7 contd - P.2'; Volume III 'P.3 - P.10' and Volume IV 'P.10 contd - P.12'. There is also a heavily annotated copy of a Loeb Classical Library edition of the Odes of Pindar, published in 1924. (Dates approximate. The bibliography in volume 1 of the notebooks contains references up to 1933.)