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Biographical material relating to T.R. Glover, including a scrapbook containing numerous obituary notices from various newspapers.

CV and Royal Society biographical record, personal memoirs of JAG, published biographical material from articles and websites, details of funeral, and obituaries.

Includes newspaper cuttings, correspondence, printed works, and manuscript notes.

Includes obituaries and tributes, biographical notes by Jeffreys himself and transcriptions of interviews conducted by colleagues (see also Section H). There is career, honours and awards material spanning his whole life from birth certificate to his death including letters of condolence received by Lady Jeffreys. There is significant early material, for example, correspondence with St John's College tutors, 1909-1910, Jeffreys's notes of lectures by H.F. Baker, Ebenezer Cunningham and A.S. Eddington, 1911-1914, 'Letters from Johnians 1917', including M.H.A. Newman, records of Jeffreys's period with the Meteorological Office, 1917-1922, including copy of a reference from its director Sir Napier Shaw, and Jeffreys's memorandum on the constitution of the Senate at Cambridge, 1921, addressed to the Royal Commission on the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. His appointment as Plumian Professor in 1946 and later honours, including 70th and 90th birthday celebrations, are documented. There is a little material relating to Jeffreys's father, 1886-1947, and a sequence of family and personal correspondence, 1917-1992, which reflects his continuing interest and connexions with the North East of England where he was born. Miscellaneous biographical items include a sketch book, possibly dating from Jeffreys's school days, a few letters relating to Jeffreys's early interests in photography and botany, including a letter from William Bateson, 1915, a collection of old railway tickets, Jeffreys's passports and a significant accumulation of travel literature.

Includes contemporary correspondence concerning MHAN's appointment at Bletchley Park and the development of the code breaking machine 'Colossus'; other memorobilia from the code breaking school; papers relating to books, articles and TV and radio programmes concerning the development of 'Colossus' and computing in general.

Reviews of books published posthumously.

Two printed Bibles belonging to T.R. Glover, and a manuscript notebook entitled 'Horae Sabbaticae' compiled by Glover for his wife A.E.C. Glover.

Autograph manuscripts and correspondence of Samuel Butler. Publications, extracts, papers and correspondence relating to works by and about Samuel Butler. Shelved volumes in this section are catalogued on iDiscover.

Printed publications and other material relating to Samuel Butler, his works and interests, and the St John's College collection. Shelved volumes in this section are catalogued on iDiscover.