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A bill for work done to the college between June and November 1784, includes: new lead to the masons in first court (6s 10 1/2d); crown glass for the kitchen (1s); a new 'clack' to the box on the pump in 'Tree Court' (1s 6d); repairing and replacing old glass in the kitchen (1s 1/4d); cleaning and unstopping a pipe in the first court (6d); old glass leading in the staircase in first court (2s 4d); solder and labour costs for maintaining the leads (£1 6s 8d and 4s); taking down, mending and cleaning pipes over the kitchen (2s 7 1/2d); repairing a pipe next to the Master's garden (6d); 1/2 days work on the lantern over the hall (2s 9d); 100 weight of 4 penny 'Clout Nails' (8d); new lead for the pipes in first court (£1 6s 5 1/2d); crown glass for the lamps (2s 11d); cleaning the windows of Mr Coppard's staircase (4d); glass for the Hall (5d); crown glass for the 'Low Rooms in the Cloysters' (£3 16s); new crown glass in broad lead and 'cemented' in the Hall (£10 16s); putty in the hall casements (9d); 'New Lead to Wings to pipe' (1s 8d); leading old glass in Cow Lane staircase (2s 3 3/4d); repairing old glass in the 'Buttris' (10d); 300 squares of crown glass for the upper and lower rooms in the Master's Lodge (£16 5s 4 1/2d); 320 squares of crown glass for the Master's Lodge (£16 5s 9d); crown glass for the library (16s 9d). The total bill amounted to £58 15s 10 1/2d. A receipt of payment, signed by Robert Painter, is attached to the bill with wax.

Consists of articles (one sent to Bronowski by the author, and annotated as such), with an envelope listing the reprints.

Paid to Neale £4 10s for 1800 ounces of silver plate.

Paid £4 10s to Neale for 1800oz of silver plate.

Paid to Neale by the Master of the Fellows of Jesus College £4 10s for 1800 ounces of silver plate for one year.

Paid £4 10s as the plate tax for 1800 ounces of silver plate for one year. Received by Neale.

Paid £4 10s for 1,800oz of silver plate for one year's plate tax. Received by Neale.

Paid £4 10s plate tax for 1,800 ounces of silver plate. Signed by Neale.

Received £4 10s of the Master and fellows of Jesus College in the Parish of All Saints for 1800 ounces of silver plate, of which they have this day given notice according to the statute of the 29th year of his late majesty in full for one year ending on the 5th day of July next ensuing.

Signed by J. Neale.

Paid 8s 6d to Luke Batten for mending a candlestick and a pair of snuffers.

Plastic reusable hot drinks cup in College colours and bearing the College crest, College name and College website address.

1813. Costs include: repairing Master's garden wall and job; cleaning and mending plastering to ceiling at same; to measuring and levelling out the ground for buildings at King's Street and attending at different times.

1814. Costs include: repairing tops of chimneys; repairing Porters' fireplace and work to chimney tops; repairing walls by Porters and front gate and other jobs about College; bricklayer and labourer 3 1/2 days; hods of mortar, bricks, tiles; making good wall to irons and bell wire; repairing a drain and paving in walk by bogs; fixing stoves and cleaning and repairing furnaces to hot plate in College kitchen; bricklayer and labourer 2 days; hods of brick mortar, hods of hair; bricks and lime; mending kitchen floor, work to chimney and jobs at Master's Lodge; bricklayer and labourer 6 days; hods of brick mortar and hods of putty; pavements and paving bricks; scraping, washing and repairing walls and ceilings at Master's lodge; plasterer, labourers 7 1/2 days each; mortar and plaster; plasterers and labourers 6 1/2 days each; hair mortar and hods of fine stuff; plaster, bundle of fir lasts and nails; bricklayer and labourer 4 1/2 days; hods of brick mortar and hods of hair; bricks, fire bricks and tiles; bricklayer and labourer 5 1/2 days; hods of brick mortar, hods of hair and fire bricks; plasterers and labourers 6 days each; hods of hair mortar and hods of fine stuff; bundles of fire lath and nails; yards of whitewashing two and three times over to walls and ceilings; yards of blue and yellow colour twice in size; yards of lathing and plastering in bed room; opening, cleaning, emptying and washing [...] and drain from the kitchen to the pond and mending dung hill and paving coal place floor and jobs; bricklayer and labourer 7 days; labourer 4 days each; hods of mortar, bricks and load of land; bricklayer and labourer 4 days; hods of hair mortar and hod of fine stuff; bundle of fir lath and nails; contracting chimney in Combination Room; bricklayer and labourer 3 days; hods of mortar and hods of hair; bricks and large slates; finishing work at the Lodge, bricklayer and labourer 3 days; hods of brick mortar and hods of hair; large pavements and slates; mending and whitewashing College bogs; mending and whitewashing College Buttery bogs; plasterer and labourer 1 day, mortar and plaster; yards of whitewashing twice in size; dusting ante chapel; bricklayers and labourers 2 days each; mending and whitewashing staircases; bricklayer and labourer 4 days; hods of hair mortar and rods of fine stuff; bundle of fir lath and nails; whitening and size.

Total: £ 82 2s 2d (work to College buildings £29 11s 1d; work at Master's Lodge £51 7s 6d; work at College Kitchen £1 3s 7d).
Initialled WP.

14th January 1815. Received of the Revd Mr Hustler £82 2s 2d as per accounts. Signed by David Bradwell.

Paid £55 1s 9d to the plasterer for work done in the College kitchens. including payment for laborers and bricklayers for their work on chimneys, lime, sand, bricks, slates, plastering and whitewashing, hair mortar, contracting chimney, and fixing smoke jack, carrying up separate flues in other chimney, new fixing range and making good floor, fixing copper stoves, hotplate, two ovens, and pavements, large blue slates.

Alfred Place, Bedford Square 18th December 1816.

"Sir, In the absence of my father, I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter containing an order on [...] Hoare [...] for £70 on account of the work done at Jesus College, for which I feel much obliged. I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant."
Signed F? Bernasconi.

Paid £102 3s 5d to the plasterer for work done to the outside of the Chapel. Includes payments for scaffolding, cutting off old stucco, dubbing out and nailing old church walls, payments to bricklayers and labourers, staining and jointing parapets, preparing stonework, lime and sand, dubbing out decayed clunch work, nails, scaffolding to the tower, stuccoing the north part of the Chapel, stucco and jointing, mouldings to windows, circular mouldings to windows.

Paid by Mrs Bell (14 St Edward's Passage) to G. Cook for repairing ceiling in sitting room. 2 pails of lime and hair, 1/2 bush plaster, 8 laths with nails (total: £1 2s 9d)

Bill for several bunches of lime between April 135h and September 9th, for £2 9d 7s, paid by C. Deeks to William Latham. Back signed by Deeks.

Four deep picture frames containing numerous plaster cast medallions showing classical images, scenes and figures. Each medallion appears to be numbered, the numbers, presumably, once relating to a list. Historic photographs suggest that at one time these hung in the SCR.

Bundle of correspondence between Bernard Manning, Bursar of the College, and W. Dawson of the University of Cambridge School of Forestry concerning maintenance of trees in the College Grove. Includes notes relating to removal and pruning of trees, their replacement with new trees and suggestions of which varieties, purchase of new trees including elm, poplar, oak, ash and birch from Dickson Nurseries Ltd, Chester, notes on trees purchased from Hillier and Sons of Winchester.

January 1816, Thomas Hanes for planting quick and cutting off lichen at Jesus College.
£2 5s, paid 10th February 1816.

Agreement with William Mudd for preparing and planting the grove with plants including horse chestnuts, forest trees, larch and firs, 23rd November 1870. With draft plan for tree planting scheme; Agreement with C. J. Harper to fence the plantations of the Grove with larch fencing "4 feet in height, with 2 rails, & one prickport between every two principal posts; the principal post to be two feet in the ground", 30th November 1870; An estimate from W. Seymour and Sons of 67 St. Andrews St to build 70 yards of fence, 23rd October 1884

Plans, sections and elevation sketches drawn in pencil. Scale: 1/8" Scale Plan

Discussion of enlarging the old church (1848) , and an alternative suggestion (1852) of replacing it with a new church on Jesus Lane.

Shaded colour pencil sketches of wall detail plan

Shows the following pen and ink drawings:
(1) Longitudinal section of workshop
(2) Front elevation of workshop [marked Cambridge Carving Works Rattee Builder]
(3) Plan of carved floor
(4) Transverse section of workshop
(5) Front elevation of dwelling house
(6) Chamber plan of dwelling house

Map of Butt Close, King Street and Jesus Lane. Includes lots to let contiguous to Wall's Lane and lots to let contiguous to Turnpike Road

Plans for a new W. C. at 33 New Square for Mr T. Askham. Shows elevation, site of W. C. and section A-B

Bill from J. Webster to the Masters and the Fellows of Jesus College for the measuring and marking out of ground plans of three hourses in Gravel Close. Total of £7.

Pencil drawings of an outbuilding behind Nos. 41-44 Lower Park Street. The drawings show a plan of the building; site location; sections; and NW elevation. Scale: 1/8" = 1 ft

Letter from John Burder, for the Bishop of Ely, setting our proposals for raising money to build a vicarage. Refers to a report, plans etc,. Which are not enclosed.

Comprises: outlines of the project and lectures (as part of the project); a memorandum on the formation of study groups; a paper on 'The Structure of Values in Science and the Arts: A Humanistic Study at the Salk Institute' (research proposal); copies of articles by Gunther Stent and others (some sent to Bronowski by Edwin Lennox); and a draft budget, summary of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs grant status (1975-75) and a memorandum on a possible funding source for the seminar project.

Also includes a copy of a letter from Bronowski to Katherine King (New York State Education Department) on Bronowski's plans as Educator-in-Residence in the Education Department for 1975/76.

Site plans of College.

Drawings showing various designs for the Mander organ and a plan of a new organ loft to be built to accommodate the new organ.

Includes three drawings of the organ formerly in the west end of the nave of the Chapel by Rattee and Kett. Some with sections of columns and mouldings on reverse.

Consists of draft pages of a planned Anthology of Experiments in Physics by Bronowski and Roger Partington.

Blue print and tracing of new heater for College Chapel showing plan of chapel with suggested location, dimensions of heater, image of heater and section through heater.

One plan drawing in black ink and dark blue shading for wall fill. One circulation space outlined in orange.

Plan showing the outlines of Nos. 19-24 Jesus Lane and giving their dimensions