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101 letters sent to Henry Montagu Butler as Master in response to his requests for portraits of judges to decorate the Judges' Chambers. The letters are from the subjects themselves or from their descendants, and the portraits referred to tend to be photographs and engravings. A seven page description of the project by Butler dated 15 July 1898 appears at the front with a list of subjects and donors up to that time, and naming George Denman as being of particular assistance in sourcing the portraits. A number of the letters are between Denman and Butler, and four of the letters are from the artist George Richmond.

Sends the book in remembrance of Archie Don's happy days at Trinity and his friendship with Gordon Butler. Treasures the memory of H. M. Butler and the verse he presented her the previous autumn.

Three letters from H. M. Butler, two from John Venn, and one from William Aldis Wright.
H. M. Butler asks if Darwin would consider contributing to the purchase price of the original MS of "Poems by Two Brothers" by Charles and Alfred Tennyson in a letter dated 13 Dec. 1893. Darwin is asked to contribute to the purchase of something else [a medal?] in May 1896 and is thanked later that week, with the suggestion that his great-great grandson donate Darwin's medal to the Library. A letter from William Aldis Wright (9 May 1896) suggests that Darwin's emissary wait until he is a Fellow to cycle down the Avenue at Trinity.

Two letters from John Venn refer to the provenance of astrolabes and one letter dated 25 Dec. 1895 refers to something that happened the week before that has made him feel he is in a nightmare.

Two letters.

Two letters from A. C. Benson to the Master of Trinity H. M. Butler in 1907 describing his acquisition of the portrait which had been very dirty, with the appearance of having been used as a target by children and offering it to Trinity, with another letter from S. Taylor to Canon Parry in 1925 concerning the portrait's similarities to Stephen Poyntz Denning's work.

Concerning an early copy of a portrait of Mary Tudor by Antonio Moro [Antonis Mor] that he wishes to present to the College.

Letter from V. H. Stanton to Trinity Master H. M. Butler forwarding a letter from E. F. Russell offering the painting to Trinity from the Office of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, with further correspondence from Russell as well as the Secretary of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa Duncan Travers. Six letters total, with a slip of paper identifying Smythies, and an envelope addressed to Butler.

Concerning the Julius Charles Hare bust.