The collection comprises papers of Bishop Lewis Bostock Radford, 4th Anglican Bishop of Goulburn (1915-1933), collected by his son Paul Radford for his publication "A scholar in a new land : a biography of Lewis Bostock Radford" (1979). The papers relate to the Bishop's life as an Anglican priest and episcopacy and include handwritten and printed sermons, articles, pamphlets, service notebooks (handwritten in English, Greek and Latin), correspondence, photographs of Goulburn, Bishopthorpe Manor and the Radford family, sketchbooks and a visitors' book.