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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

Paid £19 10s 3d to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing work from 1828-1829. Including fixing the leads on the college roofs, crown glass and lamps for staircases and bedrooms, new basin for water closet in the Master's Lodge, lights mending and putting in, crown glass for the bedroom and nursery there, work done in the Hall and Combination room such as cleaning windows, crown glass and repairing the pump in the Kitchen, glass lamps, guttering, new lead, new wall hooks in the Porter's Lodge, pump in court repairing and new leather to bucket box for backyard pump, work done at the Crown (Inn) in Jesus Lane, etc.
Signed Robert Ellis

Paid £11 1d to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing in College. Includes payments for crown glass, repairing a lamp, mild leadwork, copper, solder for work done at the Master's Lodge and value of old lead he took away; glass new leaded, small squares of glass, crown glass in the Chapel; squares of crown glass, new bucket and leathers to pump and work to them in the kitchen; cleaning Combination Room windows; square glass for staircase A, crown glass for staircase B, sheet lead flashings to chimneys, 6ft of 3w inch wallpipe, two men repairing pipeheads etc, solder to leads, nails, square glass, buttress, pieces of lead on lamp ironwork, cleaning the Hall windows, repairing glass, 5ft of glass repaired on Hall staircase, square glass for cow lane.

£18 8s. 0d.
Bill for plumbing and glazing the chapel, the hall and combination room, the kitchen, the courts and the masters lodge

Invoice from Jesus College to Robert Ellis for plumbing and glazing work done to the college between July 19 1831 and Oct 6 1832. Includes installing piping in the chapel, cleaning and repairing glass in the hall, buttery and combination room, installing lead pipe and grate to sink in kitchen, mending and maintaining glass laps in the courts, installing lead sheets and wall piping in the cloisters, repairing the pump ihe Master's Lodge, repairing the garden pump. Total of £8 9s 4d.

Receipt recived of the Rev De French the sum of £8 9s 4d as per college bill for plumbing and glazing work. Signed Robert Ellis & Son.

Invoice from Robert Ellis to Jesus College for plumbing and glazing work done in the college from 14th of December 1830 to 27th of Octover 1831. Includes cleaning windows, painting glass, gas lamps, repairing the pump, repairing the water closet, repairing valves. Total of £10 6s 9d.

Receipt recieved of the Revd Dr French the sum of £10 6s 9d as per college bill for plumbing and glazing work. Signed Robert Ellis.

Receipt for plumbing work done to the college. Includes cost of laying on water from the Water Company main to all the staircases, buttery and kitchen. Also includes cost of stop and bib taps, iron boxes, lead sinks and flashings, lead pipes, waste pipes and grates. Total cost £81 10s and dated 28th November [? date written over top of another month] 1865.

Receipt for £2 16s 0d addressed to Mr Bond for providing and fixing piping and providing a flushing cistern on Fitzroy Street. Paid on 26th February

Receipt for plumbing work done by Favell and Ellis. Items billed include: laying [?] on the water from the front gate to the water closets including all lead pipes; cocks; water meter; plumbers labour and bricklayers in opening the ground and repouring as per estimate; estimate for iron pipes; hydrant from the front gate to the middle of the court. Amount totals £38 5s. Work done on 3rd November 1855. Signed by Robert Ellis.

Receipt addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College, Cambridge from George C. Smith, Plumber, Decorator and General House Repairer
For work done on:
East House Greenhouse
Summer House Fellows' Garden
Entrance Gates
The Gun
Mr Duke's Rooms

Total: £44; 2s; 6d

Receipt for plumbing and other work to the college. Work to the college chapel: re-leading one window light, including adding 27 glass quarries and fixing in the light. Refixing and unstopping rainwater pipe in South Transept; unstopping rainwater pipe next to the Close. Fixing and puttying the window light. To the chapel tower: setting up lead work for masons to the parapet and making good again; making three small lead lights to go over tower doors; work to apron under and flashing over clock.

Work to the Hall, Combination Room and Buttery: repairing the window in the Buttery cellar with 4 glass quarries; cleaning windows in the Combination Room and Hall.

Work to the College Kitchens: fixing patent ventilators with pulleys, cords and screws, re-leading and puttying two window lights over the ventilator door. Regrinding and regulating ball tap; one square of glass in the Larder and one in the kitchen; new valve to ball tap over stoves; cleaning all windows; one square of sheet glass in ventilator.

Work to the courts and buildings: cleaning out all the gutters; one sidepane to the court gas lamp. One front and three top panes of glass to E. staircase lamp and repairing tinwork. Mending rain waterpipe next to Master's garden. Two squares of glass to Shoe Place; unstopping and correcting Fellows' and Servants' water closets. One square of glass to Lecture Room C; cleaning windows in Lecture Room next to Hall. Correcting apparatus in Servants' water closet; thawing pump and closets and correcting mass chain to Fellow's water closets. One square of glass to E. landing. Thawing a number of pipes over the winter. Cleaning windows in School Room. Cleaning snow out of gutters. Cleaning windows in Lecture Room D. Work to water closets after frost: fixing two new white basins; fixing roof with lead; two new valve leathers; thawing closets. One square of glass to School Room, Servant's Hall, Library and Lecture Room D. New joint to tin work, two side panes and one bottom pane to the Gate gas lamp. Glass for the staircase lamps. Work to Fellows and Servants water closets, including new vales and balls. New square of glass for the Lecture Hall. More work to water closets after frost damage. More glass to lamps and staircases, cleaning windows in Boys School. Repairing rain water pipe next to the Close. Repairing windows in Mr King's room, which were cracked and letting in rain. Mending pipe in Porters' Lodge that was broken by the carpenters. Work to the urinal in the Porters' Lodge. More glass, window cleaning. Soldering cracks in the roof over the Porters' Lodge. Fixing windows in the staircase next to the chapel. More work to water closets. Laying sheet lead onto the roof over staircase A. 1st Court; soldering cracks in the roof next to the close. Unstopping rainwater pipes next the close.

In the Master's Lodge: repairing ball tap and other work to the garden water closet.

Also includes an abstract which lists the cost broken down by work to the chapel; the Buttery, Hall and Combination Room; the Kitchen; the courts, rooms and buildings; the Master's Lodge. Total payment £28 2s 1d. Dated 28th November 1965 and signed by Favell and Ellis.

Receipt addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College, Cambridge from George C. Smith, Plumber, Decorator and General House Repairer

For work done on 5, 6, 16, 17, 18 and 25 Malcolm Street
6, 7 Jesus Terrace
3-9 Portland Place

Total: £117; 15s; 3d

Paid £38 10s 9 3/4d to Robert Painter. For: glass, casting and weights, taking up old lead, new lead, solder to leads and labour.

Paid £1 3s 2 1/4d to Robert Painter. For: glass, new lead for flashes, labour, putting up and taking down lamps.

Bill for plumbing and glazing work done by Favell & Ellis. Work done between 3 November 1855 and 24 October 1856 to: courts and buildings, chapel, College hall and combination room, and kitchen. Items billed for courts and buildings include: 1 square of glass in landing window 1st Court D; To the lead roof over the combination room and roof over the porter's lodge building labour 2 days 2 men to repairing and soldering leadwork; 39 lbs of plumbers solder to all the work; To school room repairing leadwork– 3 small squares of glass 1/6 1 large pane 2/3; To window in H stair case; 10 3/4 ft new leading the glass and cementing; 1 casement repairing leadwork; 4 ft 4 in of glass releading and cementing; 32 quarries of glass to ditto; 3 iron bars and putty to casement and lights; Work taking out window and refixing; 2 sides of glass in gas lamp and work; Work 2 men attending to all the water closets during the frost and pumps; Work two men 3/4 of a day correcting closets 5/7 copper wire. Brass screw & joints; New white bason with copper font[?] & screws; 1 square of glass to gas lamp (over gateway); Work 2 men attending to the water closets during the frost and correcting after- 1 1/2 days 1 plumber & labour, copper wire; 3/4 day 1 plumber; To roof over Mr Westmorland, 3 lb of solder; 1/2 a day 1 plumber & labourer; gas lamps 1st court 3 squares of glass; To roof over Porters Lodge work 2 days 2 men soldering & repairing lead work; milled lead to ridge & parapet; 11 1/2 lb of plumbing solder, hooks & nails; Gas lamp 1 side square of glass; 1 square of glass to mending window Pump staircase; Work 1/2 day 1 plumber & labour to unstopping rain water pipe in 3rd court & carting mormire [?] from pumps; Porters Knife Place 1 square of glass; To yard by servants closets 19 1/2 feet of 3/4 pipe; bromoled [?] from cistern to urinal; Stop cock with spanner, pipe hooks & nails; Solder to 4 joints; 2 ft of 1/2 in pipe; 22 lb of lead flashing; Labour to fitting up & fixing 2 1/4 days 1 man & labour; 1 square of glass to landing window Cr 1st Court; To gas lamp 3rd Court 5 panes of glass & work; To cleaning out all the roof gutters & leads; To gas lamp 1st court 1 pane & 1 pane over gateway; 3 panes of glass to D & F staircase & servants hall; To stable yard pump new leathers & work; 1 square of glass in Porters Lodge & 1 in stair case; To gas lamp 3rd court 1 side square of glass; To closets 1 new brass valve & [?] with screws; Solder to 2 joints, copper wire; Work 1/4 day 1 plumber & labour to ditto & correcting [?]; 1 square of glass to landing window A staircase; To roof gutter over the lodge bedroom & passage, 1 piece of lead, 9 lb of plumbers solder, Labour 1 day 2 men to ditto; Labour 3/4 of a day 2 men to cleaning out all the gutters & pipes; 3 squares of glass D & E staircase & Shoe Place; Work to cleaning out Cloyster [sic] gutters; To gas lamp 1st in the Cloysters [sic] 1 side glass; Ditto 1st Court 1 Top square of glass. Items billed for chapel include: 1 square of glass 12"x11" to north lancet windows & puttying lights; To roof & gutters on the tower 1 day 2 men; 12 lb of plumbing solder to mending gutters & leadwork; Work 1/2 day 2 men; 7 lb of solder; 1 square of glass & work to lancet windows; To side isle [sic] new stained glass fixing in; 3/4 of a day 2 men; 2 iron bars copper bands etc.; To south transept window. part blown in; 8 1/2 ft releading & cementing, 26 quarries; Work 1/2 a day 2 men with ladders fixing [?] etc.; 1/4 of a day 2 men cleaning gutters to roof & side isle [sic]; To side isle [sic] new stained glass window 3/4 - 2 men; 6 brass bars, copper bands & solder. Items billed for hall and combination room include: To the Hall Oriel window 2 lights releading; 8 ft of glass, cementing; releading cock & scroll; work taking out & refixing; 6 squares of glass to ditto; 4 lights releading & cementing; releading stained glass; work taking out & fix; 6 squares of glass in ditto; Cleaning windows after pointing & soldering bands; 1 square of glass & work in hall; To cleaning the Combination Room & Gyp Room windows; 3 squares of glass in Buttery; Combination Room 1 square of flashed glass 22x15 & work; Hall 2 squares of glass & repairing leadwork; To cleaning all the windows; To Cupola Vane. 3/4 1 man with ladders assisting the whitesmith taking down to repair and refixing again. Items billed for kitchen include: 2 quarries lights releading & cementing 8 1/2 lb; 18 quarries, work taking out & fixing in; 1 casement releading & fixing in iron frames; quarries, work stopping in quarries to light; Mending leadwork to coppers, 1 man & labour; 1 lb of solder, 3 lb of lead; labour 1 1/2 days 1 plumber & labour taking old lead off copper and relaying new; To cleaning all the kitchen & larder windows. Amount totals £26 17s 10d. Signed by Robert Ellis.

Paid to Robert Painter £26 9s 3 3/4d. For lead, solder, clap and workmen.

Bill for plumbing work undertaken at the college over a year, addressed to the Bursar of Jesus College and paid to Favell and Ellis, Plumbers etc. Total payment of £21 4s 7d. Includes payment for cleaning out gutters; laying and repairing leadwork on college chapel roof and cost of cast lead (minus the credit for the old lead). Also for relaying flashing in the hall cupola, including cost of nails; cleaning windows in combination room and college hall; repairing windows in the buttery, including cost of glass, putty, casement pinning, banding and iron frame. Also for the college kitchens: releading and cementing window casement, including cost of casement, pinning, putty, banding and glass; putting a new valve on the ball tap; cleaning windows. For the college rooms and buildings: repairing window to lecture room number 3 after being broken by wind; new glass in windows of late Palmer's rooms; relaying lead and soldiering to roof over A and B staircase after storms; cleaning gutters; repairing roof over I staircase and stopping leaks; new glass in Porter's Lodge; lead flashing and soldering over I staircase and room of north west building; thawing pumps and packing in manure; repairing closets after frost, including new lead pipe (minus credit of old pipe), ball tap, copper ball, solder, copper wire and leather valve; new valves to garden pump; repairing landing windows; cleaning windows in school room, lecture rooms and servants hall; repairing pipes to servants closets; repairing back yard pump; relaying lead and soldering on roof of staircase B; putting new glass in lamp over front gate; taking up servants' closets for bricklayers to make a drain; new white basin in servants' closet; glazing new sash in Oldham, Edward, Corfield and Fleetwood's rooms; lead gutters over cloisters; new glass in porter's lodge and staircase L. Also includes abstract where the totals for the chapel; buttery, hall and combination room; college kitchens; courts, rooms and buildings are totalled. Dated 14th November 1864 and signed by H. W. Ellis for Favell and Ellis.

Bill from Favell Ellis & Kirkman, Sanitary Engineers, Decorators &c. addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College.

Jan
1st: To account rendered (£111; 9s; 10d)
22nd: 2 new square glass (14s; 4d)
29th: Chapel; Repairing 2 W.C. cisterns, fitting and fixing new copper ball, oiling and regulating (£2; 9s)
Buttery; Putting in new square of R plate glass (3s; 8d)

February
5th: East House; Cutting out leaking pipe over housemaids sink; preparing and fixing new, and repairing tap. Repairing cistern to W.C. in Bathroom, oiling and regulating. (£6; 10s; 6d)
Opening ground next to back yard wall, finding water pipe, cutting off and blanking (11s)
12th: East House; Fixing new cistern to servant’s W.C. as per estimate (£5; 17s; 6d)

Page carried forward (£127; 15s; 10d)

12th: To 2nd Court Student’s W.C.s; Disconnecting vacuum, flushing cistern taking to pieces, cleaning, painting inside and out, repairing copper cylinder and ball valve, re-fitting and re-fixing (£3; 15s; 4d)

19th: Chapel Court archway lamp; 2 new squares of glass (7s; 6d)
Cloister lamp; 1 new square of glass (5s; 3d)
Porter’s Lodge; 2 new square glass (7s; 4d)
Buttery; 3 new squares of R plate and 1 new square of clear class (14s; 7d)
VI Chapel Court Gibling and Adams; new square of glass (3s; 6d)
26th: V and VI Chapel Court; Opening ground, cutting away brickwork, cutting out stop tapes and burst water pipe, preparing new pipe re-trimming, repairing and re-fixing stop taps and draining taps, fixing new pipe, making good brickwork (£7; 17s; 6d)

March
19th: Chapel Court; Exterior painting as per estimate (£136)
Buttery; new square R plate in door (12s; 5d)

Page carried forward (£277; 19s; 3d)

19th: North House; Repairing lead lined pantry sink (12s; 7d)
24th: II Chapel Court; Hamilton 1 new square glass, Allison 2 new square glass (5s; 3d)

April
2nd: I, III, IV and VI Chapel Court; putting in new sash cords (£2; 3s)
16th: IV Chapel Court; New square glass on staircase (3s; 4d)
30th M. Mr Charlesworth K. R.; 2 new squares glass, 1 new circular head (£1; 3s; 3d)
P. Storey K.R.; new square glass (6s; 4d)

Final total of (£282; 13s)

Added notes:
2nd October 1920: Mr Mannering K.R.; Papering pantry (£18; 18s)

Updated total (£301; 11s)

Favell Ellis & Kirkman, Sanitary Engineers, Decorators &c. Bill addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College

1920
Oct 2: K Room. Washing, stopping and distempering ceiling. Stripping, preparing and re-papering walls. Cleaning and varnishing woodwork. Staining and varnishing floor (£18; 18s)

1921
June 30: For Mr Whitley; Decorating (£24;6s)

July 7: O. Mr Pars; Decorating (£13;18)

Aug 4: Taking down wood dresser and casing in G. R. Cutting out burst pipe, preparing and fixing new pipe, and making all good (£2; 4s; 6d)
Glazing: C 2 new squares; L 5 new squares; O 1 new square; Hall stairs 1 new square;
Chapel Court II 1 new square; Waterhouse Bld 11 new squares (£1; 6s; 3d)

Aug 11: Chapel Court IV reparing lead sink. Chapel Court V Repairing WC cistern (18s; 9d)

Sep 29: Students WCs 2nd Court. Taking down casings, taking out 2 defective WC cisterns, blanking supplies, taking cisterns to pieces, cleaning, painting inside and out, repairing, re-fitting, and re-fixing making good casings etc. Repairing valves to other cisterns oiling and regulating (£5; 16s; 6d)
Chapel Court V. Repairing cistern to WC top floor (10s; 3d)

Oct 6: Men-servants’ WCs. Repairing cistern and searching for leakage. 0. (16s; 6d)

Final total: £68; 14s; 9d

Cheque paid October 20ths 1921

Payment of £27 17s 10d to Shallow and Coleman for plumbing to the college. Includes payments for glass quarries for the college chapel, glass and quarries for the Buttery and college hall, glass for gas lamps; new building; hall stair case; Porter's Lodge; the empty room taken by G. Walker; the library and shoe place; Layton's rooms; late Armstrong's room, window cleaning in the Combination Room and kitchen, lead, bell gate and trap for the Buttery, repairs to the lead in the college kitchen, work to new stove cisterns in the kitchen, new lead for kitchen sink, work to kitchen boiler, work to court pump, work to water closets, work to late Gibson's room, cleaning chapel roof and gutters, cleaning school room and lecture room windows, work to pump in back yard, repairing scullery window and plumbing work to the Master's Lodge. Includes payments for plumbing solder, lead pipe, iron rod, copper wire, putty, ball levers and screws. Signed by H. M. Ellis.

Bill from Favell Ellis & Kirkman, Sanitary Engineers, Decorators &c. addressed to the Bursar, Jesus College.

October:
2nd: K.R; Washing, stopping and distempering ceiling. Stripping, preparing and re-papering walls. Cleaning and varnishing woodwork. Staining and varnishing floor. (£18; 18s)

Added to accounts: (£18; 18s)

23rd: Fellows Garden; new square of glass in greenhouse (6s; 6d)
East House; Opening ground in garden, cutting away concrete, cutting out burst water pipe, preparing and putting in new, repairing and repacking stop tap. Repainting draw-off and draining taps, making good brickwork to stop tap, making good cement etc. (£9; 2s; 6d)
30th: East House; Exterior painting (£73; 10s)
D. Staircase; New square glass (5s; 3d)

November
4th: III Chapel Court; Repairing W.C. cistern
Waterhouse building; cutting away brickwork, repairing sink waste and making good
V Chapel Court; Cutting out broken stop closet, preparing and fixing new basins, making good brickwork.
Fellows W.C.; repairing cracked W.C. basin
Stop taps in ground; Repairing and re-packing of taps (£9; 7s; 3d)
6th: East House; new glass in kitchen and bedroom (7s; 8d)
13th: East House; repairing entrance gates (£3; 7s; 9d)
20th: N. Mr Manning; 1 new square of glass (7s; 6d)
C. Lecture Room; 1 new square of glass (£4; 10s)
C. Stairs; 1 new square of glass (£4; 10s)
27th: East House; Repairing fruit store and gate to Tennis Court (12s; 9d)
Knocking up and stopping temporarily burst in stop tap boy supplying V. VI. Chapel Court (12s; 3d)

December:
11th: V and VI Chapel Court K and B
Repairs to pipe. Cutting away wall, repairing burst pipe, supplying sinks, repairing tap and making good. Taking down top floor W.C. seat and casings, cutting through partition, cutting out burst pipe, preparing and fixing new, repairing tap, re-fixing casings and making all good.
B; taking down casings, repairing burst in Student’s bedroom and making good (£10; 11s; 6d)
24th: North House; Cutting out burst pipe to servants W.C. preparing and fixing new, repairing, oiling and regulating cisterns (£1; 12s)

31st: Master’s Lodge; Taking down casings and part of floor near housemaid’s sink on back staircase landing, cleaning out trap in wall and waste pipe and flushing. (17s; 3d)

Final total (£111; 9s; 10d)

Receipt by Favell. Ellis & Kirkman (sanitary engineers, plumbers, painters, decorators) to B.L. Manning Bursar of Jesus College: Received enclosed with thanks

Quote given upon request of B. L. Manning [Bursar of Jesus College] by Favell. Ellis & Kirkman (sanitary engineers, plumbers, painters, decorators) for supplying and fixing new cistern to servant's W.C. (£5 17s 6d)

For 2 Park Street for repairing water taps and putting a new rubber washer (1s 6d). Handwritten on postcard

For supplying and fixing new ball tap to WC cistern, supplying new brass ferrule and making new grant (16s 6p)

Chapel:
South End windows new glass and leading, roof of Chapel, sheet lead on Tower door, repairing and soldering lead on Tower.
Buttery and Combination Room:
New leading casement window by Fellows Table, panes of glass, cleaning Combination Room & Hall windows.
Kitchen:
Panes, cleaning windows.
Courts:
Court pump new box and hooks, work on roof over lodge including plumbing, soldering. Glass for Chapel staircase, Fellows Closet, Staircase A, for a gas lamp. Fellows stable pump new leather box.
Glass for cloisters gas lamp, First Court, New Building staircase, Pump staircase, Porters' Lodge, "2 men to roof over Mr Gaskin's rooms", repair to pump at Crown Inn "damaged by men working for the College". Repairs to lead roof, lead sheeting for gutters to closets, glass for Porters' lodge and for lamps.
The Master's Lodge:
Glass for back landing door, Butler's room, pantry, dressing room, nursery, new leathers for kitchen pump, glass for servants' room, dressing room, , repairs to lead flashing of sink, to coppers and pump.
Chapel £6 0s 4d
Buttery & Hall £1 15s 0d
College Kitchen £9 0s 0d
Courts &tc £10 4s 4d
Master's Lodge £6 3s 10d

Total £24 12s 6d

A bill for work done to the college between December 1743 and March 1784, which includes: solder for leading the copper in the kitchen (2s 11d); labour costs; 2 squares of crown glass to go under the stairs [unspecified] (2s); repairing old glass and fitting new crown glass on Mr Coppard's stairs (1s 10d); leading old glass (2s 6d) and repairing old glass on 'Cowlain' stairs; repairing old glass (6s 6d) and fitting new glass (5s 2 1/2d) in the chapel; cleaning windows (1s) and 2 squares of crown glass (7s 2d) for the Combination room; leading old glass (1s 4d) and fitting new glass (1s 9d) in the Clock room; 3 square of crown glass for the 'Buttris' (1s 6d); new lead for the sash windows in Mr Smith's room (7s 8 1/2d). The total bill amounted to £11 12s 1 3/4d. A receipt for the payment, signed by Robert Painter, is attached to bill with wax.

A bill for work done to the college between April and June 1784, includes: solder for the leads (£1 7s 11d, 17s 6d) and labour costs; new lead 'to Masons' in the first court (6s 10 1/2d); 1 square of crown glass in Mr. Friends room (7d); labour costs for taking down and putting up pipes over the cloister (2s). Total bill amounted to £5 8s 7d and was signed by Robert Painter on the 4th December 1784.

A bill for work done to the college between October and November 1743, which includes: repairing old glass in the Porter's Lodge (1s 2d); 1 square of Crown glass (2s); solder for the lead (£1 4s 7d) and labour costs (4s); 20 squares of crown glass (19s 4 1/2d), lead for old glass (2s 11d) and putty (3d) in the 'Low Room Next the Close'; 12 squares of common glass (7s 6d), solder (£1 2s 11d) and labour costs (4s) for work to the lantern over the hall; new square common glass (2s 6d), old glass leading (1s 8d); 2 square of common glass (1s) for Castley's room; new square common glass for the 'Low Rooms in Cloysters' (1s); 26 squares of common glass (10s 10d) and putty for the sashes and 'spriggs' (6s 6d) and labour costs for the lantern over the hall; new leather for the bucket and 'clack' to box the pump (2s 6d) in the 'Free' Court. Total bill amounted to £7 9s 9 1/2d, and was signed by Robert Painter.