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Contains pencilled notes of daily events, with a few poems and school notes.

With a note describing the volume and its provenance ("From the library of Jacob Bronowski").

Letters mostly written at Uckfield, Sussex.

Letters written en route from Scandinavia to Jerusalem and Cairo.

Two fragments: a charade with an explanatory note by Clarke, both mounted on one sheet, with another marked 'Porson's Charade' in an unidentified hand. (Richard Porson was Regius Prof. of Greek at Cambridge 1792-1808.)

Letters to Otter and Mrs Otter, written in Cambridge and elsewhere

First part of incomplete letter, written at House of Commons when Addington's ministry was preparing to revoke the Peace of Amiens; describes speeches by Hawkesbury, Erskine and Pitt.

Clarke's copy, in his own hand, of a poem he sent to Otter on 10 July 1803

Last part of letter describing life in the College Combination Room; mentions a drawing of "the Ceres" and James Stanier Clarke's new edition of The Shipwreck.

Letters to Otter and Mrs Otter, written at Trumpington and elsewhere

Letters mostly from Trumpington

Letters from Trumpington and Harlton.

Letter mostly from Trumpington including some to Mrs. Otter

Letters written at Cherry Hinton, Harlton and (mostly) Cambridge.

Asks for Malthus' support in his candidature for the University Librarianship.

Letter concerning Malthus's loaned journals of the Swedish part of their 1799 tour; says the printer has orders to omit all inverted commas.

Copy in unidentified hand (Clarke's sister's?) of latter part of a poem by Clarke and first part of a letter to his sister dated Nov. 1821

Copies of extracts from Clarke's letters, possibly made by Mrs Otter when helping her husband compile his life of Clarke. The only complete letter included is one to Cripps describing the christening of Clarke's fifth living child and his election as University Librarian (1817).

Letter from Luke Jones concerning his payment by Dr. WIlliam French for the tuition costs of Thomas Mallett Wythe of Queens College for the academic year 1826 - 1837.

With two typed transcriptions of the letter.

Possibly made at the time of Thomas Wythe's death, perhaps to help establish how beneficiaries to his will were related, although possibly an antiquarian project by Wythe himself. Records possible relations back to the 13th century, but mainly from 16th century onwards.

Comprises: photocopies, reprints and press cuttings of articles by others (some annotated); typed research notes [some by Jane Callander], some annotated, for programme 8 and specifically on "Priestley's Laboratory", Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and his 'The Marriage of Figaro', and 'Le Nozze di Figaro' by Mozart; typescripts of Bronowski's "sync to camera" pieces for filming at Villandry [France] and in [Joseph] Priestley's Laboratory (heavily annotated) with comments by [Jo Marquand, BBC]; handwritten notes on Joseph Marie Jacquard, Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, James Prescott Joule, the stethoscope and the thermometer; a list of locations connected with Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and a one-page outline for programme 8 entitled "The Drive for Power: concepts of energy and its conservation".

Also includes: a photocopied timeline showing the lives of significant scientists (1780-1880); handwritten notes by Bronowski on Josiah Wedgewood and the Lunar Society; a list of captions for chapter 8 [for book]; and images of the destruction of Priestley's home during the Birmingham riots and a house labelled "Priestley".

Comprising photographs of Jacob Bronowski [aged 12-15] with [his sister, Lilli]; and a photograph of 5 children [probably family members of Rita or Jacob Bronowski, c. 1880-1930].

The album comprises mainly portrait photographs (one per page), and six pages of smaller multiple photographs, plus one loose family photograph labelled 1883 - 1933.

Consists of: photographs [copies from original negatives] of Whitechapel, London (c.1890-1963); correspondence with Mrs Annie Wynick (sister of Isaac Rosenberg) sending a catalogue of a Rosenberg exhibition held at Leeds University (1959); correspondence with the Borough Librarian of Stepney Public Libraries [included Whitechapel Library] and others about the librarian who first helped Bronowski at Whitechapel and others who remembered Isaac Rosenberg visiting the library (1957-1961).

Comprising an envelope labelled in Bronowski's hand, containing: [Bronowski's birth certificate] in Russian, stamped in Leipzig, Germany, with a negative photocopy; Jacob Bronowski's certificate of naturalization for British citizenship (under British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914), 18 May 1933; a photocopy of the marriage certificate of Jacob Bronowski and Rita Coblentz in Hampstead Register Office (London), 17 Feb. 1941; certificate of marriage of Jacob Bronowski and Rita Coblentz in Oxford synagogue, 22 Mar. 1944; "My Play Book" by Lisa Bronowski (written whilst a child) [1950-1955]; a telegram to Bronowski (General Hospital, Cheltenham) from the Beverley sisters, wishing him well again soon, 14 Mar. 1958; details of the graves of Celia and Abraham Bronowski (Jacob Bronowski's parents) at Bushey Jewish Cemetery, 30 Nov. 1959 and 10 Oct. 1961; a lease for a property in La Jolla, San Diego, to Jacob Bronowski beginning 25 Jan. 1963; letter from John Hunt (Executive Vice President of the Salk Institute) to Bronowski thanking him for his contribution to the Salk Institute, 17 Jul. 1969; a photocopy of Lisa Bronowski and Nicholas Jardine's marriage certificate, 28 Jul. 1969; 2 passports for Bronowski (lots of stamps), 1955-1974; a note on the Taung Skull and a note of an address for C. Bronowski.

Comprises an annotated typed outline of lecture 3, handwritten notes and a list of slides to be used. Also includes: a paper on 'The Realism of William Blake' by Bronowski (Jan 1969); copies of pages from Bronowski's 'The Poet's Defence'; copies of part of the poem 'The Third Booke of Ayres' by Campion; and a reprint of 'On the Verbal Art of William Blake and Other Poet-Painters' by Roman Jakobson (sent by Jakobson).

File of black and white studio portraits, most unidentified. Perhaps relatives of Laurence Picken?
A picture of a couple with a young baby (probably a christening photo): 'To A.P. With our love, 7.ix20'
A picture of a toddler is annotated in pencil: 'Diana Mary Wylly aged 3 1/2'
One of the oversize prints was taken by Johnston & Hoffmann in Calcutta.

Mainly comprises copies of papers by others. Also includes an annotated photocopy of the manuscript outline for 'The Logic of the Mind', and a letter to Bronowski from [Avrum Stroll] (department of Philosophy, University of California at San Diego) sending recommendations of papers to read.

Letter from Harold Spencer Jones to Dr. Bromwich regarding a mathematical problem.

The album was donated to Jesus College by Natalie Barham Chalker, niece of Geoffrey Barham Johnson, who came up to Jesus College in October 1912. The photographs include the Lent Races in Cambridge and Henley and May Bumps on the River Cam, amateur dramatics cast and May Ball photographs, and studio portrait photographs of fellow students from Jesus College. Also included are two newspaper obituaries of one of these friends, Lieutenant E.G. Myddleton, killed at Le Cateau, 26 August 1914. Geoffrey Barham Johnson also lost his life during the war on 23 November 1915 and is buried in the British Cemetery at Vermelles, in the Pas de Calais.

1. Jesus Second Lent Boat, a photograph of the crew with a list of names as follows: Eyton-Jones; Manifold; Bell A.C.; Johnson G.B.; McCaughey, S; Fairbairn, C.O.; North, D; Forman, G and Smyth, S.S, with notes about its success.

2. Lent term 1913, Jesus Second Lent Boat in practice, three photographs

3. Jesus Second Lent Boat and Corpus, 1st night

4. Jesus Second Lent Boat after bumping Corpus, 2nd night

5. 3rd night. A photograph showing Trinity, Queens and Jesus Eights

6. 3rd night. A photograph showing Trinity, Queens and Jesus Eights

7. 3rd night. A photograph showing Trinity, Queens and Jesus Eights

8. Jesus II crew, May 1913

9. Jesus I, 1913

10. An untitled photographs of Eights

11. An untitled photographs of Eights

12. An untitled photographs of Eights

13. One untitled photograph of Eights

14. An untitled photographs of Eights

15. An untitled photographs of Eights

16. An untitled photograph showing a panoramic view of the river with watching crowds [possibly the Oxbridge Boat Race]

17. Jesus I and Jesus II - Light Fours with notes

18. Jesus I and Jesus II - Light Fours with notes

19. Third Trinity - Light Fours

20. Third Trinity - Light Fours

21. Ely Scratch VIII

22. DI Day

23. Jesus Scratch, Ely VIII

24. Trial VIIIs, 1918, with list of names of winners and losers

25. Trial VIIIs, 1918, with list of names of winners and losers

26. Crew of Jesus II for Lent Races 1914 with the following names: Pryce; Peters; McLaughlin; Johnson; Gould; Ross; Yearsley; Napier; Swears and Tracy.

27. Jesus I Rowing Head, a photograph with list of names as follows: W. Stobart; G.G. White: C.O. Fairbairn; F.W. Nalder; S. McCaughey; J.L. Bullough; G.A. Fisher; E.A.S. Oldham and R.J. Wait.

28. Jesus 2nd Lent Boat 1914

29. Jesus II

30. Rowing eights on the River Cam

31. Friends on the towpath

32. Friends on the towpath

33. May Bumps on the River Cam, with a list of Jesus crew names as follows: Hoyte; Massey; Saver; Myddleton; Bracecamp; Payne; Murray and Rudd. H.B. Riggall on the towpath.

34. May Bumps on the River Cam

35. 'Varsity'

36. A photograph of boats

37. A photograph of boats

38. Eights

39. Eights

40. Eights

41. Jesus I at Henley, May 1913

42. Jesus I at Henley, May 1913

43. Selwyn I in the Thames Cup 1914 [GB Johnson was coach]

44. Selwyn I in the Thames Cup 1914 [GB Johnson was coach]

45. Comedic actors in costume

46. Comedic actors in costume

47. Comedic actors in costume

48. A photograph of the cast of a dramatic production

49. St John College May Ball 1914 - group photograph

50. Jesus May Ball group photograph [no date]

51. Group photograph of a private dinner

52. A portrait photograph 'Bob'

53. A portrait photograph 'JW Halder'

54. A portrait photograph 'Richard'

55. A signed portrait photograph of Bill

56. A signed portrait photograph of Hamlet

57. A newspaper cutting about the death of Lieutenant E.B. Myddleton

58. Another newspaper cutting about the death of Lieutenant E.B. Myddleton

59. A portrait photograph signed 'E.G. Myddleton'

60. A portrait photograph signed 'Bright'

61. A portrait photograph signed 'Cheeks'

62. A portrait photograph signed 'Hicks'

63. A wide view photograph of a boat race

64. An aerial view of a Rowing Eight [as seen from a bridge]

65. A portrait photograph signed 'yrs Raby'

66. A portrait photograph of an unidentified man

Comprises: a photocopy of 'The Delayed Reaction in Animals and Children' by Walter S Hunter (1913); a reprint of a review by Thomas Sebeok of papers including 'Communication among Social Bees' by Martin Lindauer (inscribed by the author and with an annotation by Bronowski); and notes made from Current Anthropology (journal).

Comprises: a transcript of a recording of a discussion between Bronowski, Adrian Malone and Jo Marquand (1 Jul 1970); photocopies, press cuttings and a reprint of articles by others; typed research notes on Wittgenstein for programme 13; a draft summary of programme 13 (2nd version); a typescript for "voiceover medieval mass"; and a one-page outline for programme 13 entitled "The Brain and the Mind: The Unsolved Question".

Also includes: a copy of an advert and key chart for a model of a brain, with notes on areas of the brain; a copy of 'Language, Name and Concept' by Bronowski and Ursula Bellugi (8 May 1970); photocopies of sign language alphabets; a letter from David Jones ('The Listener' BBC magazine) to Bronowski about [Shakespeare's] Hamlet's age (24 Mar 1974).

Additionally contains a letter from James Reeves to Bronowski (28 Jan 1972) on family news and his health [appears unrelated to 'The Ascent of Man'].

The photographs in the album are as follows:

1. Traangisvaag, Faroes

2. Traangisvaag Evening

3. Thorshavn from sea

4. Jensen and the Wool

5. A street in Thirshavn

6. Faroe Folk

7. The Governor's Garden

8. Thorshavn from rear

9. Kirkebo Ruins

10. Kirkebo Carving

11. Kirkebo Farm: balustrade of whales' bones

12. Goat on House Top, Thirshavn

13. Klaksvig

14. Whalehead Wall, Klaksvig

15. Rekjavik from the sea

16. Rekjavik Bay - British Squadron

17. Eider Ducks

18. Adalstræti

19. Mayor's House

20. Cathedral & Parliament House

21. Rekjavik, Thorwaldsen's Font, alterpiece

22. Rekjavik, Ancient [illegible]

23. Carved woodwork, Museum Rekjavik

24. Carved woodwork, Museum Rekjavik

25. Carved woodwork, Museum Rekjavik

26. Carved Woodwork, Museum Rekjavik; Alabaster Reredos from Reynistaar (Museum)

27. Reredos from Hroarstunga

28. Hay Ponies by the old 'English Shop'

29. Museum, Ancient Pulpit,

30. Museum, Loom [two photographs]

31. Rekjavik, Vesturgata

32. Rekjavik, Old House and Wild Camomile

33. Rekjavik, Cemetery

34. Rekjavik, Austurstæti

35. Waiting for Cargo of Fish

36. The Hay Boat

37. Pack Train Loaded

38. The Celebration in mem. 1874

39. Rekjavik, Angelica

40. Rekjavik, Epilobium

41. Rekjavik, Fish Drying

42. Rekjavik, Wild Camomile on Beach

43. Fish Drying Boards

44. [An untitled photograph of ponies]

45. Natural Laundry, hot spring in bed of stream

46. Bessasladir Church

47. Interior

48. Hafnarfjordur

49. Hafnarfjordur (Bay)

50. Crossing Pass to Krisuvik

51. Krisuvik & Lake

52. Sulphur Beds

53. Steam and Mud Volcanoes - Krisuvik

54. Lava Fall & sheephouses Herdisuvik

55. Herdisuvik

56. Sea at Strandarkirke

57. Strandarkirke (a votive church)

58. Hliderendi (west0

59. Hjalli

60. Ölfusá Bridge

61. The Lunch Farm 1

62. The Lunch Farm 2

63. Sjera Olafur Samundsson

64. Hravngerdi

65. Thjorsa Bridge

66. Storolfsnyoll

67. Storolfshvoll Church

68. The Tombstone

69. Storolfshvoll Altarpiece

70. Hravngerai reredos

71. Chalice, Paten & Bowl Storolfshvoll

72. A Camping Church Storolfshvoll

73. Ponies at Slipper

74. The 'Fairy' Chalice Breidabolstadr

75. Hlidarendi

76. Lunch under Hlidarendi

77. Hlidarendi Garden

78. Gunnar's Mound

79. Eyjafjalla Jökull from Hlidarendi

80. Hayfield Múlakot

81. Gorge under Eyjafjalla

82. Fall in Glen, Barkarstadr

83. Barkarstadr

84. Entrance to Thórsmörk (valley)

85. A Side Valley

86. Camp in Storiendi

87. Eyjafjalla Jökull from Camp, Thórsmörk [a panoramic photograph folded and inserted between the pages]

88. Natural Arch

89. Eyjafjalla Jökull

90. Glacier from Eyjafjalla

91. Crevasses Krossarjökull

92. The Ice Fall Krossarjökull

93. Arch above Camp

94. Arête between Storiendi & Thrángádal

95. Krossárdal & Markarfjót from arête

96. Upper Valley of Markarfjót & Hattafel

97. Krossárdal from Ridge above Camp

98. Gorge Side, Upper Krossárdal

99. Krossá Pinnacles & Godalands Tökull

100. The Kláfr, a curious wire rope bridge, East Coast

101. The Ice Cones on Breidamerkr Jökull

102. Basalt 'Pavement' of Kirkjubær

103. Sheepsbone Walling, East Coast

Comprises: photocopies, reprints and press cuttings of articles by others (some annotated) including a biographical memoir of Leo Szilard by Eugene Wigner; typed research notes for programmes 11 and 10; a draft summary of programme 11 including filming locations; and a one-page outline for programme 11 entitled "The spectrum of information: The role of radiation".

Also includes: a copy of a letter from Albert Einstein to Franklin D Roosevelt (President of the United States) about uranium (1939); a copy of a memorandum on atomic bombs sent to the President of the United States [Roosevelt] by Leo Szilard (1939); handwritten notes on Leo Szilard's early career by Trude Szilard Weiss (his wife); copies of pages from 'The World set free' by H G Wells (1914); an annotated patent specification for "improvements in or relating to the transmutation of chemical elements' (1934, published 1949); and a table on "the spectrum of information" showing the qualities of types of radiation.

Complete set of 'The Egyptonian' a monthly newsletter edited by Frederick Brittain when he was serving on board the hospital ship HM Egypt. Contains copies of Issues 1-23, December 1915 - September 1919.

In July 1920 F.B. edited 'The Old Egyptonian' which contained information about reunions of those serving on board the 'Egypt'.

List of toasts for Old Egyptonians Association Annual Reunion, 16th April 1939

Consists of reprints of articles by F N David (one with a page of mathematical calculations [by Bronowski] slotted inside) and J Neyman, F. Garwood, The Applied Mathematics Panel of the National Defense Research Committee, Alessandro Terracini (in Italian), J. A. Todd, Claude Chevalley, T. G. Room, W. V. D. Hodge, Patrick Du Val, and H. S. M. Coxeter. With an envelope listing the reprints.

Copies of articles written by Frederick Brittain which appeared in various publications including The Egyptonian, The Barnet Press, and The Cambridge Review

Response from Sir Joseph Larmor (made Lucasian Professor in 1903) regarding the theory of relativity.

Consists of a school report (22 Dec 1920); a letter from Bronowski to his mother about his travels through France and Spain, sent from Mallorca (8 Jul 1932); a poem 'The Dejected Artist' written for Rita Coblentz (later Bronowski) by Jacob Bronowski (30 Dec 1939) with notes and sketches for sculpture on the reverse; a letter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology confirming payment for visiting professorship (May 1953); correspondence with Robert Oppenheimer, Professor [David] Mitrany and Julian Huxley mainly on a failed application to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Sep 1956-Feb 1957); correspondence with Warren Weaver and John Marshall regarding a motor bike accident that Bronowski was in and a proposed fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation, New York (Jan 1958-Jun 1959); Christmas and New Year cards (1950s-1960s); Tac Tix mathematical problem from 'Scientific American' solved by Bronowski (22 Jun 1958); certificate of membership to the Athenaeum club, London (19 Feb 1962); correspondence with the University of Pennsylvania regarding a cancelled appointment as visiting professor of Philosophy (Oct 1958-Apr 1959); correspondence with Ward Howell Associates regarding a proposed job as a Vice President in a manufacturing company, United States (Apr-Jul 1957); press cutting about 'interferon' (Nov 1961).

Humourous cricket team list. Two notecards from Littlewood at Trinity. Letter from someone at King's College

Typescript invitation and itinerary for the event, sent by F.P. Whiteley.

Kept with an undated manuscript of 'A Page from the Diary of Beau Tibbs' by A. Altshul [after Oliver Goldsmith?], Form 5A - annotated by Laurence Picken as being '1920s; 6th-form student in Birmingham Waverley Road Secondary School'.

Photograph shows T. S. Nevill

Letter of recommendation for Alexander Jackson from the tutor Edwin Abbott. Incomplete letter from Larmor.

Handwritten notebook by Frederick Brittain entitled 'Old Provencal Literature'

Article by Frederick Brittain entitled 'An Eight-day Week, which appeared in the 'Chanticlere', Lent Term 1922. This copy is typed and has a handwritten inscription on the bottom which says 'With my love and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year to you all from Muriel'.

Newspaper cutting and reviews of the following publications by Frederick Brittain:

The Decadence of Europe by Francesco Nitti, translated by Frederick Brittain, 1923

They Make a Desert by Francesco Nitti, translated by Frederick Brittain, 1924

Saint Radegund Patroness of Jesus College Cambridge, 1925

The Lyfe of Saynt Radegunde, 1926

Notes on the First Twenty Years of the Roosters, 1928

Saint Giles, 1928

The Jesus College Boat Club, Cambridge, 1928

Slowly Forward, 1929

Oar, Skull and Rudder, 1930

South Mymms. The Story of a Parish, 1931

Latin in Church, 1934

The Medieval Latin and Romance Lyric, 1937

Includes menus for events attended by Brittain including The Old Elizabethans 34th annual dinner at Holborn Restaurant 1st November 1923; Jesus College St. Maglorious' Day 1938; Jesus College F. M. G. S., 14th May 1935; Unidentified Jesus College menu, 15th June 1935; Unidentified Jesus College menu, 6th December 1929; 'Nameless' menu, no date; The Jesus College XIX Club annual dinner 1932; C. G. S. Annual Dinner, 3rd June 1927; C. G. S. dinner, 2nd January 1928; Invitation to Brittain and guest to attend Cambridge Premiere of 'Bachelor of Hearts' at the Regal Cinema, Cambridge, Monday 19th January 1959; F. M. G. S. dinner 14th May 1935; Unidentified menu 16th February 1935; Cambridge Graduates' Medical Club 28th June 1929; Sydney Church of England Grammar School Old Boys Union, Reunion dinner of the United Kingdom Branch, 22nd October 1938;

Contains: records of matches that Bronowski played in including score sheets; correspondence relating to scores and matches; National Coal Board chess section bulletins; press cuttings on chess matches and chess problems by Bronowski; British Chess Federation 'Awards in Problem Tourneys' (Aug 1934) and other published leaflets on chess.