Comprises:
- typescript of article 'Millais and his public, 1850-60', with annotations;
- Cambridge exam papers, degree certificate and related correspondence;
- 7 published copies of Broadsheet, student arts review newsletter edited by RP;
- Letters from various correspondents kept by RP, many involving his work at the V&A - also includes memorial orders of service for friends;
- Cuttings of RP's letters published in The Times and other periodicals;
- passports, photographs of Albert and Carrie Parkinson (RP's parents), Albert Parkinson's war medal, RP's school reports, baptism record;
- death certificate, posthumous tributes to RP (texts of eulogy and other tributes at his funeral, published obit).