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Biographical material has been arranged as follows:
1-3: Obituaries, memorials and tributes (1998-2000)
4-5: Curricula vitae and list of publications (c 1975-1988)
6-18: Autobiographical information (1963-1988)
19-22: Hodgkin's 'Personal' File, including University correspondence, finances, donations etc (1936-1981)
23: Newspaper cuttings, mostly relating to the Mastership of Trinity College, 1984 (1970-1992)
24-29: Requests for autographs (1963-1986)
30-38: Childhood memorabilia (1914-1923)
39-69: Education
70-103: Career, Honours and Awards
104-168: Family: The great bulk of this material is correspondence from Hodgkin, and later Hodgkin's family, to his mother (106-164).
169-173: Personal Correspondence: Includes correspondence with Charles M. Fletcher, G. W. Edwards and R. van der Hulst.
174-187: Occasions and Functions: See also E: 'Lectures and Functions'.
188-193: Colleagues
194-202: Photographs

Material relating to the original and revised editions of Gaskell's A New Introduction to Bibliography (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, rev. ed. 1974): early notes, later notes, revision, correspondence with the Oxford University Press, and original materials for illustrations.

Portraits consists of individual and small collections of prints and photographs depicting Trinity members as well as other individuals eminent in their fields. Albums that are a combination of portraits and views may be found in Add. V.M. C.

Copy of Bell's birth certificate, two address books, two passports (dated 1939 and 1949).

Includes correspondence relating to Trinity College (often responses to invitations to give the Clark Lecture), and a 1923 film of Thomson being 'welcomed by Bell Telephone Engineers and escorted through their laboratories at the Western Electric Co., New York' (A/13).

This section contains material gathered after Adams's death, primarily by I. M. James while working on the memoir for the Royal Society published in 1990. This includes letters from former colleagues and students with descriptions and stories about Adams, and includes a photograph taken of Adams after climbing on top of a sculpture at midnight and the eulogy delivered in Trinity College Chapel by J. P. May at the memorial service in April 1993.

This series consists of correspondence, diaries, writings, publications, drawings, and memorabilia related to Otto Frisch and to Lise Meitner. The material is arranged in five subseries: Biographical and autobiographical papers (A.1-7), Diaries and notebooks (A.8-32), Career and memorabilia (A.33-106), Family correspondence and papers (A.107-225), and Supplemental Papers given by Ulla Frisch (A.226-251). The Lise Meitner papers may be found in the penultimate group, A.134-211. For photographs, slides, tape-recordings, etc. of Frisch, his family and colleagues, see Series G.

A.1-7 includes material related to his autobiography What little I remember, as well as obituary tributes about Frisch.

Frisch made little distinction between the types of journal found at A.8 -32, Diaries and notebooks. In earlier years, he tended to use 'notebooks' in which he would draw up tables of days and weeks on some of the pages, thus creating a 'diary'. Later on, he used 'diaries' and made them serve for wider purposes than the usual day-to-day record. From about 1947 he often chose the 'Lefax' system which enabled him to keep several years' notes in one binder; see A.24-31, or, for less organised examples, A.12, A.13, A.22. The contents of all these documents are similar, though their proportions vary. They include experimental results, ideas for research, journals of visits, notes of conferences, meetings and lectures, personal jottings, memos and addresses. In his address books Frisch would use the thumb-index to suit his own purposes: thus 'I' may turn up 'Ideas', 'M' lead to `Money', etc. These books therefore supplement the scientific and technical material found in Series B as well as documenting Frisch's personal life. The material is presented as a chronological sequence so far as this is ascertainable and Frisch's methods of work allow.

In A.33-106 Career and memorabilia, A.86-90 relate to music, though it should be noted that there are many other references elsewhere, e.g., A.56, A.72, A.95 and in the general correspondence. A.91 to A.94 are indexed folders of letters of condolence from colleagues, relatives or friends containing reminiscences or information.

Most of A.107-225 Family correspondence and papers consists of correspondence, but there are other biographical items included. Many of the letters employ nicknames and diminutives as mode of address or signature; Lise Meitner normally signed herself 'T.L.' (= Tante Lise) when writing to Frisch. For convenience, the material has been divided among the Frisch, Meitner and Blau (Frisch's wife) families, and presented by alphabetical order of Christian name in order to avoid confusion arising from the married names of the female members. The letters from Frisch's father and mother (A.109-120) are almost all joint communications, sometimes also incorporating greetings and messages from other relations. The Lise Meitner papers, A.134-211, are further arranged as Biographical and personal papers (A.134-154), Notes and drafts (A.155-176), and Correspondence (A.177-211) The Notes and drafts, are all later works, dating from Lise Meitner's postwar periods in Sweden and Cambridge, with the exception of the brief items in A.155-157. The papers at A.219-225 are those related to the Blau family. Frisch married Ursula (Ulla) Blau in 1951 and they had two children. The letters they exchanged (A.221-225) contain information about conferences, scientific colleagues, and research projects as well as personal and family news.

The supplemental papers given by Ulla Frisch after the main group of papers, A.226-251, include Frisch's caricature drawings of scientific colleagues and others at committee meetings, conferences, and social occasions, and include those made at Los Alamos (A.233-249).

This series contains personal materials belonging to Sir Anthony. These items include personal photographs, gifts and mementos, newspaper cuttings, taped lectures and interviews, professional and academic certificates, and other items commemorating the honours Sir Anthony received throughout his career.

The material in this section is arranged as follows:

A/1-A/4: Obituary notices, 1940-1942

A/5-A/31: Biographical notes, 1909-1958. Within this group, A/23-A/31 comprises correspondence and papers found together. The bulk of this material was originally assembled by Lord Rayleigh whilst writing his biography The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson O.M. sometime master of Trinity College, Cambridge, published in 1942 by Cambridge University Press. There is also a little material added later by the family.

A/32-A/71A: Career, honours, and awards, 1874-1940. This section also includes letters of congratulation to Thomson's mother Emma on his early successes, and letters of condolence to his wife on his death.

A/72-A/103: Certificates, 1900-1937. A number of these awards are also documented at A/32-71.

A/104-A/109: 'J.J. on Education', 1918-1940 (material found together, and thus entitled, by Lord Rayleigh in the course of writing his biography of Thomson). See A/120 for press cuttings re Thomson's interest in Education.

A/110-A/143: Press cuttings, 1888-1956. Arranged in chronological order, and including press cuttings re Thomson's lectures and publications.

A/144: Diary of J. J. Thomson

A/145-152: Financial papers, 1878-1938

A/153-160: Photographs, 1909-1932

A/161-165: Invitations, 1885-1936. Social invitations received by Thomson. See also C/81-C/130

A/166-176: Miscellaneous, 1878-1956

Scroll sketched out on back in pencil, containing a verse from Tennyson's Two Voices: 'He seems to hear a Heavenly Friend / And through thick veils to apprehend / A labour working to an end', and the date, 'Christmas 1894'.

A/1-A/77: biographical and personal material (1892-1996), arranged as follows: A/1-A/4, memoirs and obituaries; A/5-A/16, biographical and historical accounts and information; A/17, bibliographies; A/18-A/77, diaries.

A/78-A/116: material (1919-1945) relating to Synge's childhood and schooldays. A/78-A/82 is general material (1922-1926), A/83-A/100 relate to his time at Old Hill Preparatory School, and date from 1919-1945, and A/101-A/116 relate to Synge's time at Winchester College, and date from 1927-1933. A/117-A/153: material (1931-136) relating to Synge's time as an undergraduate, including manuscript and typescript notes on lectures and practical work, bound volumes of duplicated typescript work sheets for practical work (A/139-A/143), examination papers, correspondence etc. A/154-A/211: career, honours, and awards (1936-1992)

A/212-A/354: material relating to Synge's family. In some of the earlier material the family surname is spelled 'Sing' or 'Singe', reflecting its pronunciation. The current spelling seems to have been adopted consistently only after the First World War. Material arranged as follows: A/212-311, Laurence Millington Synge and Katherine Charlotte Synge, née Swan, Synge's parents; A/312-329, Ann Synge (née Stephen), his wife; A/330-335, Jane, Elizabeth, Patrick and Alexander, four of his seven children; A/336-343 Anne Dorothea (Anthea) and Katharine, Synge's sisters; A/344-347 Mary Synge, his paternal grandmother, and Emma Swan, his maternal grandmother; A/348-352; other relatives; A/353-354: miscellaneous family material. A/355-369: personal correspondence of Richard L. M. and Ann Synge (1920s-1991). Many correspondents are identified by first name only, and may include more distant relatives. A/370-377: requests for autographs, (1952-1992).

A/378-428: material related to Richard Synge's personal interests, arranged as follows: A/378-418, Politics. Synge was on the political Left. He was a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s and 1940s. His later political activity concentrated on the peace movement and organisations concerned with human rights; A/419-426, Travel, though the bulk of the material relating to Synge's visits is to be found in section G; A/427, Cairngorm Club; A/428, Volunteers for lonising Radiation (VIR).

A/429-435: material relating to finance and business (1933-1991), including correspondence, accounts and expenses. A/436-432: miscellaneous material. A/443-470: photographs (1918-1991)