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Comprises a duplicate audio recording of part of Bronowski's fifth Silliman Memorial lecture on 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' (given 7 November 1967), 33 minutes long.

Comprises a duplicate audio recording of part of Bronowski's fifth Silliman Memorial lecture on 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' (given 7 November 1967), 28 minutes long.

Comprises correspondence with Professor Ervin Laszlo (Editor, The Philosophy Forum) on Bronowski reading and giving feedback on Laszlo's writings including: 'The Ideal Scientific Theory: A Thought Experiment', 'A General Systems View of Evolution and Invariance' (enclosed) and 'A Strategy for the Future'. Laszlo's work related to Bronowski's writings on "stratified stability".

"Es ist ein Ros entsprungen..." [incipit] for voice in E major.

Sent to Bronowski by the author, with an envelope listing the article.

Comprises correspondence with Professor Reuben A Brower (department of English, Harvard University) and I A Richards on Bronowski writing an essay on Richards for a volume of essays in his honour. Bronowski missed the deadline and so did not contribute an essay.

Also includes handwritten notes for the essay.

Mainly comprises correspondence with Paul Schlipp (editor, Library of Living Philosophers) and Eugene Freeman (Open Court Publishing Company) on: Bronowski agreeing to write 'Humanism and the Growth of Knowledge' for a volume on 'The Philosophy of Karl Popper', instructions to contributors, corrections and proofs, the publication of the volume, and ordering reprints of Bronowski's essay and copies of the whole volume.

Includes a list of Karl Popper's publications, a list of contributors, a typescript of Bronowski's essay (1967) with a few corrections noted, draft footnotes for the article, and copies of proofs sent to Bronowski for checking.

Also includes letters to Karl Popper, Morton White (Department of Philosophy, Harvard University), Alfred Tarski (Math Department, University of California at Berkeley), Jerzy Neyman (Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley), Majorie Grene (Department of Philosophy, University of California at Davis), and Henryk Skolimowski (University of Southern California, School of Philosophy) on sending them copies of Bronowski's essay 'Humanism and the Growth of Knowledge'.

Correspondence about the purchase by the College

Paid to William Bright for the administrative work. Work includes postage of letter from Crompton Newton & Co inclosing draft from £100 (1 year of estate at Allenborough) and writing to them to acknowledge the receipt thereof. Also for drawing notice to quit and two copies to serve on for Mrs Foster and Edward Walker.

£3 3s 0d for Estimate in Estates on King St.
Buck Green

Estimation of the casual value of estates including (Jan 1829): The Cock public house Barnwell, Yorks Estate, Barnes Estate St Andrews Street, Sparrow Estate Jesus Lane, Curtis Estate Rhadegund Building, JC Cotton Rhadegund Building, J Bullock Rhadegund Building, Haslam Rhadegund Building, (?) Collins Rhadegund Building, John Westworth Rhadegund Building, Newby Estate Kings Street. Each estimation 10s 6d. Total of £6 16s 6d.

Invoice of Elliot Smith to Jesus College for work at Combination (Sep 1830), repairing the dining table, estimating the value of Turner's estate at Barnwell, (deferred on last account) estimating the value of Collins' estate, John Wentworth's estate and York estate in Kings St. Total of £2 2s.

Receipt of payment to Jesus College from Elliot Smith (Dec 11 1830) the sum of £2 17s 6d. Signed by Elliot Smith.

Two houses with very small gardens behind them occupied by Hutton and Abbot. Annual Value £26

Letter from Edwin Green to Reverend Dr. French reporting that he has sent the following estate payments and property costs including:

Estate money from Mr. Pearce, D Brooke, J Archer, £39 13s

Also discusses need to pay coal lease.

Signed Edwin Green

Bill for various repairs costing £16 2s 6d, including: repairing tiling to cottages (including mortar, tiles, and wages for bricklayer and labourer); building scaffold at gable end of house to take off and replace old plaster (including nails, lathe, hair mortar, rubbish carting, wages for labourer, plasterer, and scaffolder); repairs to window frame; raise ladders and repair tiling etc at Holdens' (incl tiles, mortar, cement, and wages for bricklayer and labourer); repair and rehang door at 67 King Street; repair shutters and bedroom floor and fix weather board to front door and repair tiling to both houses (incl labour, lime, tiles, hair mortar, deal, nails); take up floor and make good brickwork in Sturton's house (incl labour, cement, bricks). In Boning's and Holdens' houses, raise ladders and replace old chimney pots with new ones (incl labour, chimney pots, hods, hair mortar, cement); repair floor at 10 Manor Street (incl floorboards, nails, deal, labour); work to chimneys, hearth, and stove etc.; repair tiling in 42 Jesus Lane (incl labour, hods, blue mortar, tiles, hair mortar); fixing steps into 44 Jesus Lane, as well as brickwork and oak nosings (incl lime, bricks, cement, oak); repair tiling in Ball's house (incl labour, slates, nails); repair tiling and slating at 38 and 40 Jesus Lane (incl labour, tiles, slates, nails, tiling mortar). Signed off by Bradwell & Son.

Estate text receipt received of Mr D Whittlesey (?) the sum of 6s 9d for estate belonging to Jesus College Cambridge. Signed by William Banker (Collections).

Received of D. Whittlesey 14s for half a year's land tax charged on the estate of the Master & Fellows of Jesus College, at Willingham, the Lady day last. Signed by G Underwood, assessor.

Bill for items bought for Miss Wescom by Abraham Pearmain. Signed by Charles Day on behalf of Lord F Fitzroy. Items billed include: 1 oak tree, 1 elm tree, and varying lengths of girt. Total amount £8 7s 1d.

Invoice for Estates.

5th September 1859 at Mrs Porchers, Jesus Lane, as per estimate for new boarding, the side of front kitchen, prepare a pump standard for the force pump and fix it on oak sills. Includes cost of oak and mans' time. Repair sash frame, rehang sash in the kitchen, fix new window boards, taken down and refit iron guards to the windows. Make a curb for sinking the well.

Signed G. Bradwell and Thomas Bradwell.

Bill for repairs done at Mr. Dixon's house at Hills Road by James Howes on 26th July 1856. Total amount £15 10s. Signed by Thomas Dixon and James Howes.

Bill for repairs done at estates between 10th November 1855 and 9th August 1856. Total amount billed is £4 8s 2d. Signed by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Bill for repairs to estates in town done by Favell and Ellis in November 1855 and July 1856. Total amount £2 12s 10d. Signed by Robert Ellis.

Estimate from Coulson & Son Ltd for work on garden wall as detailed in the specification

An estimate for the construction of an open shed, 40ft x 14ft, and a 'Boat/Moat[?] place' on land owned by Jesus college. Includes measurements for roofing, brickwork and wooden posts, totalling £62 15s 6d.

Estimate for the cost of iron spiking over palisades and a sloping piece at each end, measuring 48 yards. £22 17s 0d.

Survey my Charles Humfrey, of the repairs necessary to the parsonage house, the barn, stable etc., and to the church, amounting to £380.19.8.

Estimate for repairs to fences and yard to be carried out by John Hooper at Manor Farm, Graveley, including blacking posts. Dimensions for fences/posts given. Total estimated cost £27-0-0. Signed by Martin [?], based in Godmanchester.

Letter from the Vicar A.T. Waugh, enclosing and estimate from John Easter, bricklayer, for repairing the roof of the chancel.

Two houses in King street leased to Murden late Press. One house occupied by Murden and the other with a baking office attached let to Moyse. £30

An estate in King Street leased to Mr W Press. Consisting of house, garden and shed occupied by Mr Press. House occupied by father. £42.10.

It is not completely clear from the record which property this vaulation or the one of 1827 refer to but the leasees in both valuations correlate with those occupying this property

List of cost of repairs for buildings and fences of the Vicarage, Sanders's Farm, and Lodge Buildings, coming to a total of £540.10.7.

Shows possible income, assuming constant occupation, of eleven tenements in King Street which fell out of lease at Lady Day 1852

A batch of letters and estimates,clipped together, for providing a water supply for the Vicarage, by sinking an Artesian Well, and supplying a pump.. There are estimates and letters from Le Grand, Sutcliff & Gell Ltd, of Southall, October-November 1921, and the same from Charles Lack & Sons Ltd, of Cottenham, July-August 1922. At the top of the batch is a letter from Queen Anne's Bounty 21 July 1921, with loan application papers. See file 4/8, which shows that the work went ahead

Estimates for the cost of decorating work to unspecified property, including: washing and distempering ceilings, preparing and sizing walls, supplying and hanging marble paper in "Black and Line" and varnishing paper after hanging, all amounting to £7 10s. Estimated bill is addressed to Mr Harvey, 34 (47 deleted) Jesus Lane, by William Wilburn, Decorator, in 23 James Street, Cambridge. At the bottom of the estimate is a note that college will pay half the bill, £3 15s.

A batch of letters correspondence between the Vicar and the College about the details of where the electic points should be etc.

Document One:

Bill for painting works done in the College in 1849. Including:

Estimate achieved for painting the East front west close, £7 18s 1 1/2d
Estimate for Great Court, £11 17s 9d
Estimate for Cloister Court, £6 13s 4d
Estimate for cupula over Hall, £2 6s
Estimate for 3 doors in Cloisters, front iron gates, gates to Lodge, 2 over lamps & irons for Lodge door, £2 8s 1d
Estimate for North front, 3 1s 6d
Extras ordered by Mr. Rowe & Sundries (listed), £6 4s 10 1/4 d
Amounting to £40 9s 7 3/4 d

Document Two:
Receipt of above, paid 10th January 1850. Signed on receipt J. H. Goode for J. Goode & Son

Consists of photocopies of 2 pages of handwritten notes on "Ethics of Science" [for talks to be given] at the University of Minnesota (20 May 1966) and on All-India Radio, Calcutta (10 Nov 1966).

Comprises correspondence between Professor Eugene Galanter (Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York), Bronowski and Harry Boardman (Secretary General of the Salk Institute) relating to: a meeting of the Commission on Biology, Learning and Behaviour at the Salk Institute organised by Galanter; the non-publication of papers from colloquia organised by Galanter at the Salk Institute in 1970-1971; Galanter acting as a consultant at the Salk Institute; and reports of the Psychophysics Research Program (Washington D C).

Also includes: a press cutting on the possible establishment of a committee on the History and Philosophy of Science at Columbia University, New York, which Galanter was involved in; and copies of letters that Galanter sent to President Lyndon B Johnson (21 Feb & 29 Apr 1966) on psychological strategy in the Vietnam War.

Comprises correspondence with Professor Wigner (Princeton University, Department of Physics) about Wigner's address on 'Physics and the Explanation of Life' and his comments on Bronowski's address on 'The Evolution of Complexity', both given at a meeting of the AAAS [American Association for the Advancement of Science] in Boston (Dec 1969). Includes a letter from Bronowski to Michael Polanyi, sending a copy of 'The Evolution of Complexity'.

Comprises correspondence with Euros journal (Amersfort, Holland) on Bronowski contributing an article ('The Dilemma of the Scientist') and possibly becoming a member of the Advisory Board for the journal.

Also includes promotional information booklets on Fondation Europeenne de la Culture and Praemium Erasmianum (a proposed new prize similar to the Nobel Prize, but for spiritual and cultural achievements).

Tillyard was Master 1945-1959.

Comprises correspondence on Bronowski evaluating grant proposals for the Foundation, with copies of his evaluations of proposals by Education Development Center Inc. on developing a secondary school curriculum on 'Exploring Human Nature' and by Dr Stuart Kauffman for investigation of 'Mutation and Tissue Interaction: Heuristic Cell Models'.

Also includes copies of the proposal and articles by Dr Stuart Kauffman.

Evening Concert held in Jesus College Chapel on Sunday 3rd February at 8.30pm

Evening Concert held in Jesus College Chapel on Sunday 5th May at 8.30pm

Evening concert held in Jesus College Chapel on Sunday 24th November at 8.30pm

Evening Service in A [major]. For voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ.