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Letters and papers of Edward Atkinson (Master), chiefly from and about alumni. Includes a list of admissions 1863-1875.

Includes letters about:

(1) Mile End estate at Stepney (Middlesex), 1856
(2) the millpond at Rotherhithe (Surrey), 1857
(3) the appointment of Edward Beck as Dean, 1860
(4) tutorship, 1862
(5) gift by William Baily (admitted 1826) of books for Library, 1873
(6) administration of Library, 1878-1906 (including reports of James Rendel Harris as Librarian, 1898-1902)
(7) Thomas Tyrwhitt's drawings of Old Court buildings, 1898
(8) Honorary Fellowship of James Rendel Harris, 1909
(9) schools at Rotherhithe, 1910

Includes group of letters about students' accounts, especially for caution money, 1911 - 1914, notes for lectures on Classics, nd, and correspondence about ''Carmen Clarense'', 1921 and 1923

Letters from Robert Davies Roberts (admitted 1871) about gift of silver teapot, 1890, and from William Macfarlane-Grieve (admitted 1896) about gift of fish knives, 1896 With letter from Macfarlane-Grieve about gift of copperplate of Archbishop Tillotson (by J. Houbraken, 1747), 1899

Letters from Rev (Edward) Josselyn Beck, Rector of Rotherhithe (Surrey), about design of candlestick stands for the Chapel. Includes designs for stands. Also printed notices about Gomm Schools, Rotherhithe, 1872.

Dennis Nicholas Herbert Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford met Siegfried Sassoon in October 1954, when the latter visited Cambridge to read selections from his poetry. This collection consists of letters and postcards from Sassoon to Herbert between 1954 and 1959.

Letters Patent of George IV revoking the clause in the 1551 Statutes restricting Fellowships by area.
With large seal attached and a printed statement by the Master (Edward Atkinson) about Fellowships on Coles Foundation, 1885.

Letters rejecting offer to sell first edition of plays of William Shakespeare, including one from Joseph Power, Fellow of Clare College and University Librarian. With covering letters about discovery of this correspondence, 1938.

Many apparently kept for signatures.