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 of former Fellows:

• Papers of Percy William Dodd (Fellow 1919-31)
• Papers of William Dyke (Fellow 1835-62)
• Papers of Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes (Fellow 1842-54)
• Papers of Ernest Ely Genner (Fellow 1903-26)
• Papers of John Godfrey Griffith (Fellow 1938-80)
• Papers of John Griffiths (Fellow 1863-1916)
• Papers of Frank Llewelyn Harrison (Fellow 1965-70)
• Papers of Sir Ernest Bagnall Poulton (Fellow 1898-1943)
• Papers of Edward Crossley Thompson (Fellow 1945-86)

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)
• Papers of Frank Howard Andrews (matr. 1935) from the Estate of Mrs. Rita Andrews
• 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
• Page from Harper's Weekly, 1863, on the death of Frederick John Holt Beever (matr. 1849; F. 1855-63)
• 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)
• Letter from Thomas Davies (matr. 1817) applying for a teaching position, 1818
• 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)
• Memorabilia of the Very Rev. William Edward Jones (matr. 1919)
• Essay submitted by Paul Kent (matr. 1950) for the Rolleston Memorial Prize
• 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 and Letters of Dylan Morgan (matr. 1964)
• 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
• Essays submitted by Ronald Pugh (matr. 1951) for the Gladstone Memorial Prize and Exhibition
• Rowing Memorabilia of David Ravens (matr. 1948)
• 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):

• 18th Century Manuscript copy of The Description of Wales (1602) by George Owen of Henllys
• 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
• Papers of Sir Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) on Early British History
• 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
• Autograph manuscript, with papers and recording of Peter Maxwell Davies, From Stone to Thorn, 1971

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