The John Johnson manuscripts consist of: Estate papers, domestic accounts and financial records, 1667-1902 Papers concerning the booktrade, 17th-20th cent. Miscellaneous, 16th-20th cent. Personal papers of Johson, including correspondence relating to the collection, 17th-20th cent.

Correspondence and papers of Strickland Gibson, consisting of: General correspondence, mainly relating to the Bodleian, 1897-1946 Correspondence and papers of Gibson and John Johnson concerning a proposal to make the Arts End of the Old Bodleian into a reference library, 1937-9 Letters to Gibson on the completion of fifty years' service in the Bodleian, 1941 …