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This folder of letters are addressed to Frederick Brittain and are from a variety of correspondents. They cover a number of different subjects but most are thank you letters for either visits, letters from FB, copies of the Roosters' Codex, copies of his book on South Mymms, or copies of his book on the use of Latin in Church.

They also include:

13th December 1932 - Letter from Arthur Gray thanking and agreeing with the Roosters' suggestion that there should be a portrait of Q.

14th March 1934 - Letter from FB to Sir Sydney Castle Roberts (Secretary of the Cambridge University Press, 1922-48) [this letter was reprinted on page 103 of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

25th May 1938 - Letter from Mrs Fairburn thanking FB for his "wonderful help and sympathy" over the death of her husband Steve Fairburn and the arrangements for his Memorial Service at Jesus College.

This folder of letters are addressed to Frederick Brittain and are from a variety of correspondents and cover a number of different subjects. Most are thank you letters for his kindness, encouragement and help. They also include compliments on his articles in the Cambridge Review and other publications including those about Bernard Manning and Sir Arthur Quiller Couch. Also congratulations on his book about 'Q'.

They also include:

8th June 1943 - Letter from Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood [this letter was reprinted on page 138 of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

28th November 1943 - Letter from Sir Arthur Quiller Couch's daughter Foy thanking FB for the "delightful portrait of my father" that he wrote for the 'Spectator' magazine.

6th October 1944 - Letter from his Mum [this letter was reprinted on page 157] of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

27th October 1944 - Letter from a student thanking FB for giving him a Proctor's note as it enabled him and his partner to win the Scavenger Hunt and earn the prize of two fried eggs.

2nd May 1945 - Letter from G. A. Weekes (Master of Sidney Sussex College) thanking FB for accepting the nomination to the Pro-Proctorship in October 1945 and in due course to the Proctorship. He ends by saying "There is no man whom we should welcome in this office more than yourself".

16th August 1947 - Letter from G. A. Weekes (Master of Sidney Sussex College) asking FB to allow him to nominate him for election to the Council of the Friends of Ely Cathedral.

27th July 1945 - Letter from J. W. Truron [this letter was reprinted on page 161 of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

27th September 1946 - Letter from Noel Hopkins [Provost of Wakefield] [this letter was reprinted on page 167 of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

5th December 1947 - Letter from Claude Blagden [Bishop of Peterborough] [this letter was reprinted on page 172 of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

2nd March 1947 - Letter from A. B. Ramsey [this letter was reprinted on page 173 of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

1949 - Poem in latin about Freddie Britain written on a long thin piece of paper to replicate parchment and has a red wax seal attached to the bottom.

This folder of letters are addressed to Frederick Brittain and are from a variety of correspondents and cover a number of different subjects. These include letters of condolence on the death of his mother in 1950 but are mainly thank you letters for his kidness, charm and hospitality at dinners and during weekend stays in Cambridge. These include:

23rd June 1952 - Letter from Angela Thirkell (novelist) [this letter was reprinted on page 199 of 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

20th and 22nd October 1955 - Humourous exchange of letters with Edward Roberts [Bishop of Ely] about an article in The Revellers in which he was mistakenly referred to as Sir Frederick Brittain [this letter was reprinted in 'Fifty Years At Jesus. The Diaries of Frederick Brittain' edited by Muriel Brittain]

This folder of letters are addressed to Frederick Brittain and are from a variety of correspondents and cover a number of different subjects. These include letters from:

Anthony Armstrong-Jones (1st Earl of Snowdon) 13th Jul 1961, 14th Nov 1961, 8th Oct 1961, 26th Oct 1961, Jun 1963, 19th Oct 1964 and 27th Oct 1964

Edward Roberts (Bishop of Ely) 2nd Jul 1964, 5th Aug 1964, 24th Aug 1964, 12th Sept 1966 and 17th Nov 1966

Falkner Allison (Bishop of Winchester) 13th Nov 1962, 14th Feb 1963 and 30th Sept 1963

John Moorman (Bishop of Ripon) 6th Nov 1963, 22nd Apr 1966 and 20th Sept 1967

Sybil Thorndike (Dame Agnes Sybil Thorndike, actress) 7th Nov 1962, 5th Nov 1963, 26th Oct 1964, 7th Nov 1966 and 13th Nov 1968

31st March 1967 and 15th April 1967 - 2 humourous poems written after the operation undergone by FB

Consists of reprints of articles about DNA molecules and a journal containing an article entitled 'The Nomadic and the Sedentary'.

Paid £7 to William Wiseman for Audit dessert, Rustat dessert and Commencement dessert.

College Servants for
Ale - 9
Bread - 4
Cheese - 6
£0 1s 1d

College Servants for
2 Bread - 4
Cheese - 8
Ale - 6
£0 1s 1d

College Servants
Ale - 6
Bread - 2
Cheese - 2

Total: £4 3s. 0d. May 3, 4, 5, 6 arrangements. Tea, whiting fish, mutton cutlets, sherry, brandy, jam, ?

17th December 1813. Costs include: dishes of apples; dishes of nuts; pears; oranges; raisins; cakes; preserves; brandy cherries; olives.
£2 16s settled on 24th December 1813.
Signed by E Wilson.

Paid £21 4s 3d (after 11s 6d deduction) to John Willis for: tarbot and lobster sauce, oyster, 3 boiled trout, roast tongue and sauce, pea soup, 57lb beef, hare soup, a pig's face, 3 roasted fowl, 6 veal, seasoned dish of stewed eels, vegetables and sauce, a boiled turkey and oyster sauce, lemon pudding, maceroni (maseronie), apple pie, trifle, 2 apricot tarts, college pudding, 2 mince pies, jelly, large dish of boiled beef, dish of brawn, celery, salmon and lobster, salmon patties, pig's face, mashed calve's head, lamb, potatoes, carrots, ducks, sweetbread, cake and custard, omlette (omlet), cauliflower, peas, cherry pie, goose and sauce, marrow pudding, haunched mutton, salad, vegetables and butter (for servant), cucumber

Paid to Mrs Calvert for the food for the commencement dinner on July 4th 1820. Bill includes bread, cheese, butter, ale, wine in hall, port, sherry, wine in the combination room, tea and coffee, cards.

College Servants for
Ale - 6
Bread - 2
Cheese -2
£0 0s 10d

College Servants for
Ale - 6
Bread - 2
Cheese -2
£0 0s 10d

May 10 arrangements; £1 9s. 2d. Tea, whiting tuna, (fish), loaves, cakes, meat, asparagus potatoes

£0 0s 10d (?)
For Coll. Jesu. ale
Bread
Cheese

Rustat Dinner, 14th April 1814.
Costs include: turbot lobster sauce; pigeon pie; loin of herricot mutton; vegetables; sweetbreads; white soup; friceandeau veal; vegetables; pork chops with apple sauce; patties; roast beef; three chickens; jelly; apricot tart; radishes; Italian cheese; asparagus; salad; gooseberry pie; blancmange (blamonge); two lamb with mint sauce. Total £8 10s (including deduction for Commons).
Paid.

Commencement Dinner, 5th July 1814.
Costs include: turbot lobster with Dutch sauce; three boiled fowls; green pea soup; pig's face; patties; round beef; pigeon pie; curried lamb; white soup; three roast fowls; large dish of stewed eels; new potatoes, carrots, cauliflowers (colliflowers) and greens; large quantity of peas; fricasseed veal white and brown; currant pie; omelette (omlet); two ducks; lemon pudding; large trifle; custard pudding; cole and eel; two dished macaroni; gooseberry pie; goose gooseberry sauce; two cucumbers; two pies. Total £11 12s (including deduction for Commons).
Paid.

Signed by Richard Brett.
For Commencement, 2nd July 1816, £7 12. Costs include: bread; cheese; butter; ale; port (10 bottles); sherry (6 bottles); tea and coffee (for 16 people); servants' ale; servants' bread; servants' cheese; laundress; scullery.
For 7th June 1816 for the Officers from Ely, £4 18s 9d. Costs include: bread; cheese; ale; 2 bottles of Audit ale; 4 bottles of sherry; 9 bottles of port; tea and coffee for 16 people.
For £59 4s: Audit 1815; Rustat 1816; Gravely; coals; Officers dinner; Commencement; Audit Fee; rats; Town Rent.
For £14 4s 1d for Audit Dinner 15th December 1815 and Audit Supper. Costs include (dinner): bread; butter; cheese; Audit Ale; mild ale; 10 bottles of sherry; 14 bottles of port; tea and coffee for 16 people; 2 packs of cards; candles; scullery; laundress.
Costs include (supper): bread; cheese; butter; Audit Ale; mild ale; small; commons; biscuits (biskets); brandy; sherry; port; sugar (suggur); milk punch.
Rustat Audit 26th April 1816 for £7 17s 6d.. Costs include: bread; cheese; butter; ale; small; 1 bottle of port, 1 sherry in the morning; cake; 6 bottles of sherry; 10 bottles of port; tea and coffee for 15; laundress; house maid; scullery.
Bill for £3 for one year's coals up to Michaelmas 1816.
Bill for £1 10s for Gravely, 3rd June 1816. 4 bottles of wine; 1lb of tobacco; catley.

Paid to Wilson Wiseman for food including biscuits, raisins, almonds, sponge shaped cakes, figs, and walnuts.

File containing the following items:

(1) 18th June 1908 – letter from Francis Mugliston, writing on behalf of Cambridge St Mary’s Football Club, to ask if the College would lease them a ground for the purposes of association football during the coming season. He explains that Cambridge St Mary’s were in dispute with the Football Association (FA) and had severed their links with them and joined the Amateur Football Association. The result was that they had been turned out of their old ground and were looking for a new one

(2) 13th July 1908 – letter from F. Rayner (builder) to the College informing them that he had been approached by the Committee of the Cambridge Town Amateur Football Club with a view to hiring the ground in Purbeck Road, He states that he was agreeable of the College would give their consent. The proposed rent was £7 which they paid for use during the football months

(3) Pencil notes of terms for an agreement written on Jesus College headed paper

(4) 8th May 1909 – letter from H. W. Mouel (Honorary secretary of the Cambridge Football Association) to the Bursar – requesting whether the College would enter into negotiations for the tenancy of ‘the field adjoining the disused Newmarket railway siding near the Romsey Council School’. Attached is a copy of their balance sheet

Plans showing area for potential purchase enclosed in red. Referenced in the correspondence

Hand drawn plan of area including proposed football ground and grand stand

1. Attwood -Psalm 1 (Blessed is the man) (Helen Hayward, soprano and Marius Carney, bass)

2. de Victoria - O quam gloriosum (Helen Hayward, soprano and Marius Carney, bass)

3. Bainton - And I saw a new heaven (Helen Hayward, soprano and Marius Carney, bass)

4. Byrd - Justorum animae (Helen Hayward, soprano and Marius Carney, bass)

5. Leighton - Give me the wings of faith (Helen Hayward, soprano and Marius Carney, bass)

6. Vaughan-Williams - Toccata for St. David's day (Daniel Phillips solo)

7. Britten - Hymn to St. Peter (Sally Brulington solo)

8. Britten - Hymn to the Virgin (Sally Burlington, soprano, Aric Prentice, alto, Mark Duthie, tenor, Peter Doimi de Frankopan Subic, bass)

9. Dering - Factum est silentium

10. Harris - Strengthen ye the weak hands (Michael Lanshoff, tenor)

11. Whitlock - Glorious in Heaven (Timothy Horton, organ solo)

12. Byrd - Gaudemeus omnes (Timothy Horton, organ solo)

13. Bairstow - Blessed City, Heavenly Salem (Timothy Horton, organ solo)

14. Stanford - For all the saints (Timothy Horton, organ solo)

15. Langlais - Incantation pour un jour saint (Timothy Horton, organ solo)

Consists of: a copy of pages from the minutes of a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Salk Institute, about a policy of providing financial assistance for employees; copies of letters to Jonas Salk from Francis Crick and S. E. Luria about new members of the Board of Trustees; and a copy of a letter from Edwin Lennox to Coy Eklund about a report of the Conference Committee

Given the amount of £5 6s 6d by Dr Caryl to Thomas Smith for the use of All Saints poor.
Signed by Thomas Smith.

"For thee, O dear country". For soprano and tenor voices, and organ in E major. Words: Bernard of Morlaix c. 1140.
Hillands. Arranged by Peter Hurford.
Two copies: One has four pages, and the other one is reduced to fit in two pages.

Paid James Webster £15 17s 8d for racks & standings in Master Stable hanging shutter and putting in new bar, Deal, Sash Line, Nails, easing door, cover to lock in yard adjoining the coal house, repairing fence next to common, old oak logs, carting down stuff, easing stable doors, repairing/altering pump & dresser in kitchen, re-hanging sash and putting in slips to Porters Lodge, Screws, re-hanging garden doors, laying new floors in Master Garden water closet & pulling up skirting, floor brads, preparing staircase, lining out window next to Masters Lodge, putting up beads, cutting away for the stonemason, making good to stone, repairing floor & skirting, prepared angle bead, cutting out number for plasterers, taking down old stairs, preparing window board, putting up staircase letter N, repairing casing to pump in back yard, black button,

Thomas Thirlby, Bishop of Ely, gave this living to the College, with five others, see Cal. Pat. Rolls 1557-8, p.40. See also the Grant by Letters Patent, Philip and Mary, 5 March 1558, in Steel Press, shelf 8.

Document 1:
Letter from Mr. Wilson, curate at Fordham Mildenhall, to the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, requesting the promised payment of £25 for the building of the school at Fordham.

Document 2:
Attached document where the curate thanks Jesus College for their generous donation of £25

Thanks from the curate of Fordham Mildenhall, Benjamin Wilson, to Jesus College, for the donation to the amount of £25 for a school at Fordham.

Comprises correspondence relating to Japanese translation rights for Bronowski's books, mainly 'The Common Sense of Science'.

Consists of a typescript with a handwritten letter from Luria sending the typescript to Rita Bronowski.

Pasted into the back of the volume is a printed notice from 1877 listing those who gave money towards the reglazing of the chapel windows, listing the windows and the subjects depicted in them.

Form of offer for lease of 1 Salisbury Villas signed by W. L. H. Duckworth (Master of Jesus College) (pencil alterations to some of the terms including start and termination dates of the lease). Letter of acknowledgement from HM Office of Works and letter of acceptance of the offer both dated 7th June 1940

The Form and Order of Service to be used in Westminster Abbey [to mark the King's recovery from serious illness] - - - adapted for general use. Printer: Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford

A legal formulary; M. R. James's no. 18. Spine title: Forma Compositionum Cartarum Obligacionum Acquietanciarum Indenturarum Libellorum et Appellacionum cum aliis pro studio Abbatis. Includes wills dated 1399 and 1403. The first quire is missing. The flyleaves come from one or two unfinished musical service-books (14-15C), one leaf containing antiphons for the feast of the Assumption.

46" high

Lawyer's formulary; M. R. James's no. 19. James supplies a detailed list of the contents.

Consists of a booklet of black and white photographs from the conference, includes a photograph of Bronowski giving a lecture.

Comprises correspondence with Fortune magazine and memoranda relating to Bronowski addressing Fortune's California conference at the Hotel del Coronado, San Diego (1-5 May 1967). Includes copies of Bronowski's lecture on 'The Impact of New Science' delivered to the conference, handwritten lecture notes, and cuttings from Fortune magazine containing articles on 'The Era of Radical Change' (1964) and the architecture of the Salk Institute (1965).

This letter from James Nash to Rev. French indicates that Nash is forwarding information by Mr. (illegible) to the Reverend

Comprises correspondence, reprints and notes relating to an academic dispute about [fossils of teeth and statistical methods to study them] (1950s), which involved publications by Bronowski and W M Long, and the possibility of using similar statistical methods for skulls (c. 1970s).

Correspondents are Professor W E Le Gros Clark (Department of Human Anatomy, University Museum, Oxford), Professor S Zuckerman (Department of Anatomy, University of Birmingham), Professor Lancelot Hogben (Department of Medical Statistics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham), Professor W W Howells (American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University), F Yates (Department of Statistics, Rothamsted Experimental Station), Professor J T Robinson (Transvaal Museum, Pretoria, South Africa), George B Barbour (University of Cincinnati), Professor R A Dart (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Professor S L Washburn (Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley), F Clark Howell (The University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology), K A Joysey (University Museum of Anthropology, Cambridge), Professor Dr Mario Cappieri (Rome, Italy), Professor J D Boyd (University of Cambridge, Anatomy School), W M Long (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority), Dr J C Trevor (lecturer in Anthropology, University of Cambridge), K P Oakley (Department of Geology, British Museum), and S A Barnett (Department of Zoology, the University of Glasgow).

Includes reprints of 'The Australopithecine Milk Canines' (Nature, 8 Aug 1953, vol. 172), 'Statistical Methods in Anthropology' (Nature, 3 Nov 1951, vol. 168) and 'Statistics of discrimination in anthropology' (American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 10, no. 4, Dec 1952) by Bronowski and W M Long, and related articles by other authors.

Also includes: a press release (1953) from Science Service (The Institution for the Popularization of Science, Washington D C) about Bronowski and Long's work on applying statistical methods to the study of fossilised teeth; press cuttings on the discovery of a skull in the Olduvai Gorge by Dr L S B Leakey (1959) and finds in South Africa by Dr Kenneth Oakley (1953); and annotated galley proofs of 'Statistical Methods in Anthropology' and 'The Australopithecine Milk Canines' by Bronowski and Long.

Additionally includes a letter from the BBC on Bronowski agreeing to help in a feature on 'The Impact of the Physical Sciences' (Jan 1952).

Foundation dinner - January 1st 1824

1 bottle of sherry in hall - 0.4.8
2 bottles of Port in Combination - 0.10.0
Brandy in hall - 0.1.6
£0.16.2

Received December 4th 1824
R Butt

Consists of a typescript and carbon copy (with a few annotations) of an address by Bronowski on 'Foundations of Equality' for a symposium on 'The Making of a Global Society' at International House, New York (14-15 May 1974). Also includes a letter from Erik Wensberg (Editor, The Columbia Forum) on the success of Bronowski's address and showing of the first programme of 'The Ascent of Man' at the symposium.