Taylor had no official academic status, no department and no secretary. As a result, the remaining manuscripts and papers, other than the published scientific papers, are variable in content and time. There is a large section of personal material, some of it relating to George Boole (Taylor's maternal grandfather) and his family. Few notes and data survive, though there is the notebook used by Taylor on his expedition in the "Scotia" in 1913; the collection also includes some unpublished reports and addresses, and a good deal of scientific correspondence, some of it assembled from several sources by George Keith Batchelor (Taylor's editor and memorialist) for this collection. Taylor's mother, Margaret, was the second of the five daughters of George Boole, and Taylor both inherited and contributed to a strong sense of family; there are various documents, mementoes and photographs of both the Boole and the Taylor families, and a considerable personal correspondence with family and friends. Sixty letters, written between 1951 and 1973 to members of the family of Bess Rosenthal, were added to the collection.