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The additional manuscript series are artificial groups containing manuscripts from various sources. Most of the contents are single items or small groups, but they include some fairly large personal archives, either arranged in sequence or scattered in various places. See the overview of the collections (https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/overview).

Notes on inside cover, 'D. Adamson / 1832' and 'Tait [?] Rm 560 / May 15 / 1840'

Sermons probably used on a Trinity College Mission.

Catalogue kept by Sir William Frederick Pollock, Bt, of his Dante collection; several loose sheets with notes on his translation. Note and letter by his son Sir Frederick Pollock about additions he himself has made in pencil to the catalogue, since the collection has been given by his mother to Trinity.

Loose inserts: 'Meditations for Wednesdays' and piece with pencil annotation 'Character of H. S. by himself'.

Sidgwick notes that the original letter was lent to him by Mrs Grote, 3 Sept 1877. Volume also encloses an extract from a news article about University Extension, in three clippings.

Loose sheet of paper signed 'M.C.M'. In the volume itself, after describing friends and acquaintances' impressions of the Sidgwick memoir, the writer gives an account of a psychic/spiritual experience he or she felt shortly after Sidgwick's death.

Pencil notes about the volume by E[rnest] H[arrison] on inside cover and referring to a light-blue notebook of collation (Add MS a 549).

With note from 'H.O.E' addressed to 'Adams', giving an opinion on the document.

Two bound volumes, the first undated, but likely from c 1900-1910, is mostly made up of lists of books to look up, with many carrying shelf marks, and a few with a quoted passage, accompanied by a number of lists, including five pages of notes on a revision to the second edition of 'The Golden Bough', as well as a list of washing done at Trinity College in December 1903.

The second volume contains a number of shorter lists, undated but evidently later, c 1910-1920, of books to read, books sold, additions to the Golden Bough index and bibliography, books relating to Flood legends, and Folk-Lore in the Old Testament, with notes on flats, some of them detailed measurements, and a plan of his study at St Keynes; accompanied by a list of people, possibly an invitation list to an event, and a short list under the heading 'Roscoe Memorial' which includes the names Winston Churchill and Lord Crewe.

A bound volume, 'REF (erences), December 1923' on front flyleaf, with 18 pages of notes on references in 'The Worship of Nature', 39 pages of notes on references in the Ovid Fasti, and 16 pages of notes for the Addenda to the Ovid Fasti Commentary in proof, with 20 pages at the back devoted to lists of books to be brought to London 1925-1928.

Three bound volumes carrying collations of Ovid Fasti MSS, in Frazer’s hand: Volume A contains two collations for Bruxellensis 5369 (or MS X) from the Bibliothèque Royale, Bruxelles, accompanied by notes on another collator, Félix Peeters and his bibliography; it also contains a collation of the Codex Mazarinianus in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, no. 7992; with some additional pages of notes of accounts, lists of items in storage and at Barclay’s bank, a list of people to whom [unidentified] verses were sent, and a short collation of the Antwerp MS.

Volume B contains collations of three Ovid Fasti MSS, one in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich: the Codex Mallersdorfiensis sive Monacensis Lat. 8122, and two in the Vatican Library: the Codex Reginensis sive Petavianus, Vaticanus 1709 and the beginning of the Codex Ursinianus sive Vaticanus 3262, which continues in Volume C, followed by the Codex Oxoniensis sive Mazarinianus Auct. F. 4. 25. Volume C also includes a few pages of notes, including contact information of librarians who provided photographs of the manuscripts, and a list of books left in Paris in April 1929.

Manuscript copy of Morton's Compendium Physicae [published 1687], with illustrations.

Also literary notes; a printed broadsheet of Tripos verses, "Datur in Mundo continuus Entium Ordo" (with MS notes) and "Male statuit Newtonus de Origine Colorum'; one half-envelope labelled 'Hallam: Classical Notes' containing about twenty pieces; one half-envelope containing about nineteen pieces, including a list of errata for Hallam's Constitutional History.