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Theoretical astronomy was one of the areas of study covered by DAMTP. An abortive attempt by the astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle to become head of DAMTP resulted ultimately in the creation in 1967 of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy.

Synge served on the Committee of the Biochemical Society as the representative of the Editorial Board of the Biochemical Journal, 1953-1955.

H/47: Meeting, 20 Mar 1954
H/48: Meetings, 19 May, 14 Jul, 15 Oct, 1954
H/49: Meetings, 12 Nov 1954, 15 Jan 1954, 10 Feb 1955

Synge joined the Editorial Board in 1949. He resigned in June 1955.

H/50: Correspondence, c 1936, 1945, 1946, 1949-1952. Includes manuscript notes on origin of papers submitted to the Journal 1936; invitation to join the Editorial Board 1949; correspondence re membership of the Board.
H/51: Correspondence, 1953-1962. Includes material re appointment of Secretary to the Editorial Board.
H/52: Refereeing papers for the Journal, 1944-1949
H/53: Refereeing papers for the Journal, 1950-1964, 1969, nd
H/54: Correspondence and papers arising from Biochemical Journal refereeing policy, 1958, 1966, Jan-Aug 1967
H/55: Correspondence and papers arising from Biochemical Journal refereeing policy, Sept-Dec 1967, 1968, 1970

Synge became a Member in 1949, joining the Scottish Group.

H/77: Correspondence and papers chiefly re membership, 1949-1951
H/78: Correspondence and papers chiefly re Synge's contribution to the Nutrition Society Scottish Group meeting on grass, Aberdeen, 21 Sept 1951
H/79: Correspondence and papers, 1952-1957

Synge was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. Material relating to Synge's election is at A/163-A/165.

H/83: 1952, 1953, 1958-1961. Includes material re exchange visits with the USSR Academy of Sciences.
H/84: 1962-1967, 1983. The material for 1983 relates to election of Fellows under statute 12.

Papers relating to this committee, on which Synge served from 1963-1965.

H/85: 1963
H/86: Jan 1964
H/87: May 1964
H/88: Dec 1964
H/89: 1965

Reports of excavations in Cyprus: 1887-1888; 1889; 1890; 1891.

FRAZ/17 is the second of two boxes (FRAZ/16-17) forming an alphabetic sequence of letters addressed to J. G. Frazer and Lilly Frazer. A fuller description of these letters may be found in the scope and content note for FRAZ/16.

FRAZ/20 consists of two boxes containing three catalogues of Sir James Frazer's private library: a complete list created in 1907 [by John Roscoe], a list of additions created in 1922, and a two-part list created in 1935-1936 with an update in 1940. Accompanied by an exact and somewhat decorative plan of the library made by assistant P. W. Filby.

FRAZ/22-27 consist of eight boxes of papers relating to J. G. Frazer's writings arranged according to the date of the publication or creation of the works, dating from 1884 to 1938. FRAZ/25 includes the papers relating to the 'Anthologia Anthropologica', which was published in 1938-1939 but was begun to be discussed in 1932, the end date of the material in that box. FRAZ/27 includes some items added at the end with earlier dates.

FRAZ/22 consists of one box of papers relating to J. G. Frazer's books, speeches, and articles written from 1884 to 1903, arranged in chronological order of appearance. 'The Golden Bough' is represented solely by cuttings, including an album of 44 reviews of the first edition, dated 1890-1891 (Item 4). The only book represented by a manuscript here is 'Pausanias's Description of Greece', with a 178 page Introduction in Frazer's hand, lacking two pages at the end (Item 59).

FRAZ/24 is the third of eight boxes of papers relating to J. G. Frazer's writings, arranged according to the date of the publication or creation of the works, dating from 1884 to 1938 (FRAZ/22-27).

FRAZ/24 consists of one box of papers relating to J. G. Frazer's books, speeches, and articles written primarily from 1921 to 1927, with four cuttings dated later, from 1929 to 1940, arranged in chronological order of appearance. There are seven manuscript drafts of articles and lectures in Frazer's hand, and two more that are incomplete. Items 32-44 are letters and printed material relating to Frazer's article 'Our Debt to France' in 'The Morning Post' 1 July 1925, advocating the forgiveness of French war debt. Items 47-59 are letters and the manuscript draft of an acceptance speech on the award of the Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur in April 1926. (Another group of letters of congratulation on the award of the Légion d'honneur may be found at FRAZ/16/52-71.) Items 72-73, and 75 are typescripts of speeches made at a gathering in the Old Combination Room at Trinity College on 1 Mar. 1927.

FRAZ/28 consists of one box of letters, writings, and printed material relating to awards and other honours amassed by J. G. Frazer, spanning the dates [after 20 Feb. 1885]-1941, the bulk dating from the 1920s and 1930s.

A significant portion of the material is in the form of letters: those announcing honours (found throughout Items 1-23), those concerning Émile Antoine Bourdelle's bust of J. G. Frazer (Items 24-41), and those concerning the Frazer lectureship and the printed Frazer Lectures volume (Items 47-87).

FRAZ/30 consists of one box of materials relating to research conducted by Lilly Frazer (before her marriage in 1896, Lilly Grove) for her illustrated book 'Dancing', published in 1895. The material spans the dates [c 1895]-1933. There are no textual research notes; there are two albums of photographs reproducing images of dancing in different cultures and time periods, gathered for consideration for inclusion in the book. There are also six unrelated photographs here, including one of a display of tribal objects, which was possibly sent to James George Frazer.

1-20 relate to Pau [Pablo] Casals, and comprise letters from Casals to Elizabeth Trevelyan (mostly in French), as well as cuttings of newspaper stories about Casals.
21-34 relate to Crompton Llewelyn Davies, and comprise letters and postcards from Davies to R. C. Trevelyan.
35-177 relate to Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and comprise letters and postcards from Dickinson to R. C. and Elizabeth Trevelyan, a letter from R.C. Trevelyan to Dickinson, a letter from Rutland Boughton to Dickinson, a letter from May Dickinson to Elizabeth Trevelyan, photographs of Dickinson, newspaper cuttings with obituaries and a poem by R. C. Trevelyan about Dickinson.
178-180 are letters from R. J. Davis of Hodder & Stoughton to R. C. Trevelyan, about the publication of Trevelyan's translation of Aeshylus' "Oresteia".

1-128: letters from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan, a few also addressed to Ursula Trevelyan. 76 and 114 include drafts or copies of poems by R. C. Trevelyan; 105 includes a copy of a poem by Wang Yi
229-258: postcards from R. C. Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan, except for 231, which may be from a member of the Bell family.
259-261: letters from Elizabeth Trevelyan to Julian Trevelyan
262: letter from Anna Maria Philips to Elizabeth Trevelyan
263-298: letters from R. C. Trevelyan to Edward Marsh
299: Draft(s) of verse in R. C. Trevelyan's hand
300-323: letters and a postcard (305) from Edward Marsh to R. C. Trevelyan

NB: the jump from 128 to 229 appears to be a numbering error, not one indicating that material is missing.

1-30: Letters from Marie Busch to R.C. Trevelyan
31-46: Letters and postcards from Oswald Valentine Sickert to R. C. Trevelyan
47--56: Letters from Robert Oswald Sickert to R. C. Trevelyan
57-61: Letters from Eleanor Sickert to R.C. Trevelyan
62-64: Letters from Bessie Sickert to R.C. Trevelyan
65: Telegram from Vera Donnet (later Vera Bowen) to R. C. Trevelyan
66-79: Material relating to Logan Pearsall Smith: letters and a postcard from Logan Pearsall Smith to R.C. Trevelyan, and a letter from Robert Gathorne Hardy to Elizabeth Trevelyan regarding Pearsall Smith's letters to Trevelyan.
80-151: Material relating to Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy: letters and postcards from Suhrawardy to R. C. Trevelyan; typed copy of a poem by Suhrawardy; typed copy of an extract from one of Suhrawardy's letters; draft letter from R. C. Trevelyan to Gilbert Murray recommending Suhrawardy for a post at the League of Nations Secretariat, with Murray's reply; draft letter from R. C. Trevelyan about translation, probably to Julien Luchaire in reply to a letter suggested by Suhrawardy; letter from Brian Lunn about arranging reviews of Suhrawardy's book "Essays in Verse".
152-154: Copy letters from A. C. Swinburne to Pauline, Lady Trevelyan; newspaper cutting of article reprinting two Swinburne letters to Edmund Clarence Stedman.
155-227: Material relating to Sir Donald Francis Tovey and his family, comprising: letters and postcards from Tovey's first wife Grettie (Margaret Kerr Cameron) to Elizabeth and R. C. Trevelyan; letter from Grettie's aunt Jane Anderson to Elizabeth Trevelyan; letter from Hubert Warre Cornish to R. C. Trevelyan about Grettie's transferral to an asylum; letters and telegrams from Tovey's second wife Clara to Elizabeth and R. C. Trevelyan; letters from Mona Benson, producer of Tovey and Trevelyan's opera 'The Bride of Dionysus', to R. C. Trevelyan; letter from Arthur Cole to R. C. Trevelyan about Tovey material given to the library at King's College, Cambridge; letter from Roger Fry to Elizabeth Trevelyan regarding Donald Tovey.

Letters (with one postcard) from Caroline Trevelyan to Elizabeth Trevelyan, except 138 and 140, which are letters from Caroline Trevelyan to R. C. Trevelyan.

Working notebooks of R. C. Trevelyan containing versions of published and unpublished poetry, plays, essays (some from his school days) and translations. Some sheets of compositions inserted; letters from Macmillan and Co., G. E. Moore, G. M. Trevelyan and Elsbeth Dimsdale to R. C. Trevelyan, and from R. C. Trevelyan to Thomas Sturge Moore.

Working notebooks of R. C. Trevelyan.

Drafts and proofs relating to several of R. C. Trevelyan's works: his translation of Euripides' "Medea"; "Aftermath"; his and Elizabeth Trevelyan's translation of Vondel's "Lucifer"; his "Three Plays: Sulla, Fand, The Pearl-Tree"; "Sisyphus", "Thamyris; or, Is There A Future For Poetry"?"; and "Simple Pleasures".

R. C. Trevelyan's reminiscences of Donald Tovey and Clifford Allen.

Correspondence relating to a BBC broadcast of Trevelyan reading his own "Simple Pleasures".

Letters and postcards from E. M. Forster to Elizabeth Trevelyan. Also included are five letters from R. J. Buckingham to Elizabeth Trevelyan, 3-5 and 83-84, written in 1935-1936 and 1950 to report on Forster's recovery from operations.