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Printed poster for the sale of a 'Desirable tenement', with orchard and pasture, copyhold, to be sold at auction at the Red Lion Public House, Harlton, 8 December 1825. Conditions relating to the sale written inside, with a note that it was purchased by G.G. Humfrey. With a note to the Master that Mr Humfrey purchased the estate for 161 guineas (9/12/3).

Document of certification regarding the division of land between Anthony Jackson, Alexander Watford and Thomas Utton, including rents due. Issued by Day, Fowler and Swallow, solicitors and addressed to Revd Dr William French, Master of Jesus College. Includes handwritten summary of payments.

Notice of receipt of a cheque totalling £37 4s 1d from the Burlington Hotel in Sheringham, Norfolk.

Notice of proposed purchase of land for the roadway under the Public Health Act 1875
This relates to 3150 square yards of land behind Salisbury Villas owned by the College and leased to Arthur John Gray

Printed form notifying the college of the proposed purchase of a piece of arable land for the railway. The accompanying plan was removed to the cabinet.

25th May 1871 - Two letters and a plan from John W. Scudamore proposing the College grant him a 99 year building lease of land so that he could create a new road linking Station Road and Hills Road. "Declined" is written at the bottom of the letter

1st November 1887 - 8th November 1889 - series of letters addressed to Hugh Shield (Bursar) concerning the sale of land to the Cambridge Improvement Commissioners for a new road to be built between Station Road and Mill Road [Tenison Road]

Letter addressed to the Bursar noting the following: 'We are in receipt of yours of the 7th inst. respecting error on the enclosed receipt. We regret this error, and are sorry to have caused you the trouble of returning same to us. It was quite an oversight on the writer's part. Please accept our apology, and we return same duly corrected.'

Typed reminder of rent due for the area in front of 20 Jesus Lane, totalling 2s 6d due 29th September 1926. Addressee is not named.

Typed reminder of rent due for the area in front of 21 Jesus Lane, totalling 3s 0d due 29th September 1926. Addressee is not named.

Typed reminder of rent due for land on Park Street, part of 1a, totalling 2s 0d due 29th September 1926. Addressee is not named.

Typed reminder of rent due for the area in front of 22 Jesus Lane, totalling 2s 6d due 29th September 1926. Addressee is not named.

Typed reminder of rent due for messuage, formerly the "Old Greyhound": 46/53 St. Andrew's Street, totalling £4 4s 10d due 29th September 1926. Addressee is not named.

Typed reminder of rent due for the area in front of 6 St. Andrew's Street, totalling 1s due 29th September 1926. Addressee is not named.

Addressed to Charles, concerning the change of residence to 20 Southhampton Buildings.

Letter addressed to the Bursar informing him that they had received Notice of Assignment of the Lease by the Personal Representative of Charles Armstrong, deceased, to Mr Reginald Piercy Balham who resides at the property

Parties: (1) William Arthur Young and Edwin Jackson (personal representatives of Philip Henry Young deceased), (2) Jesus College

Notice from Captain Danger to Mrs Collin of a subsequent mortgage of an estate already in mortgage to her

The Bishop has sanctioned the appointment of James T. Plowden-Wardlaw as Priest in charge of St Clement's for three months from 8 May 1931.

Parties: (1) Joseph Symonds Watts and John Matthew, (2) Francis Eaden.

Unless all principal moneys and interest due from you to us as such executors on mortgage be paid at the expiration of six calendar months from the service of this notice it is our intention to sell the hereditaments comprised in such mortgage

Account book containing: account for the erection of the Waterhouse Building; provision for meeting the expenditure, 1869-71; plan for repayment of the Rustat Bursar; details of rebuilding of the chimnies by M. Rickman, with raising of plinth; accounts for funding alterations to the Hall ("etc."), 1875; details of purchase and installation of organ at the West end of the Chapel, 1887-90, with later note by Arthur Gray; accounts for the Waterhouse Building and Building Fund; details of the erection of two houses [North House and East House] and the formation of Chapel Court, 1882-85; details of new windows and repairs to "Old Wing", and connection to Cloister Court; alterations to offices and W.C. block; accounts for repair and decoration of the Master's Lodge, 1885.

Notes relating to the installation of gas lighting in College, c. 1830. Notes that the present gas lamp in first court be removed and replaced with two gas lamps on pillars about 5 yards distant from the extremities of the east side of the grass flat. The Chapel should also be lit with eight gas lamps on brass brackets. Two gas lamps should be placed in the ante chapel and that the cloisters should also be lit by gas with two lights, one in the corner by the Chapel door and the other in the opposite corner. Most of the sheet also records notes relating to, perhaps, either a sermon or marriage ceremony.

3 pages of hand written notes on 101, 103, 105, 107 and 111 Hills Road which were unsuccessfully offered at auction on 11 December 1936. Includes calculations as to current rents, estimated annual value and amount needed for dilapidations.

Draft memorandum by the Vicar (A.C.B.) about the state of the organ and the cost of cleaning it and installing an electric blowing plant. Discusses ways of raising the money, including an appeal to the patrons.

Typewritten text "Notes on the 'Maniere Francaise'", and another copy of it titled "Notes on the 'French Manner'".

By Dr Ashton; compare his annotations to edns in the Old Library (1686 and 1718, E.6.42 and C.5.7/1)

Consists of a small binder labelled 'induction' with typescript notes and some handwritten notes.

The original binder and contents have been separated.

Consists of 2 pages of typescript notes on plate 120 illustrating relativity and plate 218 on the game of Morra in 'The Ascent of Man' book.

Comprises: typescript notes on illustrations for chapters 1-4; text about the finger game called Morra for inclusion in 'The Ascent of Man' book; and notes on brain diagram sketches by Sylvia Fitzgerald.

Also includes letters from: Peter Campbell (BBC) about progress on illustrations, Bronowski's health and Campbell having visited the Bronowski's in California; Jo [Marquand] on illustrations; and Otto Nathan (Trustee of the Estate of Albert Einstein) on copies of letters that were missing from their archives.

Notes on Bach's organ works: a companion to the revised Novello edition. Books 4-5, Six sonatas for two manuals and pedal. By Walter Emery.
Published by Novello, London.

Includes information about events in Jesus College mainly following the second world war.

Statement by a defendent, claiming that he has been unfairly pursued for years by a claimant, and asking for the case to be dismissed. It seems to relate to tithes. With marginal notes, perhaps by counsel. The document is badly damaged, and has no visible date.

A note adding up charges to the college for 1862, including the Master, Fellows, and Scholars Commons; Cook's Bills; Coals; Chapel Expenses[?].

Notes about presentation to the living 1402, 1473, 1515, 1521, 1616.

Very small file of notes from a tour in Germany, mostly just indicating the itinerary.

Typewritten copy of: "Notes for the guidance of visitors to the ancient Abbey of the City and District of St Alban".
Fifth impression, 1984.

Comprises handwritten notes by Lister Sinclair, a typescript of 'Jacob Bronowski in Japan - 1945' by Solandt with annotations of corrections made (22 Oct) and a 2nd typescript with the corrections included.

Advisory production notes for Jesus College plays covering logistics of putting on the productions within College - liaison between the Music and Literary Societies; gaining permission from Senior Tutor and Dean; stewards and seating; posters and programmes; photographs; press; dressing rooms; make-up; lighting; finance; wardrobe room; prompter and call-boy; and storage of scenery. Separate notes for Miracle Plays; and May Week productions

Comprises annotated photocopies of galley proofs for 'The Ascent of Man'.

Also includes typescripts of the foreword, table of contents, a list of other books by Bronowski [for inclusion in 'The Ascent of Man' book] and an introduction for a BBC brochure on 'The Ascent of Man'.

Comprises draft outlines for 'Copernicus as a Humanist' (Jan 1973), a draft with "cuts for Smithsonian Magazine noted" (Feb 1973), an annotated typescript of 'Copernicus as Humanist' (Feb 1973), a letter from Curtis Wilson on Bronowski's paper, a copy of a letter to [E H] Gombrich from Bronowski on 15th and 16th century humanism, and a Copernicus bibliography sent from Owen Gingerich.

Comprises handwritten notes by Bronowski on people that he had met or known including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, J B S Haldane, Max Black, Richard Braithwaite, Peter Brook, Peter Hall, Leslie Carron, Linus Pauling, J D Bernal, Patrick Blackett, Bernard Woolf, Norbert Wiener, Gowland Hopkins, Charlotte Haldane, Julian Huxley, Gregory Pincus and Lionel Penrose.

Also includes handwritten notes by Bronowski on the National Coal Board, key dates and facts for an autobiography, and an autobiography for 'Midcentury authors'.

Additionally includes a typescript of a report by Bronowski on 'Pandemonium' by Humphrey Jennings (16 Dec 1954).

Letter from Evelyn Young of Fen Drayton, to O.P. Fisher, with a list of some of the Rectors of Graveley 1345-1904, and some notes by Fisher on the life of St Botolph, one copied from a MS lent by Mrs Conybeare, late of Barrington, 1905.

Notes and queries about the proofs of Making Music on the Organ. [Published by Oxford University Press in 1990].

Containing notes (mostly in Jacob Bronowski's handwriting) on: Jacob Bronowski's shares, pension, life insurances, bank accounts; Jacob and Rita Bronowski's joint bank account and house; Rita Bronowski's shares and bank accounts; their daughter's shares; annual finances; and notes on Jacob Bronowski's will.

Notebooks of Ian Stewart

Notebooks of colleagues of Ian Stewart

Also includes press cuttings about matches.

Consists of typed notes divided into 6 sections entitled "Art and Pattern", "Imagination and the Springs of Action", "The Silent Shell: the Responsibility of Art and Science", "Ethics and the Structure of Science", "History, the Hero and the Statistician" and "The Face of Violence".

Also includes: an outline and draft verses and notes for a satirical poem to be entitled 'The Glasshouse' (Jun 1944-May 1945); a press cutting about Szmul Mardechaj Zygielbojm (a Polish man who wrote an open letter just before his death to President Raczkiewicz and General Sikorski of Poland, 1 Jun 1943); and notes for a poem (1 Sep 1942).