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The collection comprises: letters to Arthur Hamilton Smith, including one from John Forsdyke, April 1939, on the controversial British Museum cleaning of the Parthenon sculptures, c. 27 items, 1903-1939; Smith's 'Statement of Services' and testimonials in application for the position of Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, 1908; notebooks kept on archaeological expeditions in Asia Minor, 1884 (includes two photographs) and Cyprus, 1890s; 'Letts Oblong Diary, 1909' containing an account of travels in Greece, Egypt and Italy.

Personal material of Arthur Hamilton Smith includes a notebook labelled ""Annals of the C[ambridge University Fencing Club, founded 1882"; diary, 1883-1890 (with gaps); [Apostles Society dinner] menus, 1885-1888; notebook kept by Smith recording outgoings on his 'Cash Account', 1897-1936; photograph of Smith as a young man and another of his house in Rome; material relating to his being appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1926.

There are also letters and postcards from Arthur Hamilton Smith to his wife Gertrude (59 items, 1897-1922), sister Daisy /Margaret (1881), and mother Susan (74 items, 1881-1912); these often include accounts of his work and travels, and sometimes sketches; occasional items are written in shorthand. Letters to Susan Smith from schoolmasters about her son Arthur (1872, 1879) and his reports from Winchester College (1874-1877), Herbert Kitchener about her son Charlie (1883?), and letters from Gertrude and Blomfield Jackson written on Gertrude's engagement to Arthur (1897); letters to Gertrude on her engagement from Margaret Smith (1897), and on the death of her husband (1941).

Fifteen letters to Elizabeth Hamilton Smith from her parents (1903-1932) and one from 'Archie' (1962); this last appears to relate to a letter of the same date about the Shell Periphery Camera sent to A[rchibald?] Parker Smith and asking for further details about Arthur Hamilton Smith's patent 'Cyclograph', regarding which there is further correspondence of Elizabeth Hamilton Smith, as well as the original award of the patent in 1895.

Legal and financial material, much to do with family trusts and property (c 15 items, 1896-1921), as well as printed material such as the obituary of Arthur Hamilton Smith by F. G. Kenyon in the "Proceedings of the British Academy", 1941.

With additional note from Henry Babington Smith to Archibald Smith.

91: 17 Feb [1895], containing sketch of ice skaters.
92: 18 Feb [1895], enclosing letter from Wilmot Babington Parker Smith to Susan Emma Smith, 18 Feb 1895.

All written with the assistance of/by their mother Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith except for letters 11 (19 Nov 1910) and 21 (26 Jul 1911), which are in the hand of their father Henry Babington Smith. Flowers enclosed with letter 15 (27 May 1911).

With additional note from Henry Babington Smith to Susan Emma Smith.

84-94 and 97-105: written by or with the assistance of Lady Elisabeth Babington Smith
95: 26 Apr 1911, in the hand of Henry Babington Smith, with additional note from him to his mother Susan.
96: 4 Aug 1911, in the hand of Lady Rachel Catherine Bruce
100: c Apr 1912, containing drawing
105: 5 Mar 1913, enclosing dwarf daffodil.

In the hand of her mother, Hon. Katherine Elizabeth Bruce.

Extract, quoting from letter from J. A. Chamberlain to J. P. Smith. Copy in the hand of Susan Emma Smith.

With the assistance of/by their mother Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith.

78: 30 Apr 1891, telegram.
79: 19 Mar 1895, typescript.

Incomplete: end missing.

70 (13 Oct 1905) and 71 (8 Nov 1906) written with the assistance of/by his mother Lady Elisabeth Mary Babington Smith.

Letters of Jean Babington, née Macaulay, to her daughter Mary Parker. Also letters and notes enclosed with these: copy of letter from Mary Parker to her children's nurse Charlotte Gouch; letters from Anne Tibbs and Lydia Rose to Mary; letter from Susan Darroch, née Parker, to Jean Babington; letter from Eliza (?) Ravenscroft to Anne Tibbs; letter from Susan Emma Parker to her father James Parker.

Letters from Jean Babington to Susan Darroch and Mary Ellen Rose, née Parker. Letters from Sophia C. Marriott, Harriot Palmer (née Pepperell) and James Stephen to Jean Babington.