Box 1: unsorted and various notes, programmes, correspondence on the subject of yachting.

Box 2: correspondence between 1949 and 1959 on the swallow class type yacht; correspondence on swallow class rules; extracts from articles on the swallow class type yacht; file on the SWIFT, a swallow class yacht, includes correspodence circa 1958 to 1979 on costings for material for the yacht; correspondence re: Anglo-Swiss match, 1939-1946 and 1952 etc, concerns organisation of the races; file of correspondence, 1947, re: swallow class yachts; includes black and white photographs; 1951-

Box 3: Sailing club handbooks, newsletters and programmes.

Box 4: two logs of Morris's racing record for 1931-1934 (mostly 1933); volume of the record of the CLOVER, international fourteen foot dinghy (designed and built by Morgan Giles in 1930) log covers the period 1930-1954; record of the CLOVER between 1930 and 1932.

Box 5: volume listing Morris's victories, certificates and accomplishments as a yachtsman, 1913-1930, includes loose certificates; volume of lists of debtors and creditors, 1957-1966, and notes on yachtsman and yachts, 1951-1954; handwritten account of 'The Story of the Swallow Class' written by Stewart; notebook on yachts: includes several yacht names and notes about them.

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Administrative / biographical background
Morris began sailing as a boy and when he was an undergratuate at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was on the University team against Oxford for three years. Morris started as a reserve to the Olympic tram in 1936 but in 1948 he took the Olympic title in the Swallow class with David Bond as his partner. He was on the Olympic team in 1952. He scored his first victory in the Prince of Wales Cup in 1932, his record 12th and last win coming thirty-three years later. Morris claimed countless other victories in major events, including wins in European championships. He was British champion in both the Swallow and Firefly classes. He was a member of several yachting clubs including the Royal Yacht Squadron. He was awarded the OBE in 1944 for his role in the Normandy landing, serving as a commander in the RNVR.