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Records consist of:

• annotated transcript of a diary kept by Heigham's maternal grandfather, William Warwick Buckland, fellow of Gonville and Caius College, to record a journey to South Africa in 1901.
• photocopies of Heigham pedigree, highlighting members of Gonville and Caius College
• rules of the Gonville Loungers with note on the club's history
• signed menu cards for the Law Club, the Shakespeare Society, the May Ball Stewards' Dinner, the Rugby Football Club and the Boat Club
• photographs, with keys and notes, for the Rugger Boat 1938, Rugby XV 1937-9, May Week Ball 1937-9.

Accounts of the experiences of an Indian student in Cambridge of the 2nd World War period, Hyderabad in the 1930s, his courtship and marriage, Indians working in British companies, and serving in the Navy.

Certificates for degrees and honours received from the Universities of Paris, Harvard, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Louvain, Lyon and Rome; and from the Academy of Sciences, Bonn, and the Academie Royale des Sciences, Belgium. Unidentified academical hood. Letters patent appointing Buckland to the regius chair of civil law in the University of Cambridge.

Files created as Senior Tutor, President and Director of Studies in Law of Gonville and Caius College.

The records consist of minutes and correspondence files generated in the course of Powell's work as a Fellow, predominantly concerned with his interest as Junior Bursar in the design and upkeep of College fabric

The papers consist of files relating to Needham's time as Fellow and Master of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, including letters and minutes of College committees, and issue-related files.

Diaries with inserted correspondence, cards and ephemera, dating from Bates' time at Caius onwards.

Typescript of a diary relating to the period of Mott's mastership of the College.

The papers are divided into three categories:

1. Personal correspondence of Dr John Venn, with immediate family, relations, friends and colleagues [C1-C84]. These include Venn's letters to his son, John Archibald; letters of his wife, Susanna Carnegie, to her husband and son; letters from distinguished Victorian and Edwardian writers and academics including his cousins Leslie Stephen, James Fitzjames Stephen, his close friend A.V. Dicey, John Stuart Mill, Alexander Bain, C.L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), F.Y. Edgeworth, J.A. Froude, Francis Galton, W.S. Jevons, John Maynard Keynes, F.W. Maitland, Karl Pearson, G.J. Romanes, J.W. Selley, Henry Sidgwick and Alfred Wallace. In addition Venn's personal papers include a family sketchbook, photograph album, religious diary of Venn's Aunt Emilia [F1-F3].

2. Papers and notes relating to Venn's work in the logic and theory of probability, including drafts for an article and lecture [D1-D7].

3. Letters, notes, notebooks and printed materials used by Venn for his works on the history and biographical of Gonville and Caius College. These include notes made by Venn himself, but the larger part consists of materials supplied by numerous antiquaries, parish priests, and members of the College of their relations [C85-89, M1-M15, T1-T3, TC/A-TC/YZ).

In German; with enlarged copies of seals.

Appointment for life at annual stipend of £40 per annum.

Including a letter from Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (Painter, 1878-1931) regarding his portrait of Anderson; from Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien (General, 1858-1930) in thanks for hospitality offered to him and his staff; from Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1864-1922) accepting membership of the Combination Room; from Henry Sinclair Horne, Baron Horne of Stirkoake (1861-1929) regarding the service to unveil the College War Memorial; from Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane (1856-1928), John Allsebrook Simon, 1st Viscount Simon (1873-1954) and Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes (1872-1945) regarding meetings or hospitality at Caius.

The papers consist of an autobiographical memoir, family correspondence, a commonplace book, and reviews of Guillemard's published work.

The contents of the College's official archive reflect the major functions of the administration of a resident academic community which have remained largely constant throughout the College's history. Allowing for changes over time in certain job titles and particular responsibilities, the main contents of the Archive of the College are classified as follows:

overall management and policy-making (GOV & MAS)

alumni relations and development work (AD)

student admissions (ADM)

library and archive management (ARC & LIB)

finance, investment and estate management (BUR)

musical and religious provision (PR & CH)

information technology provision (COMP)

building and domestic services (DOM)

tutorial administration (TUT).

Records consist of

• a copy of the Daily Universal Register, 1785

• correspondence regarding Thomas Twining (1776-1861) of the East India Company, referring to John Sanders, 1934

• letters from John Sanders to his family in Worcester regarding his journey to and time in India, c.1797-8

• commonplace book and notebook of John Sanders.