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•Correspondence with J. Brodie (1795-1811), T.C. Hope (1784-1785), and A. Menzies (1819) - all appears to be copies of correspondence held at the Linnean Society
•Personal files and papers and his obituary •Kew correspondence with Sir Arthur W. Hill (1921-1940) and A.D. Cotton (1921-1945) •Correspondence with Colonel Stephenson Clarke, Borde Hill (1922-1939) •Swedish correspondence (1923-1951), including correspondence with HRH the King of Sweden (1937-1951), Dr Harry Smith, Upsala (1925-1957) and Dr H.G. Bruun (1928-1939) •Correspondence regarding Rhododendrons (Lord Headfort - Taylour, Geoffrey Thomas) •Directors correspondence (1929-1936) •2 framed photographs of W.W. Smith and an envelope of photographs possibly belonging to him •Reprint of The Bannatyne or Bute Mazer and its carved bone cover by J.H. Stevenson published in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, v.LXV, 1930-31 including a Botanical Note on the Plant represented in the carving on the Mazer Lid by Professor William Wright Smith, King's Botanist in Scotland, pp38-39.
•Printed booklet of Lecture; Edinburgh School of Rural Economy 1895 – 1896, “Forest Botany” •Re-print of “Geographical Distribution of Vegetation in Yorkshire; Part 2 – Harrogate & Skipton District”. From “The Geographical Journal, August, 1903”
•4 solander boxes of artwork produced between c.1915 and c.1920, mainly Primulas and Rhododendrons •Extract from Snelling’s obituary by the Earl of Morton, taken from the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, 1973, vol.98, p.139, mounted onto card.
5 boxes of slides, totalling around 400 slides, and an envelope "Botanic Garden Notes" (now in Box 1) of news clippings relating to the opening of the Glasshouses.
