When Neil Smith retired in 2006, he left thousands upon thousands of articles in his room. While there was no way for us to keep all of them, there was simply too much good stuff in there to let it all be thrown away, so a few PhD students and postdocs have been gradually sifting through the papers ever since. Now, 600 or so of Neil's papers (and a few of Misi Brody's) have found their way to the PhD room in 21 Gordon Square, lovingly alphabetised in the filing cabinet, for us to use as we see fit...
The papers we have kept are quite an idiosyncratic collection. Apart rom personal taste, the basic rule was, the more it looked like we would have a hard time finding another copy, the more likely we were to keep it. This means, for example, that typewritten manuscripts or offprints from journals whose names I can't even pronounce were more likely to be kept than recent offprints from NLLT, strange though it may seem. The justification for this was that we're unlikely to miss anything really hard to find this way, and we keep a lot of good stuff too. We've ended up with dozens of dissertations from MIT and other US universities, technical reports from all over the place and countless handouts which may or may not still make sense, along with offprints or prepublication copies of many well-known articles and monographs.
If you find something you like, feel free to borrow it. No-one's going to check up on the contents of the cabinet, of course, but it would be nice to think it would stay useable for a good while, so please return whatever you borrow.
In the fullness of time (probably once I've got the small matter of a PhD out of the way...) I'm going to try and make a proper searchable directory for these papers, and hopefully get it installed somewhere a bit better than my homepage, but for now, here's a pdf and an Excel spreadsheet showing what's in the box...