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The material gathered here contains material related to the general history of rowing at Trinity College and/or Cambridge University rather than focusing on one specific club.

The material gathered here includes May Balls held by the First Trinity Boat Club and the Third Trinity Boat Club, and then balls that they co-hosted while still separate entities, followed by balls hosted by the First and Third Boat Club. Material is arranged into Minute books, Account books, Posters, Programmes, Photographs, and Dance cards.

The materials included in this section primarily date from amalgamation of First Trinity Boat Club and Third Trinity Boat Club in 1947. Material relating to the May Balls in their entirety have been moved to section F, Trinity May Balls. Some papers relating to silver carry start dates of 1942 but continued to be updated after amalgamation.

The materials included in this section are the records of the Third Trinity Boat Club up to the amalgamation with First Trinity Boat Club in 1947 when it formed the First and Third Boat Club. The exception to this is material relating to the May Balls in their entirety, which have been moved to section F, Trinity May Balls. Some of the materials listed here were part of a project in the 1990s to record the names that appear in them. Where this has been done, the names have been included in the body of the record.

The minute book listed here was part of a project in the 1990s to record the names that appear in them. Where this has been done, the names have been included in the body of the record.

The papers consist of minutes of meetings, accounts of boat races, financial accounts, correspondence, printed rules and regulations, dinner menus, photographs, as well as May Ball posters and programmes. The materials are arranged into series according to club, followed by a separate series for the May Balls, with Miscellanea following. This collection will continue to grow as material is received.

There were two clubs known as the Second Trinity Boat Club: one, from 1831 to 1838, often referred to as 'Reading Trinity;' and from 1840 to 1876, a second club with no connection to the original club of that name.

The materials included in this section date from the early records of the Trinity Boat Club, before it was known as First Trinity Boat Club, up to the amalgamation with Third Trinity Boat Club in 1947 when it formed the First and Third Boat Club. The exception to this is material relating to the May Balls in their entirety, which have been moved to section F, Trinity May Balls. One item in the cuttings in Miscellanea dates from 1949 but concerns the early history of the club.

Some of the materials listed here were part of a project in the 1990s to record the names that appear in them. Where this has been done, the names have been included in the body of the record.

Minutes of meetings and records of races from October 1892 to February 1911. The minutes include lists of resident members, descriptions of Trinity, university, and national regattas, and mentions of the May Ball. There is a partial index at front and cuttings pasted in and laid in loose, including bumps charts that have been filled in, and one bumps chart made by hand for the 1898 races. There are several appeal letters: to purchase the land on which the Boat House sat, Feb. 1896; to publish the history of the club by W. W. Rouse Ball, and to cover expenses in the wake of the cancellation of the Ball in 1910 due to the death of the king, and unexpected works costs required by the city.

Recording Secretaries: Thornycroft Donaldson, R. W. Broadrick, Lightly Simpson, J. Field Beale, Edward G. M. Gibson (for a term), Gerard A. Crane, Harold U. Gould, Clement J. M. Adie, R. H. Sanderson, Geoffrey Parker, Francis W. Odgers, Kenneth V. Elphinstone, Samuel R. Beale, Douglas Spicer, A. Lyndon Lawrence, Edward S. Moore, William D. Barratt, J. S. Burn, A. Close Brooks, Gerald B. Lloyd, J. Walmsley, A. Lionel Drew, Maurice Daffarn, E. D. Clark, Eric Donaldson, and Ralph S. Shove.

Discusses the history of the Trinity Boat Club colours. The letter is accompanied by a cutting from the Times dated 4 April 1992 quoting Lawrence.

Printed broadsheet listing 29 laws of the Club, printed by W. Metcalfe. Four copies, two of them carrying alterations. One alteration changes the name from the Trinity Boat Club to the First Trinity Boat Club.

A ledger book recording receipts and payments; no attendees recorded.

Photo of a group of men in suits seated and standing with a silver trophy on a table in a photographer's studio, identified in the caption below as W. A. E. V. Bagshawe (3), J. D. Inverarity (6), F. Ayers (5), M. Longridge (Bow), C. E. Malden (Str.), A. Barratt (2), H. C. Watson (7), W. H. M. Christie (4), and J. L. Seager (Cox). Caption summarising race at left, with title at top, 'Winners of Challenge Cup Kings-Lynn 1867.'

Accounts of subscriptions of members kept by the Treasurers from Michaelmas term 1863 to Michaelmas term 1868, listing surnames of members and amounts received. At front is an index of members' names.

University Pitt Club. Thanks him for the help and his splendid speech [at the Boat Club centenary dinner?]

Minutes of meetings and records of races from April 1884 to June 1892. The minutes include lists of resident members, descriptions of Trinity, university, and national regattas, mentions of the Ball and occasionally, the Procession of Boats. Cuttings are pasted in and laid in loose, and include cuttings from The Granta in 1889 about the Trinity bump supper and a poem recited by R. C. L. [Richard Cornthwaite Lambert?] after dinner; items laid in include an announcement of the May Ball 1889, a Lent bumps chart for February 1891, and a notice sent to D. A. Croall asking him to attend a C.U.B.C. meeting in which a motion to censure the President would be discussed. Mention is made of the fatal accident during the Lent Races in which the Trinity Hall boat accidentally crossed the river with the result that the nose of their boat went over the rigging of the Clare boat and killed the man in the 4 seat instantly. Mention is also made of a Christs man struck dead by lightning while walking beside a bumps race in June 1892.

Recording Secretaries: J. W. S. Burns, Charles L. Smith, Edward J. Bagshawe, John Robinson, Arthur F. Harratt, Francis H. Tuke, W. Hugh Gorringe, Cyril E. Ashford, Malcolm C. Powell, Arthur G. Johnson (briefly, before resignation with the Captain in November 1891), and David A. Croall.

Accounts running from December 1862 to January 1893. Accounts through October 1878 are signed by Treasurers Robert F. Martin, George H. Lea, William H. A. Truell, Charles Bidwell, Edward E. Porter, Brackley H. Barrington Kennett, Alfred Barratt, Frank E. Marshall, Arnold Morley, George L. Rives, Nicholas C. S. Thomas, Henry A. H. Lighton, Francis W. Briggs, Reginald Shann, Andrew Jameson, Francis G. V. Smith, and John Charrington. The accounts after this are not signed.

At the back of the volume are a series of Henley Accounts for 1878-1879, 1882, 1885-1888 kept by Stanley P. Smith, Charles L. Smith, William Chaplin, Algernon F. Nugent, and Roden H. P. Orde. In the midst of these is a list of subscriptions for the University Boat House collected by Richard T. Glazebrook, Dec. 1882.

MS list of members from 1846 to 1853 with addresses for some of those listed. Some are noted as deceased, including someone who died in 1915.

Photograph laid in loose to album. It was framed originally, and it is not clear when it was added to the album. Crew posed in an arbour with the flag of First Trinity. Caption with names, positions, and weight of crew. Names given: J. H. Richardson, W. Leaf, G. Ll. N. Mann, W. B. Close, A. G. Ogilvie, R. Booth, J. Bonham-Carter, A. B. Woodd, S. H. Graves, and T. W. Anderson. Photograph by Hills & Saunders. Caption at top reads, '1st Trin. 2nd Boat, May, 1873, Fourth on the River.'

Printed broadsheet listing 29 laws of the Club, printed by W. Metcalfe. With some text struck out in ink and the subscription changed to one guinea in ink on a duplicate sheet.

Typescript draft, corrected. Author not recorded.

Photo of a group of men in suits standing and seated on chairs and tables in a photographer's studio, identified in the caption below as W. A. E. V. Bagshawe (3), G. G. Kennedy (Bow), W. H. S. Crawford (5), W. H. Anderson (7), N. W. Hoyles (6), W. J. Pinckney (Str.), J. S. Phillips (4), J. D. Inverarity (2), G. H. Gordon (Cox). At left, a description of the races, and caption above, 'Head of River 1867.'