Certificate of birth at Whalley, Lancashire, 15 September 1875. Copy dated 26 July 1900, given at the General Register Office, Somerset House, London.

Letter from John Kilner ('Jack' Kilner), brother of Catherine Margaret Kilner, Cyril Norwood's future wife.

Letter from Elizabeth Emma Norwood, neé Sparks, Cyril Norwood’s mother, regarding Norwood’s engagement to Catherine Margaret Kilner.

Letter from Olga Priestley, sent from India, regarding Norwood’s engagement to Catherine M. Kilner.

Miscellaneous documents from 1875 - 1899, mostly correspondence received by Cyril Norwood.

Letter from Reverend William Baker, Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School, from Marienbad. Baker is writing to offer his congratulations to Norwood for his First class degree.

Miscellaneous documents from 1875 - 1899, mostly correspondence received by Cyril Norwood.

Notice of First place in the Home Civil Service Examination of August 1899, from the Civil Service Commission, Westminster. With envelope.

Letter from Reverend William Baker, Headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School.

Letter from Chas Waters, from Merchant Taylors' School, with envelope. Waters writes to offer congratulations on First place in Civil Service examination.

The Civil Service Competition of 1899 article in Oxford Magazine. Includes details of placings, in which Norwood came first.

Poems in draft form by Cyril Norwood. Dates added later in pencil, from 1892 to 1899. Some remain undated. One is intended for ‘Kitty K.’, Catherine Margaret Kilner, and another is written on the back of a printed circular advertising a ‘High Class School for Boys’ at Wanstead, Principal Rev. S. Norwood, B.A.

Essay titled ‘Art and the Critics’, 9 pages.

Scrapbook of 49 leaves. It includes engraved portraits of eminent Church of England dignitaries and their cathedrals or churches. Appears to have been made with illustrations cut out from a publication of the 1870s. Possibly the property of Norwood's father, Samuel.

Essay notebook used for classics and other subjects.

Essay notebook, inscribed ‘C. Norwood, St. John’s College’. The notebook seems to have been reused throughout Cyril's studies. It includes notes in an earlier schoolboy hand, and an adult hand, on Classics subjects. There are two distinct styles of adult hand.

Newscutting of Class List, in ‘Literis Humanioribus’, Oxford University.

Letters from Cyril Norwood's parents, Mrs Elizabeth Norwood and the Reverend Samuel Norwood, addressed from 4, Millfield Villas, Spratt Hall Road, Wanstead, to Cyril Norwood at St. John's College, Oxford. Five letters are from Mrs Elizabeth Norwood, Cyril's mother, signed "Your loving Mother, Bessie Norwood", and two are from Reverend Samuel Norwood, Cyril's father, signed "Yours ever afftly, Sam Norwood". These letters were kept amongst Norwood's Papers in the small decorative box.