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The additional manuscript series are artificial groups containing manuscripts from various sources. Most of the contents are single items or small groups, but they include some fairly large personal archives, either arranged in sequence or scattered in various places. See the overview of the collections (https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/overview).

Photocopy of a letter dated 8 Jan. 1915

Printed menu for Newton 350th Anniversary Dinner, held on 3 July 1992. Newcutting, The Times "Saturday Review", 4 July 1992: new poem, Newton Enigmas, by Ben Okri, commissioned by the Master of Trinity, Sir Michael Atiyah, to mark the anniversary and performed for the first time by the Trinity College choir at the 3 July dinner in a setting by Richard Marlow, director of Music at Trinity.

Two typescript research papers.

The pamphlet for 1980 encloses a letter from the Chaplain, Maurice Couve de Murville, to Miss [Rosemary] Graham at Trinity College library, saying he is sending the newsletter as it 'contains notices of several Trinity men' and thanking her for her help; a copy letter from Miss Graham in reply, 27 Oct 1980, asks if the Library could have last year's too and be added to the subscription list. The pamphlet for 1979 therefore encloses another letter from Couve de Murville, 29 Oct 1980.

Reproduction of Robert Smythson's plan of Great Court, c 1609, with a reproduction of plan of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and Theobald's House (Hertforshire) below.

List of Housman MSS in Adversaria volumes at Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

Five typescript pages concerning James' catalogue of the western manuscripts in the Wren Library, with a page of related endnotes.

Photocopy of a research paper.

MS poem, for Mr and Mrs Gaskell.

Photostat of verses contributed by Munby in the bound MS of the Gurgoyle Stories for 1859 and 1860, with the title page "The Gurgoyle Stories read at the Supper at Coates' Chambers at Gray's Inn Square, the XIV of Jan. mdccclx".

A letter of thanks on being elected an Honorary Fellow.

Later typescript draft of a lecture given from notes.

Xerox copy of the MS commonplace book kept while Hare was a student at Cambridge.

Xerox copy of a MS copy possibly made by Hare's sister-in-law Lucilla Powell. The original is a semi-epistolary travel diary recounting a trip to Italy in 1832-1833 in the company of his friends Walter Savage Landor and Thomas Worsley.

Wittgenstein thanks Cartwright for the paper on 'Number' and asks if he may discuss it in the next class. Letter accompanied by a letter to Trinity Librarian Philip Gaskell with Cartwright's memory of the class 'What is Three?', her impressions of Wittgenstein and being invited to have tea with Wittgenstein and Howard Ursell. A postcard from Cartwright reports on her further attempts to date the letter.

List of Housman MSS in Adversaria volumes at Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

Bound volume with cover title, "List of Writers of Letters to Henry Jackson (1839-1921), Fellow of Trinity College (1964-1921)", featuring an alphabetic list of correspondents with summaries of the letters and descriptions of the correspondents in Add.MS.c.24-47, with a letter tucked into a pocket in the back written by Henry Jackson 19 Oct. 1858, his first letter home from Trinity College, a sketch of the cloisters in Nevile's Court by Christopher Cornford, and a poem by Frances Cornford entitled 'Gone Down', three photographs of Jackson, his room in Nevile's Court, and his grave. Also pasted in are a printed list of books dedicated to Henry Jackson and a printed flysheet relating to reforms at the university.

Typescript draft, corrected, of a Trinity lecture given 18 Oct. 1971.

Copy in an unidentified hand.

Three undated, unsigned essays, titled "Free Will. 'Equilibrium ad utrumque'", "Does V. Cousin's criticism of Locke's philosophy involve misconception and unfairness?", and "Is the French novel literature the 1st in Europe?" and a notebook of Greek exercises, all possibly in the hand of [Arthur Henry Hallam?].
Typescript and MS copies of 11 letters from Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam to his cousin Jane and her husband William Brookfield. The original letters are dated 1 Sept. 1846 to 7 Oct. 1850, and the copies, some of them incomplete, appear to be 20th century.

Photocopies of letters by and relating to Lord Byron, particularly his relationship with Elizabeth Pigot, and her later contact with John Murray and others, with copies of Byron's will, poem fragments, and some printed material.

Correspondence between John Wordie, Robert Robson, and John Burnaby concerning information about Tisdall at Trinity College in the archives and memories of Fellows who knew Tisdall or were at Gallipoli with him. With letters between Tressilian Nicholas and John Wordie concerning the invitation to Nicholas to represent the College at the ceremony on board the HMS President commemorating the Victoria Cross award to Tisdall, with Nicholas' memories of Gallipoli, and of Wordie's father Sir James Mann Wordie. Accompanied by the invitation, the programme for the ceremony, the HMS President's typed schedule for the event, a news clipping relating to the ceremony and another about the speaker Rear-Admiral Godfrey Place, and an exchange of letters between Nicholas and John Bradfield about the ceremony.

Two copies of the corrected typescript of Adrian's birthday speech made in the Combination Room before the Trinity College Fellows headed November 30th, 1969 with a MS note at top, 'Combination Room, Sunday 19th Nov.', sharing his memories of Trinity from 1908 to shortly before the onset of World War II. Accompanied by a card to Philip Gaskell asking for the return of the original.