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Handwritten note titled with three sets of numbers and sums. "College Buildings" is listed as £52 12s 0s, "Houses" totaling £52 12s 0d, and "Farms" is listed totaling £31 12s 5d. All three sums total £105 15s 5d.

"Paean" for organ in A major. Metronome marking: 112 beats per minute.
Two drafts: one complete in ink, and one incomplete in pencil.

London, 12th July 1814.
"We return you our grateful thanks for kind remittance of a bill for £27 - 7 days in Esdailles. The returned packing boxes are not yet arrived - we of course make an allowance for them which can be easily settled with your friend.
Hereby soliciting the lower of your [...].
We are, Sir, your very obliged servants".

Comprises correspondence on Pacifica Foundation radio stations (WBAI in New York, KPFK in Los Angeles and KPFA in Berkeley) broadcasting recorded lectures by Bronowski. Lectures mentioned are 'The Identity of Man', 'The Logic of the Mind', 'Leonardo da Vinci in Florence', 'The Philosophy of Contemporary Science', 'Magic, Science and Civilization' and 'Art as a Mode of Knowledge'.

Also includes: a copy of a letter requesting permission and a tape of 'The Logic of the Mind' to be broadcast on local FM radio stations in Southern California; a copy of a memo on locating tapes of 'The Identity of Man', 'The Logic of the Mind' and 'Science, the New Humanism'; and booklets containing programme schedules for KPFA and WBAI.

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Pachelbel. Ausgewählte Werke (Selected Works).
For cembalo - piano.
Urtext edition by Helmut Schultz.
Published by Edition Peters, London.

Contents:

• Suite in E dur [Suite in E major]
• Aus einer Suite in As dur [From a Suite in A flat major]
• Aria in a moll mit sechs Variationen (aus dem "Hexachordum Apollinis") [Aria in A minor with six variations (from the "Hexachordum Apollinis")]
• Choralthema in D dur mit acht Variationen ("Alle Menschen müssen sterben") [Chorale Theme in D major with eight variations]
• Choralbearbeitung in G dur ("Der Tag, der ist so freudenreich") [Chorale based composition in G major]
• Fantasia in g moll (dorisch) [Fantasia in G minor]
• Praeludium und Fuga in B dur [Prelude and Fugue in B major]
• Fuga in d moll (dorisch) [Fugue in D minor]
• Ricercar in fis moll [Ricercar in F sharp minor]
• Doppelfuge in d moll (dorisch) (über das Magnificat) [Double Fugue in D minor (based on the Magnificat)]
• Ciacona in d moll (dorisch) [Ciacona in D minor]

Consists of two letters asking to interview Bronowski (declined) with annotations by Bronowski's secretaries.

Virgil's Aeneid; M. R. James's no. 33. James suggests the text was copied from an imperfect archetype. He identifies two hands in the text and at least four more in the marginal and interlinear glosses.

Photograph; Percval Gardner Smith was the Dean of Jesus College.

"When I lie within my bed..." [incipit]. Oxford Easy Anthems E 164 for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) and organ or piano in E major.
There is one loose page with some additional bars and a photocopy with the last page of the manuscript that includes an alternative ending for the last two bars.

Concert of early music given by the ensemble Cambridge Pro Musica Praeclassica directed by David Munrow in the College Chapel in aid of Oxfam

Scribbled list of expenditure for 1874 coming to a total of £80 15s 10 1/2d. List includes carpenters', bricklayers', glaziers' bills for work done at the chancel; floor rate; income tax; quit rent; Hundon School; collecting tithe rent charges.

Letter to the college from Robert F. Cuthbert, saying that the overseer has established a rate of 1s 4d to the pound, amounting to a payment of £40 2s 8d [paid annually by the college towards poor relief in Hundon]. Ends on a personal note, hoping that the recipient is well, and thanking God for his own continued good health.

Comprises copies of a report prepared for the RAND Corporation Board of Trustees comparing overhead rates in non-profit institutions, and a memorandum to Joseph Slater (Salk Institute) about the report. The copies were sent to Bronowski by Slater, with a note.

Paid subscription to Over School £2 2s, Charles Warren

Yearly subscription to Over National School. Signed by Charles Warren. Subscription amount 2 guineas (£2 2s).

Misc. financial accounts related to Over.

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1. Income tax 1858-9, first moiety, parish of Over, Cambridge. Received of Mr Thomas Gifford for Jesus College, on January 9th 1859, the sum of £1 8s. 7d. (Schedule A) for two quarters income tax due 20th September 1858. Signed Joseph Gifford, Collector.

2. Income tax 1858-9, second moiety, Over. Received of Mr Thomas Gifford for Jesus College the 1st July 1859, the sum of £1 8s. 7d. for two quarters' income tax due 20th march 1859. Signed Joseph Gifford, collecor.

1. Income tax, 1858-9, second moiety. Parish of Over, for Jesus College. Received of Mr. GIfford, July 1859, the sum of £2 3s 1d. for two quarters' income tax due 20th March 1859. Signed Joseph GIfford, Collector. Schedule A.

2. Account of labour done at wall on College Farm at Over in the Occupation of Mr William Gifford. New Wall 198 feet long 5 feet 6 inches high. 3 feet deep foundation right through on account of Town watercourse close to it which occasioned it to be deep, all the foundation of 14 inch work, the foundation of 14 inch work was all done with Old Bricks of the premises which took (?) morter.

Costs for labour and for mortar.

Paid. Signed Smithee SUtton, Bricklayer, Over.

3. Further invoice. Jesus College, Gifford, Over. For the wall:

June 11th: 1000 bricks, 500 (?) bricks.
15thL 1000 bricks, 500 running? bricks.
17th: 2500 bricks.
18th: 1000 bricks.
20th: 500 coping bricks, 400 splait (splay) bricks, 2000 bricks.
24th: 1000 bricks.
27th: 300 bricks, 200 rough bricks, 200 coping bricks, 50 splait (splay) bricks.
28th: 100 shingle? bricks, 100 splay bricks, 100 coping bricks.
July 1st: 15 coping bricks.

Mortar, 1/2 labour. Paid October 10th 1859, Mr Gifford.

Receipt for one year's tax on land owned by Jesus College (46 acres and 13 perches) for the drainage at Over, received of William Gifford. Total payment equals £5 15s 2 1/2d. Dated 7th December 1863 and signed by Robert Hall, the collector.

Receipt for one year's tax on land (4 acres) for the drainage at Over at 2 shilling per Acre, received of Robert Norman. Total payment equals 8s 6d. Dated 2nd June 1879 and signed by Robert Hall, the collector.

Receipt for one year's rate on land (4 acres 1 rood) for the drainage at Over at 3s 6d per Acre, received of Robert Norman. Total payment equals 10s 7d. Dated 12th December 1879 and signed by Robert Hall, the collector.

Includes the 'women's institute history of Over', 1958.

Comprises: copies of letters relating to agreements for the publication of Bronowski's Silliman ('The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination'), Mellon (Art as a Mode of Knowledge') and Bampton ('Magic, Science and Civilisation') lecture series; copies of correspondence with Professor C H van Schooneveld (department of Slavic Language and Literature, Indiana University) about a proposal for Bronowski to combine 2 of his essays on language for publication together as a book on 'Language and Biology' for the 'Janua Linguarum' series; a memorandum on a volume of collected papers, 'Language in a Biological Frame', which included 'The Biological Foundations of Language' by Bronowski; a copy of a letter about Bronowski cancelling a talk on 'The Impersonality of Science' ['20th Century Images of Man'] due to be given before the Technology and Culture seminar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (May 1973); copies of letters inviting Bronowski to contribute to a symposium organised by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences (Washington D C) to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus (Apr 1973); a copy of a letter about the Aharon Katchalsky Memorial symposium (University of California, 1973); a copy of a letter from Bronowski agreeing to attend the 12th General Assembly of CIPSH (International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies) of UNESCO and present a paper on 'The Experience of Creation' (1973); copies of correspondence relating to Sylvia Fitzgerald enquiring when papers by Bronowski would be published; and lists of lectures Bronowski was due to give, conferences and symposia he was due to attend, scheduled visits to educational establishments and publications due (c. 1974-1976).

Contains scores for: Tom Thumb; Angelus ad Virginem; Instrumental parts for Sumerian Hymn; Alabaster - Sonnet; Allbright - Te lucis ante terminum; Bach - overture to Suite no.1; orchestral parts to Ave Verum Corpus; Caccia - Tosto che l'alba; Handel - Alcina suite

Comprises an annotated typed outline of lecture 2, handwritten notes and a list of slides to be used. Also includes source material: copies of poems/plays by T S Elliot, Alexander Pope, Shakespeare and D H Lawrence; a reprint of 'Linear Systems Analysis of the Limulus Retina' by Dodge, Shapley and Knight; and a list of references sent by Roman Jakobson.

Comprises an annotated typed outline of lecture 6, handwritten notes and a list of slides to be used. Also includes: notes for 'The Creative Act' [lecture] given in Minnesota, May 1966; copies of a translation of poems by Cavafy, poems by E E Cummings and 'Selected Bab ballads'; a copy of a letter about whether Leonardo da Vinci used his left hand for drawing and painting as well as shading and writing; a press cutting from the [Times Literary Supplement]; and Bronowski's Christmas poem for 1965.

Comprises an annotated typed outline of lecture 4, handwritten notes and a list of slides to be used. Also includes: copies of poems by F Garcia Lorca and W S Yeats; and copies of 'The Detailed Texture of Eidetic Images' and an article on 'Is there Photographic Memory?' from 'Nature'.

Comprises an annotated typed outline of lecture 3, handwritten notes and a list of slides to be used. Also includes: a paper on 'The Realism of William Blake' by Bronowski (Jan 1969); copies of pages from Bronowski's 'The Poet's Defence'; copies of part of the poem 'The Third Booke of Ayres' by Campion; and a reprint of 'On the Verbal Art of William Blake and Other Poet-Painters' by Roman Jakobson (sent by Jakobson).

Comprises an annotated typed outline of lecture 5, handwritten notes and a list of slides to be used. Also includes: copies of poems by Gertrude Stein; copies of part of Bronowski's lecture on 'The Imaginative Mind in Art' (York University, Canada, 1963); press cuttings on 'The spell of fairy stories' and the poet Francois Villon.

Comprises photocopied sources, an annotated outline [for the lecture] and a press release about Bronowski giving his lecture at the Quincentennial Copernicus Symposium. Includes a copy of Lisa Jardine's dissertation on 'Methods of Discovery and Communication in the Writings of Francis Bacon'.

Comprises an annotated typed outline of lecture 1, handwritten notes and a list of slides to be used. Also includes an annotated copy of Bronowski's Christmas poem for 1966.

Outgoing correspondence of Ian Stewart (Lord Stewartby) not readily identifiable with incoming correspondence. Note that a significant amount of Ian Stewart's original outgoing correspondence with Christopher Blunt not directly associated with Christopher Blunt's correspondence is nevertheless catalogued Christopher Blunt's correspondence. The items were kept by Christopher Blunt but were returned to Ian Stewart after Christopher Blunt's death.

Comprises a catalogue for an exhibition at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego which Jacob and Rita Bronowski lent a sculpture to ('Figure in Space' by Reg Butler).

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Comprising two press cuttings from Israel Today San Diego newspaper.

Includes photograph of picture

Letter to the Master of Jesus College, concerning the otter prize advanced to Ds Sharp. Amount totals £21. Signed by O Fisher.

Consists of a press cutting from Current Anthropology (journal), with an envelope listing the article.