Comprises mostly letters of condolence on the death of Francis W. Hirst.

Correspondents include: Leo Amery, George Kennedy Allen Bell, Frank Bole, Sir Arthur Lyon Bowley, Sir Maurice Bowra, Sir Edward Boyle, [Brooks?], Charles Burlingham, J.K.B. Crawford, H. Charles [Cameur?], W. Robert Davies, J.R. Eccles, Philip Fothergill, Roger Fulford, M. Frankfurter, Y. [Gobler?], Sir Alan Gardiner, Rolf Gardiner, Sir A. Gladstone, Lucy Barbara Hammond, James [Hardey?], Elmer Louis Kayser, Heldring, J.B. Hobman, Kenneth Hobson, Campbell Richard Hone, Virginia Hutton, Sara Ingham, Eleanor Jebb, Arthur Duncan-Jones, J.C. Keeley, Beatrice [Knight?], Jack [Carnes?], Bryan Keith-Lucas, Rex Lambert, Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, Clara Laycock, Sir A. McFadyean, Julius Meinl, Gilbert Murray, Humphrey Paul, Knut Petersson, H. Roper, Salter, Saunders, James T. Shotwell, John Simon, Barbara Hammond, A.F. Thompson, Ronald F. Walter, J.A. Venn, Young, George Peabody Gooch, Charles Kirkwood Ensor, Thomas Edmund Harvey, Sir Ernest John Benn, Herbert Louis Samuel, Bonn, and 'Bety'.

Also includes funeral ephemera, pamphlets from a memorial service in Wadham, and a Latin verse and translation.