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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.

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.

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

Letters, certificates, photographs and miscellaneous items.

The collection includes Butler's books, manuscripts, music, photographs, pictures and drawings, and personal effects.

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.)

Drafts of and notes taken for 'Churchill's peacetime ministry, 1951-55', research material on the history of the British Labour movement and the Communist Party of Great Britain, other notes, some diaries, cuttings, typescripts, letters, slides and ephemera.

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.

Transcripts of notebooks of Victor Hugo, June 1858 - April 1859, with notes. The original notebooks are St John's College MS N.30 nos. 4 and 5.

Papers relating to the abolition of the slave trade and slavery; papers relating to the Republic of Haiti and the Kingdom of Haiti; papers relating to the Clarkson Family, including Catherine Clarkson, and friends; and miscellaneous papers including those relating to recent research into Clarkson's work. The majority of the papers date from Clarkson's lifetime.