Detail of T. E. Lawrence's comments on his own thesis
Here are online catalogues of some of the privately deposited records held at Jesus College. Because putting these items online is a gradual process, they cover only a small portion of our complete holdings.
In particular, some of the more significant collections of personal papers which have not yet been put online include:
- Papers of the Victorian historian J. R. Green (1837-83)
- Papers of Francis Mansell (Principal 1620-1, 1630-48 and 1660-1)
- Papers of Sir Leoline Jenkins (Principal 1661-73)
- Papers of Thomas Pardo (Principal 1727-63)
Papers of Former Principals:
- Papers of Joseph Hoare (Principal 1768-1802)
- Papers of Henry Foulkes (Principal 1817-57)
- Papers of Sir John Rhys (Principal 1895-1915)
- Papers of Sir Frederick Woolf Ogilvie (Principal 1944-9)
- Papers of John Traill Christie (Principal 1950-67)
Papers from or about Old Members or other people connected with the College (arranged alphabetically):
- Manuscript of D. Phil. thesis of Anatole Abragam (matr. 1948; Hon. Fellow 1976)
- Chemistry notebooks of Francis Banbury (matr. 1927) and Ernest Boller (matr. 1926)
- Pages from a photograph album concerning William Barratt (matr. 1882), 1930s
- Photograph from Kenneth Bartholomew (matr. 1940) of the Jesus/St. Catherine's Cricket Team, 1942
- Letter of recommendation from Sir John Rhys for Michael Billings (matr. 1896)
- Memoirs of Peter Bleackley (matr. 1933)
- Scientific Papers of Muriel Chapman (nee Holmes), 1920s-1930s
- Ephemera of E. Ivor Clarry (matr. 1938)
- Reminiscences of Iolo Davies (matr. 1938)
- Photographs from Frank Dickinson (matr. 1930)
- Notes on English Constitutional History by William Edwards (matr. 1892)
- Composite Photograph of the Jesus College Rugby XV, 1919/20, from D. M. Evans (matr. 1912)
- Undergraduate Notebooks of John Cadwallader Evans (matr. 1872)
- Ephemera of Donald Godden (matr. 1936)
- Ephemera of Richard Cerdin Griffiths (matr. 1934)
- Ephemera of Gilbert Vaughan Harries (matr. 1932)
- Notes of Law Lectures given by Alfred Hazel (matr. 1888; F. 1898-1925; Pr. 1925-44)
- Reminiscences of Paul Hubbell (matr. 1914)
- Photograph including Joseph Huckwell (matr. 1878)
- Photograph Album of Frederick Hughes (matr. 1913)
- Memoirs of Ifor Elwyn Hughes (matr. 1926)
- Ephemera and Photographs of Gwynne Ivor Jones (matr. 1932)
- Papers of and concerning Hugh Jones (matr. 1832; Fellow 1839-45) and Edward Hugh-Jones (matr. 1879)
- Diaries of John Jones of Dolgellau (matr. 1792)
- Ephemera from Edward Arthur Henry Key (matr. 1945)
- Commonplace Book of John Langley (matr. 1683)
- Papers concerning T. E. Lawrence (matr. 1907)
- Papers of Frederick Charles Lay (matr. 1918), mainly on the Quatercentenary of Jesus College
- Ephemera of Denis Lester (matr. 1924)
- Memoirs of Thomas Price Merfyn Lewis (matr. 1922)
- Photographs of an Oxford Mock Funeral from Thomas Merion Lloyd (matr. 1919)
- Ephemera of Bryan Ostler (matr. 1930)
- Tutorial Essays and Collections in English of William Phillips (matr. 1920)
- Journal of Alfred Frederick Pollard (matr. 1887), 1886-8
- Musical Ephemera of William Dyfri Rees (matr. 1934)
- Copies of letters from Sir John Rhys (matr. 1865; Fellow 1877-95; Principal 1895-1915)
- Photographs from Llewelyn Lewis Rowland (matr. 1931)
- Ephemera of James Douglas Smith (matr. 1948), mainly on music
- Photographs from Arthur Spencer Thomas (later Vaughan-Thomas) (matr. 1927)
- Welsh Religious Engraving presented to Thomas Thomas (matr. 1824; Fellow 1835-59), 1838
- Photographs from Kenneth Charles Thompson (matr. 1922)
- Papers of John Dugdale Turner (matr. 1933)
- Photograph album and ephemera of Frederick Wilkins (matr. 1901)
- Papers of John Williams (matr. 1756; Fellow 1762-70) and family
- Volume of translations from Russian and Czech, possibly by John Evan Williams (matr. 1853)
- Papers relating to Harold Wilson (matr. 1934)
- Miscellaneous Memories of Jesus College, 1920s-1940s
Papers from unknown sources (arranged chronologically):
- Volume of Notes on the Duties of a Justice of the Peace, given by Thomas Pardo (Principal 1727-63) to a Jesus Undergraduate, 1751
- A Summary of John Spencer's Discourse Concerning Prodigies, 18th cent.
- Notebook of Arithmetic Exercises, 1752
- Miscellaneous Theological notes, 18th cent.
- Three notebooks of notes on Science Lectures, mid-18th century
- Miscellaneous examples of undergraduate work from the 18th and early 19th centuries
- Stereoscopic photograph of the Chapel, late 19th century
- Photograph of a Jesus College Bump Supper, 1903
- Jesus College Freshmen's Photograph of 1912
- Letters and Photographs sent from the Families of Jesus College Members killed in the First World War
- College photographs from unknown donor, 1919-23
- Photograph of group of Jesus College students, 1932
- Handwritten Dinner Menus, 1933
- Jesus College Mathematics Entrance Examination, 1937
- Play programme for the Caroline Players, 1953
- Student Musical Ephemera, 1964-5
Papers from people or institutions unrelated to Jesus College (arranged chronologically):
- Latin Poem, 1628
- Medical "Diary", 1661-1662
- Letter from John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, to the Duke of Ormond, c. 1677-85
- MS Copy of Anti-Lutheran Tract by Thomas Deane, Fellow of University College, published 1688
- Copy of the Statutes of Ruthin School, 1699
- Two incomplete Latin Poems, early 18th century
- Letter from Thomas Hearne, 1728/9
- Papers of Browne Willis (1682-1760), Antiquarian
- Commonplace Book of William Le Marchant (matr. Pembroke College 1699) with reference to Jesus College
- Minute Books of the Denbighshire and Flintshire society (later the North Wales Society), Oxford, 1773-1826
- Papers on the Revisions made to the 1840 Edition of the Welsh Book of Common Prayer
- Notes of Andrew Clark on the early Buttery Books of Jesus College
- Papers of Thomas Hudson-Williams (1873-1961)
- A Welsh translation of Macbeth, sometimes attributed to Hudson-Williams
- List of Jesus Matriculands, 1572-1714, compiled by Joseph Foster, 1895
- Notes on Memorials to the Family of Principal Griffith Lloyd in the Church of St. Michael at the Northgate, 1895 and 1962
- Letter from Frederick Rolfe ("Baron Corvo"), 1905
- Papers on Robert Clive (“Clive of India”) assembled by Sir George Forrest, c. 1916-18
- Postcard sent during a conference held at Jesus College, 1920
- Two Gladstone Memorial Prize Essays, 1939 and 1954
- Papers of Bernard Quail, 1943-52
- Letter from Mahatma Gandhi, 1947
- Papers on the Bible Garden, Bangor, 1959-84