Documents from this file include: application form; letter of communication of the award of the Rome Scholarship; application for the renewal of scholarship for a second year; second year scholarship renewal letter; application for the renewal of scholarship for a third year; letter of denial of the scholarship renewal; financial arrangements; correspondence between Ayres and Shaw; letter from C. G. Hardie to Ayres concerning the delivery of his work; excerpt from R. B. S. annual report (1958); correspondence between Ayres and Sturch; newspaper cutting (1965); letters from James Ayres (Ayres' son) to James (1985-86)