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Comprises correspondence between Dr David Paterson (BBC) and Bronowski on: Paterson's research for content and illustrations for 'The Ascent of Man' television programmes; Bronowski's illness (1973); Paterson carrying out research on gravity for a 'Horizon' television programme; and an error relating to bees in programme 12 of 'The Ascent of Man' and the error being corrected.

Correspondence of David W. Dykes with Ian Stewart

Comprises correspondence with Dean Frontis W Johnston of Davidson College (North Carolina) relating to Bronowski being a Reynolds Distinguished Lecturer at the College. Bronowski delivered a talk to the students on 'The Ethics of Science' (9 May 1967) and a public lecture on 'Science and the Imagination' (9 May 1967).

Also includes a booklet on Reynolds Distinguished Lecturers and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

Includes photograph of painting

Comprises recordings of an interview of Bronowski by James Day. Subjects include Bronowski's view that science should be relevant to the needs of society, and ideas on poetry.

Mainly comprises correspondence between Bronowski and Frederick de Hoffman (Chancellor, and later President, of the Salk Institute) on subjects including discussions with the National Foundation (1972), the budget for the Council for Biology in Human Affairs (with a budget summary and memorandum to Bronowski from Harry Boardman about the budget), and Bronowski recommending books on molecular biology for de Hoffman to read.

Also includes: a memorandum from Joseph Slater (President) to Salk Institute staff about the appointment of de Hoffman as Chancellor; copies of letters between Melvin A. Glasser (Chairman, Executive Committee, The National Foundation) and John McCloy (Chairman of the Board, Salk Institute) about negotiations between the two organisations; a copy of a memorandum from Sylvia Fitzgerald to de Hoffman about her visiting the United Kingdom (Dec 1974); copies of letters between de Hoffman and Aubrey Singer (BBC) regarding the Salk Institute purchasing 'The Ascent of Man' films (Nov-Dec 1974); and a memorandum from de Hoffman to Salk Institute staff about news stories about somatostatin discovered at the Salk Institute (Mar 1975).

List of income received by Dead College fund between 1863 and 1864. Includes rent, property tax and land tax in Babraham from one year to March 1864. Includes Kellers Benefaction and Otters benefaction dividend. Also includes list of scholarships: Marshall, Price, Sterne, Somerville, Hendon, Loughboro, Gatford, Humphrey, Marshead, Tew, Marsden, Sykes and Ley.
Also includes list of expenses paid out of the fund. Includes Barnaby Lecturers, Kellers Benefaction, Otters Benefaction, Steward for M. A. Compounders, subscription to All Saints new Church, St. Paul's Church, King's Stanley Church, Cavendish School and St. Giles Burial Ground, purchase of the lease of the House in Jesus Lane and related expenses, Italian seamstress and draper, and stewards' bills for 1863 and 1864. Also includes list of scholarships paid out: Marshall, Price, Sterne, Somerville, Gatford, Humphrey, Mawhood, Tew, Marsden, Sykes and Ley. Also cost of augmentation of All Saints, King's Stanley, conveyance of something to All Saints Church and Starward for agency.

Begins 2 Feb. 1668/9, when the Master appears to have made up a deficit from his own pocket. The account was audited by the resident Fellows on 2 Feb. each year. Under the date 26 Jan. 1679 is a list of "Orders agreed upon as a means of reducing the debt of the College to the Bursar, Mr Lewis", involving sealing money, feasts commuted for payments (to the Dead College and to the library), and rents raised. There follow Library accounts, 1681-1743/4, giving prices of books and of binding, and a debt to the library fund created in 1716, with arrangements for paying it off; also an account of offerings in Chapel, 1681, and how they were spent. At the end of the book are: a record of borrowings from the treasury, 1667/8-1747 (of documents, money and plate to be sold or exchanged); sums withdrawn from the Rustat Chest; an audit of plate (no lists given); notes of the use and return of the college seal, with a note about the surrender and exchange of "broad gold" from the college bags, 25 April 1733.

Paid 1 pound 2 shilling and 5 pence to Isaac Barber, Dealer in Coals, Corn, Hay, Deals, Bricks, Tiles for deal (wood)
Kept together with JCAS/2/2/9/1855/11, likely used in building fences described in bill to Clark.

Comprises correspondence with Dennis Flanagan (Scientific American), notes, a photocopy from Scientific American (Jun 1968) and typescripts of a book review by Bronowski of 'Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima' by Robert Jay Lifton.

Also includes a letter from Henry Krystal (Clinical Associate Professor, Wayne State University, department of Psychiatry) answering an enquiry about a study of massive psychic trauma and sending a reprint of 'Discussion: Psychic Sequelae of Massive Psychic Trauma' by Krystal (1966, enclosed).

William French was appointed executor to Thomas Wythe's estates (along with his wife and Meadows Taylor Esq). Includes some papers relating to Thomas Wythe which were, presumably, used or required in order to carry out the duties of executor of his will.

Correspondence of the new Rector (from 1905) Osmond Philip Fisher, with the college and with Queen Anne's Bounty, trying to pay off debts and raising a new loan. [NB the old list refers to a valuation by the Sequestrator, E. Ashcoft, not on the file, apparently].

Comprises correspondence between Professor Allen Debus (of the University of Chicago department of History) and Bronowski on sources relating to Isaac Newton and alchemy, including an article by Debus that he sent to Bronowski. Also contains a letter from Debus to Jonas Salk on Bronowski's death with a reply from Salk's secretary.

Clara Pike respecting the family of the late William Press

Declaration by the College, giving £6400 £3 per cent consolidated bank annuitites as an augmentation of the Vicarage of Hinxton. Not dated or signed, see also the files for Hinxton.

Signed by Master Lynford Caryl with a seal affixed.

Indenture between William Coppard, Rector and the Master and Fellows of the College, and Messrs Fiske and Day: Coppard will resign the living if appointed to the Rectory of Farnborough, but would like to be re-appointed to Gravely. The College is dissatisfied with the state of repair of the parsonage etc., so Coppard has placed £400 in the hands of Fiske and Day, to pay for dilapidations after his death or resignation, he to recive interest in the meantime [Coppard died in October 1827].

Official declaration of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, made under the Benefices Act 1898 (Amerndment) measure 1923, declaration of the unsaleability of the benefice..

Paid to E. Barnes & Son. £7 10s for decorating works at 60 Aldermanbury.

Paid £21 15s 5d to Elliot Smith for preparing and hanging wallpaper in the Master's Lodge, repairing paper in the Master's Lodge, wallpaper, border, cartridge, paste and size, cast papers, large brass headed nails. Also work in the Chapel including nails and covering form, grey drugsett?, wainscott, screws, glue, make rest for curtains, curtain cases fitted to doorcases, facols? feathers, cutting out and making cans? from cutting out of old damask, fringe, crimson gilt lace, dying damask, matting, leather and binding the matting, ? desks?

Bill for decorating and repairs at 2 Eden Street. 6s 4d paid to Allen Neech, Paperhanger, Painter and Decorator.

Received of Jesus College the sum of ten shillings on account of decorations and repair front passage at No. 3 Park Street, Cambridge (10s)

Estates:
To account 16 Malcolm Street (7s; 6d)

College:
To painting estimate Greenhouse, East House (£10)
To repair and painting Summer House estimate (£15)
To painting entrance gates estimate (£10)
The gun (?) (£4; 10s)

Steward:
The Porters Lodge cycle stand and Chapel Court estimate (£11; 10s)
To washing and distempering ceiling, preparing walls for paper, hanging paper. Cleaning down, touching up and varnishing wood work. Burning off door, painting and varnishing Porters Lodge Front Gate (£7; 5s)
10 pieces of paper (£1)
Distempering bedrooms ceilings and walls and cleaning down wood work Porters Lodge (£3; 10s)

Estates:
Grover Cottages painting estimate (£12)
Washing and distempering ceilings, preparing walls for paper, hanging paper at Phillips Cottage (£2 10s)
9 pieces of paper (15s; 9d)

College:
Paper hanging, distempering at his Dukes Rooms as per estimate (£4; 12s; 6d)

Final total: £83; 9d

To painting estimates:
16, 17, 18 Malcolm Street (£27; 10s)
5, 6, 25 Malcolm Street (£27; 4s)
6-7 Jesus Lane
3-9 Portland Place (£38)
To taking up floor, old joist brick- work to supplying new joists, concrete, floor boards. Fitting and laying same to floor in basement sitting room at no. 16 Malcolm Street (£9; 5s)

Grove Cottages painting as per estimate (£12)

Receipt for repairing water pipe at 16 Malcolm Street (7s; 6d)

Paid to Elliot Smith for work done on the new buildings, including payments for hanging wallpaper in the new rooms, for the paper, paste, corder, cast paper. Signed by Smith

Bill for decorating Mr King's rooms, in I cloister. Total payment of £15 5s 3d, and includes payment for: recanvassing the walls of the sill, preparing, sizing and hanging paper in bedroom, gyp room and passage. Includes payment for canvas, glass paper, brown paper, paste, size, paper, calico. Received 19th February 1866 and signed by W. Lose [?] for C. J. Bulstrode.

Payment of £14 11s 9d to John Swan, at 19 Sidney Street for papering the Fellows Rooms. Includes payments for papering the walls of the Reverend Mr Morgan's keeping room, study, bedroom, gyproom. Also includes payments for deal, canvas, lining paper, size, nails, glazed paper, oak paper, tacks. Bill includes a section crossed out for payments for papering the walls of Dr Woodham's large and smaller bedrooms. Signed by H. Rayner.

Bill for decorating work in the college. Total payment of £29 5s 6d, and includes payment for repainting sitting room and bedroom and mending ceiling in Mr Holland's rooms; repainting Mr Harris' bedroom; repainting and graining Mr Luckock's door; washing, whitening and repointing the sitting room ceiling, repainting and graining work, repainting the study, washing and whitening the bedroom and ante room ceilings, and papering and painting the gyp, all in Mr Morgan's rooms; washing, whitening and painting sitting room and bedroom ceilings, work to rooms and repapering gyp rooms in numbered rooms in staircases A, C, E, F, H and J. Dated 21st November 1863 and signed by W. and G. Flack.

Receipt for £1 7s 6d for part of cost of work executed as per estimate and for upstairs front bedroom ceiling done in October 1925.

Hugh de Stamford, Commissary General of the Official of Ely, gives judgment in a suit between the prioress and convent of St Radegund and Sir Geoffrey, chaplain and perpetual vicar of St Clement's. The prioress claims arrears of her pension of 5 marks per annum due from the vicar out of the alter fees. He is ordered to pay 1 mark on St Nicholas day (6 December) and 20 shillings at Epiphany (6 January).

Mr. Tancred
Aboy
Henry James Perry
Otter
John Peter De Gex
Benedict Lawrence Chapman
Thomas Bates
Francis Fisher
Rev. Hen. Jones Daubeney
Rev. Robert Alfred Rackham
Balance: 72-80-10

Master French
Mr. Dickes
Saskin
Frudall
Viuables
Rev. Charles Style Drake
Balance: 68-18-11

Dedication "Truly the Lord is in this place..." for voices and organ in G major. "Glory to God in the brightest". Series 3: Gloria ending.

Order of Service for the dedication of the Brittain memorial doors, at 3.45pm in the College Chapel, led by the Visitor of the College

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) The Officer Commanding the Cambridge University Officer Training Corps. Supplemental to lease of the Old Rifle Range, Grange Road, Cambridge dated 22nd December 1937. Includes plans

18s to be paid as land tax to T. Poulter, deed sent to College by John Prince, Collector.