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Poor Rate and General Rate paid to the City of London: £13 19s 9d.

Receipt of poor rate payments for parish of Hundon no.61. Received from Master and Fellows, Jesus College:
Poor rate: £10 10s. 4d;
£18 18s. 1/4d;
£22 13s. 4 1/2 d;
£22 13s. 7 1/2 d;
Highway rate: £7 11s. 2 1/2d.
Collected by Henry Hammond; Assessment of £453 12s. 6d.

Receipt for £31-13-9 for poor relief in the parish of Hundon, signed off by Robert Gibbons. Annotation on back mentions highway rate (8d in a pound for poor rate, 20d in a pound for highway rate).

Poor and General District Rates Payment Requests for Messre B. and A. Goodliffe (years 1920-1921 and 1921).
Poor Rate: £2 18s - General District Rate: 15s 8.5d - Total: £3 13s 8.5d

Request of payment of poor and general district rates (addressed to the Bursar of Jesus College) for the following allotments: the College, Hobart Road, Cherry Hinton Road, House in the grounds of Jesus College.
Poor rate total: £482 13s
General district rate total: £258 2d
Total: £740 13s 2d

Request of payment of poor and general district rates (addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College) for the following allotment: East House in the grounds of Jesus College.
Poor rate total: £20
General district rate total: £10; 16s; 8d
Total: £30; 16s; 8d

Request of payment of poor and general district rates (addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College) for the following allotment: Cherryhinton Road, House in the grounds of Jesus College.
Poor rate total: £11; 14s
General district rate total: £3; 3s; 4 1/2d
Total: £14; 17s; 4 1/2d

Request of payment of poor and general district rates (addressed to the Bursar) for the following allotment: Jesus College.
Poor rate total: £450
General district rate total: £243; 15s
Total: £693; 15s

2 requests of payment of poor and general district rates (addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College) for Jesus College.

1- Poor rate total: £450
General district rate total: £243; 15s
Total: £693; 15s

2- Poor rate total: £20
General district rate total: £10; 16s 8d
Total: £30; 16s; 8d

Request of payment of poor and general district rates (addressed to Various) for the following allotment: Cherryhinton Road, House in the grounds of Jesus College.
Poor rate total: £11; 14s
General district rate total: £3; 3s; 4 1/2d
Total: £14; 17s; 4 1/2d

Request of payment of poor and general district rates (addressed to Jesus College) for the following allotment: Hobart Road, House in the grounds of Jesus College.
Poor rate total: 10s
General district rate total: 5s; 1 1/2d
Total: £1; 4s; 1 1/2d

Demand for payment of Poor Rate and General District Rate on property owned by Jesus College Cambridge, sent to a Mr. Goodcliffe. Total £1.16.3.

Demand for payment of Poor Rate and General District Rate on property owned by Jesus College Cambridge, sent to a Mr. Goodcliffe. Total £2. 1. 8.25d.

Consists of a photocopy of 'Il problema della classicità nella poesia americana contemporanea' about poems by Cornel Adam Lengyel, with an envelope listing the article.

A poem by Roy Campbell, with drawings by James Boswell.

Consists of 2 letters (one annotated by Bronowski) from Max I Baym (Chairman, Humanities Forum) on arranging for Bronowski to give a lecture to the Forum (26 Feb 1963).

Comprises photocopies of pages from books about Polynesia, with a few annotations [by Jo Marquand].

Consists of 2 typescript papers [pre-publication/unpublished] by Pols (Department of Philosophy, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine) on 'Philosophical Knowledge and the Person' and 'Consciousness-makers and the Autonomy of Consciousness', with an envelope listing the papers.

Consists of a postcard asking Bronowski to review 'The Scientific Estate' by Don K Price, annotated "no".

Letters to and replies from Prime Ministers with regard to various complaints. Includes letter from Margaret Thatcher, 1970

8¾ x 7

Comprises correspondence about Dr Jerzy Kubin (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences) visiting [the Salk Institute] and other research centres, an invitation to an international congress on semiotics in Poland, and Jonas Salk inviting Professor Adam Schaff of the Polish Academy of Sciences to visit the Salk Institute.

Also includes a curriculum vitae for Teresa (Mellerowicz) Gella and addresses for some academics in Poland.

Paid to the City of London. £1 4s for the Police Rate for 60 Aldermanbury.

Paid to the City of London. £2 8s for the Police Rate for 39 Aldermanbury.

Paid to the City of London. £1 4s for One Quarter's Police Rate.

Consists of a booklet of the 13th Arthur Stanley Eddington Memorial lecture by Polanyi on 'Beyond Nihilism' (sent to Bronowski by the author) and a photocopy of 'On the Modern Mind' from Encounter (journal), with an envelope listing the contents.

Comprises correspondence relating to 'Man and the Science of Man: a conference on the Philosophy of the Behavioral Sciences' organised by the Western Behavioural Sciences Institute and held at the Salk Institute (6 Mar 1966) featuring lectures by Michael Polanyi, Carl Rogers and Bronowski ('The Logic of the Mind'). Also includes a programme, preliminary list of participants, handwritten lecture notes [by Bronowski], and a bibliography [for Bronowski's lecture].

11⅜ x 15

Letters of Poggio [Bracciolini] and others; M. R. James's no. 63. James lists the individual writers or recipients (most but not all are by Poggio). David Rundle (see publication note) says this volume "includes a series of Poggio letters not otherwise known to have had an English circulation" and "was clearly made for private use by someone whose name is Thomas Armin (reading the code at fol.27v)", of whom nothing further is known. The work is followed by a tract: Dilucidarium lemonocensis [= John Lemovicensis] de sompno pharaonis, consisting of 20 letters supposed to be written by actors in or observers of the story of Joseph and Pharaoh; it is dedicated to Theobald, King of Navarre. At the end of the volume are some domestic accounts, mentioning William Fairwether and servant Thomas Marcer, and the copy of a letter to Francis Tyrwhitt about a lawsuit involving "my brother Thomas Fairwether".

Consists of notes and drafts for poems, and typescripts of poems. Also includes a letter from Atlantic Monthly declining to publish 'To Harry, Going West' (Jan 1970).

Black and white printed drawing of a house with a typed written poem underneath. It has brown tape around the edges to make it look like a frame. It has hanging fixtures on the back. Also on the back is handwritten "Lants 1922. In the Great Bumping Hall"

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

Receipt from Messrs Farell, Ellis and Sons, Plumbers and Glaziers, for plumbing work carried out in college over 1873-4.
Masters Lodge: taking up three water closets; drawing, repairing and refining aparatus; clearing out cisterns etc.; one new white basin; bleaching two basins; 3ft of new 3/4 in pipe; soldering joints; connecting pipes and hooks; new valve and tap in bathroom; stopping floot and ceiling under WC with sawdust; straightening pipe and correcting stop tap; materials and labour for all of these tasks. Cost: £2 6s 6d.
Courts/Roofs/Rooms/Staircases: taking up two basins, unstopping taps and soil pipes, and cleaning and refining student WCs; mending roof over library and lodge in 18 places (cost reduced by credit from selling old lead).
Gas lamps: one bent glass top for gas lamp in cloisters; four squares of glass and repairs to tin work on gas lamp in F staircase.
Morris' rooms, J2: one window casement (releading and cementing); ten glass quarries added; painting, puttying, and banding to iron frame.
Library: two squares of glass and three quarries; one square of glass for library staircase.
L staircase: taking down rainwater pipe, cleaning and refixing (including new wall hooks and half a day's wage for plumber).
New valves for WCs in P staircase and pensioners' closets.
New stop cap and valve for WC in First Court.
Landing of M staircase: repairing lead work to light and 20 pieces of tinted glass.
2 men paid a quarter day's wages for repairing the hosepipe and making joints (plus cost of tubes, copper wire, and leather collars).
New squares of glass for C and F staircases, the Porters' Lodge, Mr Phelps' rooms in B staircase, Mr Bennett's rooms in L staircase, A.B. Williams' rooms in C staircase, Dr Woodhouse's rooms; Mr Cleverley's rooms; Mr Fennel's rooms (work carried out 1872).
New valves, joints, and taps for D and E staircases.
New windows in M, O, and P staircases: 20 windows total, incl. 31 pieces of glass (plain and cathedral) and three-quarter day's wage for plumber.
Servants' closets: taking up, cleaning, refixing, and correcting bedmakers' closet and repairing tap (incl. labour costs); two cement joints, two arm joints, and one lead flanch; one new brass screw to handle Smith's work; new valve leather (cleaning, oiling, correcting); taking up and refixing basin and tap; repairing pipe and sink in back yard; new square of glass and repairs to roof in Servants' Hall.
Porters' Lodge: new valve and four new brass flanch screws.
Refilling six ventilators on roof with charcoal.
New valve box, bucket, and leathers in the Fellows' Garden.
2 metal plates for noticeboards, incl. painting black and small letters.
Chapel: taking eight [?] out of ventilation to alter pulley, refixing and repriming, puttying and banding to iron frame; taking down one stack rainwater pipes and fixing new, incl. two lengths of 4 in iron pipe; coal; nails; one square of glass in the tower; one day's wages for a glazier to assist in taking out old lights in south transept window and glazing with sheet glass; one round lead grate for gutters; three quarter day wages for man to assist glazing the stained glass.
Kitchens: 4 squares glass; new valves, valve box, pump, leather, and bucket (plus labour costs).
Buttery: 2 squares glass; relining sink with lead; taps, pipes etc.
Hall: cleaning all windows; releading all casements, and priming, puttying, and banding new glass to them; glazing windows; releading stained glass shields (incl lead and solder).
Total cost for all works £88 19s 4d.

Plumbing repairs at 37 Eden Street - total cost of £2 13s 8d, for a new high pressure stop tap, soldering new joints, new piping from the surface box to the stop tap, paying the meter company for turning off the water, and paying the plumber. A further £2 16s 8d paid for pumping new valve box and fitting valves in one of the Jesus Lane houses.

Receipt for repairs to pump in Manor St, including a new valve box and valve, 1/4 day's wages for a labourer, plumber, and fitter. Total cost of work 4s 3d.

Paid by Mr W.R. Smith (12 Eden St) to Cambridge University & Town Water Works Company for fixing the new tap in kitchen (9s)

Invoice for plumbing costs, to the college chapel:

February 1858: For releading 2 lights, for 24 quarries added to above, for labour 1/4 day, 2 men, taking and fixing.
February 1859: For putting lights and 3 quarries and labouring 1/4 day, 2 men with ladders.
March 1859: For releading glass and quarries. For everything of fixing, putting, and barring. For labour 1/2 day, 1 man to taking out light, and making good the casement in north side of nave.
May 7th 1859: For the tower 1 ft of lead to pocket and pipe. For labour 1/2 day, 1 plumber and 1 man.
May 9th 1859: For 20 ft of lead flashing. For 14 ft of plumbing solder for above. For labour 1 day, 1 plumber and man.
May 10th 1859: For labour 1 day, 1 plumber and man, for tower and cleaning roof and gutters.

Invoice for plumbing costs for hall, buttery, and combination room:
November 8th 1858: for hall, 1 square of glass.
December 1st 1858: for hall, 1 square of glass.
May 27th 1859: for buttery, 1/4 day 1 man for sinks.
May 31st 1859: for cleaning windows in combination room and waiting room.
August 18th 1859: for Hall, cleaning all the windows.

For the college kitchen:
March 17th 1859: FOr 1 square of glass in larder.
May 7th 1859: For 1 square of glass in kitchen.
August 23 1859: for labour 1/4 day 2 men for taking lead off coffers.
September 2nd 1859: for 1/2 day 2 men relaying 5ft of lead.
October 1st 1859: for cleaning all the windows.

Invoice of costs for the courts, roofs etc.
November 5th 1858: For closets, 3/4 day 2 men for correcting. New spring. For new felt and 2 plungers.
November 17th 1858: For roofs 1/2 day 2 men for cleaning.
November 24th 1858: For labour 1/4 day 2 men to thawing 2 pumps of ice out of cistern.
November 26th 1858: For labour 1/2 day 2 men to servants' closets, correcting above.
December 1st 1858: For gas lamp over Masters Lodge, 1 side of.
December 21st 1858: For gas lamp 1 side of above. For servants' closets.
2nd February 1859: For new building landing window 1 square foot of glass. For gas lamps Second Court 1 side 1 square foot.
February 19th 1859: For mending pipe by urinal 1/4 day. 2 men 1/10 1ft of solder.
21st February 1859: For Court Pump new 4 mch. bucket, leather and valve 3/6, new valve box, leather and valve 2/6. For labour 1 day 1 plumber for above and altering iron waste.
12th March 1859: For cleaning leads and gutters over cloisters.
17th March 1859: For gas lamps over front gate 2 side squares 4/1. 3 foot square. 1 bottom square 1/.
6th April 1859: For servants closets 1/4 day 1 man to cleaning out gutters, correcting wire valves.
13th April 1859: For 1 stair case landing 1 square foot of glass.
7th May 1859: For 1/2 day 2 men for cleaning of roof and gutters.
17th May 1859: For cleaning and altering water closets 3/4 days, 1 plumber and man, 1ft of copper wire.
31st May 1859: For new building landing 1 square of glass.
6th June 1859: For pensioners closet 3/4 day 1 man correcting. Cleaning out cistern, wire, and putting. For gas lamp at 1st Court, 1 side square. For lamps Pump Court, 1 square ft, 1 side 2/ carried over.
25th July 1859: For 7ft 8 inches Rough Plate glass.
26th July 1859: For 1 cut of plate lead. For 9ft of plumbing solder 9/, 100 nails.
28th July 1859: For labour 3 1/4 days, 1 plumber 1 man to laying down above.
August 15th 1859: For lead roof over lodge, labour 1 day, 1 plumeber and man, mending 7/6, for 11 1/2 feet of solder for above.
23rd August 1859: For D Staircase landing, 1 square foot of glass.
September 1st 1859: For lead roof over Mr Simpsons 3/4 day, 2 men to mending, 9ft of solder.
7th September 1859: For labour 1 day 2 men to cleaning all the roofs and gutters.
October 17th 1859: For new cisterns 2 cut 2 sqrs. 18ft of Servants Closets. Sheet lead.
19th October 1859: Solder for cisterns. Labour 1 3/4 day, 1 plumber and man, and lining.
20th October: for labour 1 1/2 days 1 plumber and man to taking old lead and service holes out of cistern and refitting with valves. 4 leathers and planches and valves. For 4 new lead service boxes.
21st October: For labour 1 day 1 plumber and man, for fitting of valves and pipes. For 12 1/2 ft of 3/4 pipe, for 6ths of solder and boxes valves. For 8ft of 1/4 pipe to main. For 17 3/4 joints. 3 1/4 joints.
26th October 1859: For labour 3 days 1 pluber and man, for finishing pipes and levers. For 4 ball levers on brass levers. For 14 pipe hooks, 20ft of copper wire. For B Staircase empty room 1 square foot of glass.
27th and 29th October 1859: For labour 1/2 days 1 plumbers and an for lead flashing and ridge over servants closets. For 3 quarters 24ths of 5ft milled lead. 1 cut 4ths of old lead. For 1/2 dozen of copper nails.

An invoice addressed to Mr Porcher from Messrs Favell and Ellis, with charges for unstopping and cleaning a trap in the water closet; cleaning and taking up the W/C; and for materials and labour. All totals 19s 4d. Signed as paid by A J Ellis 10 April 1862.

Paid to the Cambridge University and Town Water Works Company to repair pipes and tap in the kitchen at 8 Portugal Place. 15s 6d

Paid to E. Barnes & Son. £139 10s for plumbing works at 62 and 62a Aldermanbury.

Bill for sum of £18 4s 10d paid to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing work

The Chapel:
17th September 1840 = 1.5 days of labour repairing roof, 18ft of plumbing solder

Buttery. Hall & Combination Room
16th June 1840 = 4ft of new leading, casement
1st July 1840 = cleaning the combination room windows
17th October 1840 = cleaning all the hall and combination room windows
20th October 1840 = 1 sq of glass in hall windows
24th October 1840 = 1 sq of glass in buttery casement

The College Kitchen:
17th January 1840 = 1 sq of glass in kitchen
14th September 1840 = lead on copper sheet, old lead, 3 & 3/4 ft of plumbing solder, 3/4 day of labour
15th September 1840 = 1/2 day of labour
19th October 1840 = cleaning all the kitchen and larder windows

The Courts Rooms
1st November 1839 = 1 sq of glass in the library, 2 casements new leading in Mr Rackham's Room
13th November 1839 = 1 sq of glass in stables
21st November 1839 = 6 small sq in shoe place
5th December 1839 = 1 day of 2 men repairing roof over lodge
6th December 1839 = 1 day of 2 men repairing roof over lodge, 28ft of plumbing solder
7th December 1839 = Court pump new box and leather work
17th January 1840 = 2 sq in tops of gas lamps in 1st court
25th January 1840 = casement new leading, 2 sq in Fellow's closet, 1 sq of glass in staircase window
25th February 1840 = Stable pump - new bucket and work
17th April 1840 = Porter's lamp - 3 sq, painting
27th April 1840 = 1 bottom in gas lamp in Cloisters, 1 sq of glass in staircase
22nd May 1840 = 2 sq of glass in Porter's Lodge
27th May 1840 = 1/2 day of 1 man labour, pipe in 1st court
7th July 1840 = 1 sq of glass in staircase of Pump Court
14th July 1840 = Pump Court lamps - 3 top sq, 2 bottoms, 1 side, 1 door
25th September 1840 = 1 sq of glass in new building staircase
14th October 1840 = new bucket and box leathers, work, Court Pump
20th October 1840 = 1 sq of glass staircase, 1 sq of glass blank window 1st court
24th October 1840 = Show place 8 small squares
30th October 1840 = 1/4 day of 1 man's work to roof over King's Room
31st October 1840 = 1 day of 1 man's work to roof over South West building, 19ft of plumbing solder

The Masters Lodge
29th January 1840 = 4ft of glass, New Leading (Bed room), Work putty ditto
15th April 1840 = Removing pump in kitchen, 10 ft of 2 in pump pipe to D. at 3, 2 joints to pump pipe
16th April 1840 = sheet lead to sink, old lead stench trap, 3 1/2 ft of 2 mil pipe to sink, Brass grate, Solder to D., 1 day 1 man labour to D.
21st April 1840 = 1 sq. of glass in study
23rd April 1840 = work to solder + to new link
16th June 1840= 3 sq. ft of glass in Butcher's Passage
12th July 1840 = 1 sq. ft. of glass in Kitchen
20th October 1840 = 1 piece of ground glass, two pieces (Study), 1 sq. of glass in bed room casement

The Chapel
Buttery Hall & Combination
College Kitchen
Courts
Masters Lodge

Bill from the Bursar of Jesus College to Robert Ellis, and receipt from Robert Ellis to the Bursar of Jesus College, for plumbing and glazing work for £32 11s 6d.

Paid to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing work.
Includes work done to the masters lodge (including servants lodgings, staircase, bedroom, scullery), the chapel, the kitchen and the courts.
Works include crown glass in porters lodge, crown glass in the kitchen, new box and leather to pump, combination room, crown glass lamp, new leading, painted glass, new bucket leather to pump, new leather to valve.

Paid £12 4s 2d to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing work around College. Including payments for:

Chapel - square glass

The Buttery, Hall and Combination Room - square of glass in south window by Fellows table, cleaning the combination room windows, cleaning all the Hall windows, square of glass to casement left side, squares of glass in the right side windows, square of glass in the north window by the fellows table,

Kitchen - a new hose to pump, plumbing solder to the pump, pipe to sink, brass grate to the sink, solder to thew sink, labour by a man, a plug for the kitchen sink, work filing an old pipe, squares of glass, kitchen pump new leather to bucket and box and work, mill lead on coppers, old lead returned, cleaning the windows, quarries of glass in scullery

The Master's Lodge - squares of glass in bedroom and nursery, nursery casement, passage to butlers pantry, milled lead around sink and pump, labour and men, nails, glass in Butler's pantry, old lead off lean to and sink

The Courts and Buildings - College Court pump new box and leather and bucket leather and work to pump, squares of glass to staircase F, new cistern and pump to back yard, pipe, joints to pipe, new box and leather and bucket leather, labour and men, old lead pump, squares of glass in porters lodge, squares of glass to porters gate lamp and repairing the same, squares of glass to Staircase A, quarries of glass to shoe place, glass to gas lamp, fellows stable pump new leather and work, sheet lead over Mr. Gaskin's room, milled lead flashing round chimney, nails, squares of glass to gas lamp in second Court, casement new leading on the Hall staircase, quarries of glass in Hall staircase, quarries of glass in knife place, squares of glass in staircase D broke by storm.

Jesus College to Robert Ellis
The Reverend Dr French, Bursar

1823
The Masters Lodge
March 8th - 1 square meter Crown Glass 12 by 9 - £0.2.3
April 16th - Ditto - £0.2.3, Ditto 12 by 10 - £0.2.6
May 8th - Ditto - £0.2.6, Ditto 12 by 9 - £0.2.3
May 27th - 2 Ditto 12 by 9 - £0.4.6
June 25th - 6 Ditto - £0.9.0
November 3rd - 2 by 1/2 feet of glass new leaded - £0.1.8, 2 square crown glass 9 and 9 - £0.2.6, 1 light pulleying £0.0.6
£1.9.11

1822
The Chapel
December 10th - 21 feet of glass new leaded - £0.14.0, 52 small squares at 3 each - £0.013.0, 1/2 day 2 men - £0.3.6
December 17th - The lead recasting of the lead - £0.1.6, 14 of solder - £0.16.4, 1 Day 2 Men - £0.7.0
£2.15.4

1823
The Kitchen
February 10th - 1 square corn glass 12x9 - £0.2.3
May 21st - New Bucket and leathers and work - £0.5.0
August 10th - New Box and Leather - £0.2.6
September 3rd - 3 feet of 2cm, Pipe to Sink at 2/6 - £0.7.6, Work on Grate -£0.1.6
October 10th - 1 foot of 1 1/2 cm. Pipe at 2 - £0.2.0, Work to Ditto - £0.1.0
October 23rd - 1"1"7 of sheet lead to sink - £2.4.7(1/2), 4 of solder at 1/2 - £0.4.8, grate - £0.1.6, 1 day work and man - £0.4.0
£4.4.1

1822
The Courts
December 10th - 2 1/2 feet glass leaded and prizing - £0.1.0, 4 squares crown glass - £0.2.8, 2 ditto 11+9 hall - £0.4.0
December 23rd - 31 of solder at 1/2 to the leads - £1.16.2, 1 day work 2 men - £0.7.0

1823
February 17th - 5 of solder to pump - £0.5.10, 1 2inch joint - £0.4.0, 3/4 of day 2 men - £0.5.3
March 22nd - 1 squaree crown glass 12+9 new building - £0.2.3
May 6th - 14 lead masons for cramping 32/01 - £0.4.1
August 6th - Cleaning Combination Windows - £0.2.0
August 13th - New pump 1"1"24 - £3.4.5, 2 2inch joints - £0.8.0, New bucket box and leathers - £0.7.0, 1 day work 2 men - £0.7.0
August 14th - New pump 1"1"17 stables - £3.1.8, 14 feet of 2 inch pipe at 3 foot - £2.2.0, 2 2inch joints - £0.8.0, Buck box and leathers - £0.7.0, 1 day work 2 men - £0.7.0
October 8th - Cleaning hall windows - £0.12.0
October 9th - Ditto combination room - £0.1.0, 1 square ground glass 9+9 new building - £0.2.6
October 14th - 7 squares crown glass in lamps - £0.7.6
October 16th - 1 ditto 12+9 staircase - £0.2.3
October 20th - 7 lead masons at 32/8 - £0.2.0(1/2), 12 square new building - £0.1.0
£16.1.6(1/2)
August 13th - old lead pump 1"0"21 at 2 - £1.13.3
£14.8.3(1/2)

The Masters Lodge - £1.9.11
The Chapel - £2.15.4
The Kitchen - £4.4.1
The Courts - £14.8.3(1/2)
Total - £22.17.7(1/2)

Attached piece of paper reads:
Cambridge 15th December 1823
Received by the Reverend Dr French Twenty two pounds seventeen shillings and 7p as per college bill delivered for plumbing and glazing.
Signed Robert Ellis, £22.17.7