Contains papers relating to Saville's work as an employee and retired employee of the University of Hull. Contains references to: general university business and adminsitration; salaries in 1949; Lecturing and Administrative Staff Association; merit awards; student discipline; personnel issues including pensions; application for readership position; MA in Victorian Studies; lecturing staff planning for future of university Jan 1956; VC's Staff-Student Committee; Hull University Development Appeal 1963; typing pool; colleagues; University Grants Committee; convocations; retirement; mss volume purchased by the Department of Botany in 1958.

Papers comprise: correspondence; circulars; reports; memoranda. Correspondents include: D.J. Farrington as personnel officer; finance officer; pensions secretary; Ministry of Defence; J.S.G. Wilson; registrar; Ian R.M. Mowat; William Taylor; John Coates; Rod Ambler; Barbara English; David Neave; Mike Brown; Doug Reid; David Pennie; David Curtis; Janet Blackman; Margaret Espinasse; N.F. Robertson; vice chancellor; Tom Kemp; Maeve Brennan; Christopher Hill; Douglas Reid.