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Accompanied by a page from Henry Jackson's commonplace book.

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).

Typescript extracts from David Pinsent's diary in a ring binder describing, among other things, two holidays with Ludwig Wittgenstein in Iceland and Norway. With a short biography of Pinsent written by his sister Lady Adrian at the front.

Letters dated:
8 May 1926
5 June 1926
21 July 1926 [2]
21 Aug. 1926
9 July 1927
24 Oct. 1927
4 Nov. 1927
28 June 1928
2 July 1928
25 July 1928
23 Oct. 1928
12 Mar. 1929
16 Apr. 1929
21 May 1929
7 Aug. 1929
30 Oct. 1929
14 Nov. 1929
20 Jan. 1930
6 Mar. 1930
13 Nov. 1930
15 Dec. 1930
26 Dec. 1930
3 Oct. 1932
20 Mar. 1933
2 June 1933
21 June 1934
12 Nov. 1935
16 Nov. 1935
17 Nov. 1935
25 Nov. 1935

Appeals to his knowledge of Lucretius in writing about the Dynamical Theory of Gases. Also asks, as Junior Moderator, if there are Trinity men who would be able to serve as a poet for Tripos day 7th April.

Written in pencil on inside front cover: 'To be ret'd to (Rev.) C. W. King, Trin. Coll'. Below that, 'Revd W. J. Edlin, Trinity College, Cambridge'. Note on provenance below in the hand of A. F. Scholfield, Librarian.

In ink on front endpaper: 'Uffenbach's Vist to Cambridge 1710 - '; then, in different ink, 'C. W. King, Trin: Coll. Translated 1856.' 'Trimalchio's Feast: 1859' written below but crossed out [and not present in book].

Letter from G. H. Rendall, 29 Dec 1930, tipped in between inside front cover and front endpaper. Dedham House, Dedham, Essex, offering book to the library; sent a copy of his own *Shakespeare Sonnets and Edward de Vere when it came out last March.

Text on page 1 headed 'Zacharias Conrad von Uffenbach's Travels Vol. III - Cambridge'.

Booklet, Handbook for the Clerk Maxwell Centenary Celebration to accompany the celebrations at the University of Cambridge 1 and 2 October, 1931, with a photogravure of Maxwell by Emery Walker Ltd., and images of Glenlair House, a colour top, colour house, spinning coil, apparatus for experiments on the viscosity of gasses, and the outside of the Cavendish Laboratory. Accompanied by a memorial booklet of two photogravures, of Maxwell as a young man with a colour top, and as an older man.

First 3 ff. headed 'Rules for the formation of a Club', including list of founding members: The Duke of St. Albans, Montagu Corry, J. J. Cowell,, G. O. Trevelyan, F. Storr, W. Everett, H. Y. Thompson, E. Willmot.' Signed E[dmund] Willmot, President, May 1960.

The rest of the minutes record dates of meetings and the members' rooms in which each took place; participants, including honorary members and visitors; elections of new members

With letter, written at Trinity 27 Mar. 1905, from Henry Jackson to Walter Morley Fletcher relating to Erastus Corning Pruyn. This is attached to notes by Jackson, comprising a list of members (1 folded sheet), each with a brief biography and date of their admission to Trinity, and a list of visitors (6 single sheets) with the same information. A note of the end of this states: '[W. E.] Currey tells me that the refreshments provided in the early days of the Club were sandwiches and gin sling. In its later days there was an elaborate supper, with two Trinity Hall cups, one Chesterfield, the other usually Madeira. Supper was usually at ten o' clock, after supper whist was resumed'. With envelope originally containing these notes, addressed to the Librarian, Trinity College, and with a label in the hand of A. F. Scholfield, Librarian.

Welcombe, Stratford on Avon. - He is recovering from his illness. There has been great anxiety about Meta [Smith]'s eldest boy [Cyril], who has been 'fearfully ill at Eton with pneumonia'; Meta has been ill too, and now her husband, who has 'very delicate health' has had a dangerous attack of the same illness.

Trinity College stories gathered by McTaggart from Henry Jackson and others, numbered and arranged by date from 1896 to 1922. Following the main grouping of stories are light verses related to College matters by James Clerk Maxwell, J. P. Postgate, F. M. Cornford, Kennedy, and J. K. Stephen, and a cutting of a poem about William Whewell by [Tom Taylor?]; printed obituaries of William Hepworth Thompson, a letter from James Mayo dated 20 Jan. 1905, and two letters from Henry Jackson dated 8-9 Oct. 1879.

The collection is particularly noteworthy for its coverage of Adams's lectures, research and incoming correspondence.
Section A, Biographical, is not substantial. It includes a little material of Adams's relating to his own career including three Bedford School notebooks and his PhD thesis, and material assembled by I M James during the preparation of his Royal Society memoir.
Section B, Research, provides extensive documentation of Adams's research from the 1950s until his death. It is presented in an alphabetical sequence arranged by subject title.
Section C, Lectures, is the largest in the collection. Two subsections comprise Adams's lecture notes and other teaching material for courses given at Manchester and Cambridge, and material from conferences and seminars attended by Adams throughout the world including drafts of Adams's contributions and notes of contributions by others. A third subsection consists of Adams's ms notes found in filing cabinet drawers labelled 'Other people's lectures'. It includes notes taken by Adams as an undergraduate at Cambridge in 1949.
Section D, Publications, is very slight. It includes drafts of a few of Adams's scientific papers.
Section E, Correspondence, contains virtually no extended exchanges of correspondence as very few copies of Adams's own letters survive. There is, however, significant correspondence from colleagues such as M F (later Sir Michael) Atiyah, M G Barratt, P J Hilton, I M James and S MacLane, sometimes extending over a period of twenty or thirty years.