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The archive contains papers of both Robert Calverley Trevelyan and his wife Elizabeth (née des Amorie van der Hoeven, known as Bessie), though the majority relate to R. C. Trevelyan and comprise personal items 1872-1951, publications 1898-1950, publications 1989-1950, reviews of publications 1898-1953, photographs 1876-1949, family material.

This archive is in the process of being catalogued: the majority of the correspondence has been catalogued at item level, while around fifteen boxes predominantly containing working notebooks and photographs remain; work on these and revisions will follow.

These letters were found in an edition of Lucan once belonging to Thomas Babington Macaulay, and containing annotations by him. Sir George Trevelyan read through Macaulay's annotations in his retirement and published Marginal notes by Lord Macaulay](https://lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/cb3e6e1b-d386-492f-b8d2-9e729a4ba531) in 1907; in these letters his son Robert discusses the text and some of Macaulay's textual criticism.