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Envelope containing 3 receipts of payments from a Mrs Porcher. £1 9s 6d to Benjamin Langton; 9s 6d to John Bunting; 17s to R Press.

Includes correspondence relating to improvement of temperature and humidity in SCR including suggestion of installation of low level heating supplied from Hudevad plain panel radiators. Also copies of draft plans showing SCR should radiators be installed

Consists of a journal edited by Laura Riding (Editor) and Robert Graves (Associate Editor). Contributors to this issue include James Reeves, Len Lye, Laura Riding and Robert Graves.

Epitaph composed by Ralph Gunsoun

Includes file of correspondence, notices and promotional fliers from suppliers relating to purchase of walkie talkie radios for porters, 1979;

Letters concerning the erection of ventilators in Manor Street for the sewers in Jesus Lane

Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort für vier gemischte Chöre [for four mixed choirs]. By Michael Praetorius.
Edited by Friedrich Blume and Wilibald Gurlitt.
Published by Möseler Verlag, Wolfenbüttel and Zurich.

Correspondence, attachments and related materials dealing mainly with the coinages of Henry IV and Henry V, and the contributions of the correspondent on these coinages to the BNJ.

Manuscript & typescript papers of Eric Harris without accompanying correspondence

Correspondence of Eric Harris with Edgar Winstanley

Large photograph showing Hopcroft (m. 1906) in military uniform.

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'.

Receipts from Essex & Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society issued to Percy Bullock from 1945 to 1949 addressed to his New Square address in Cambridge.

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.