Further correpondence, surveys, valuations etc, leading to the sale of the farm to its sitting tenant in August 1960.
Discussions about selling the Farm, its value, necessary inprovements (e.g. drainage), involving the Rector, T.H.W.Clapton, the Bishop of ely (Harold Edward Wynn), the Ely Diocesan Board of Finance, surveyors (J. Carter Jonas & Sons). The College refused to sell at first, and took out a loan for improvements,
"Lord, in this thy mercies' day" for voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass). Arranged from E. H. 76 by Peter Hurford (tune slightly altered). Key: E minor.
Hurford, Peter (1930-2019), British organist and composerFile of photographs taken by Laurence Picken while travelling in Yugoslavia, kept with a cutting from a newspaper in Russian featuring an image of Picken with three others beneath a headline 'English Scientific Expedition' (annotated in pencil '1935-9 Lake Ochrid').
Many of the prints are annotated on the back by Picken, and many include his friend Franc Fortunat.
The first print in the file is a contemporary studio portrait of Laurence Picken taken in Geneva, annotated 'LP young'.
Consists of a letter from Charlotte Willard (undated, New York) asking Bronowski to be interviewed for Boy's Life and sending a copy of an article by her in Look, with a reply from Bronowski (declining to be interviewed).
Consists of a copy of 'What is Biology About?' [paper from a conference on 'Chance and Creativity' at Villa Serbelloni, 1972] and a photocopy of a letter to Nature entitled 'Holographic Model of Temporal Recall', with an envelope listing the contents.
Programme for a BBC Radio 3 Invitation concert at Selwyn College given by the London Sinfonietta conducted by David Atherton on Sunday 6th February 1972 at 8.45pm
Works performed:
Roberto Gerhard, Gemini
Bach, Partita no 6 in e for harpsichord (Harpsichord: Colin Tilney)
Gerhard, Concerto for eight
Gerhard, Libra
de Falla, Harpsichord Concerto
Selwyn College Music SocietyInvitation - The Athenaeum, pall Mall, 7 Nov 2002
List of attendees - The Oyster Shed, undated c. 2013
List of attendees - The Oyster Shed, 4 Nov 2014
List of attendees - Benugos, Deloitte LLP, 3 Nov 2015
Memorandum of the London lease
The Master of Jesus College
Summary: by a letter from Mr Piper, it is revealed he will be here for a day on his way from Yorkshire to London. Requests a church for Wright and says he will give him the money.
Signed by J A Brown
Knight William Young lease 25,4. Examining and ruling, paging, indexing. Two planks fixed. Scales. Cleaning.
Godfrey Ambrose Towns, 23, 32 lease. Examining, ruling, paging, indexing. Reduced on account of the size of the Gk.
Licence of alienation Fulwood. Indexing and paging.
Giffand, Richard lease 22,2. Ruling, paging, indexing, examining. Plan and scale fixed.
Keach, Mary lease 22, 40. Examining, ruling and paging. Plan and scale very large, description.
Lamb and Jones, 24, 21 lease. Examining source, ruling and paging. Large plan, scale, colouring.
Hampton, Francis, 29,11 lease. Examining, ruling. Plan, scale, colouring, description.
James, Elizabeth Mary, 21, 16 lease. Examining and ruling. Plan very large, description, scale, colouring.
Oman, William, lease 21, 10. Examining and ruling. No plan.
Oman, William [...] to Heygate. Examining and ruling.
Walden George [...] lease 23, 12. Examining and ruling. Large plan, scale, description, colouring.
Fann[...], John, 27, 15 years. Examining and ruling. Reduced plan, [...] in description, reduced.
Bonham, Avery, 26, 20 lease. Examining and ruling. No plan [...] to both.
James, John alienation to [...] 12, 20. Examining and paging. No plan.
Paceston, William lease 25, 29. Examining and ruling. No plan.
George, Elizabeth lease 29, 17. Examining and ruling. Plan and scale, description, colouring.
James, John to Rev'd Fry 12, 15. Examining, ruling, and plan with scale.
James, John to son 12, 27. Examining, ruling, plan with scale. Book by [...]. Postage, booking [...] paper. Copy of list of labours and work to loft at College, with books . Paging books to the end [...].
Total £8 7s 8d. Settled in full of all demands 1st July 1814. Signed by W Shield.
Shield, Mr. W.Account booklet containing rental breakdown, including property, lad taxes and commission for college-owned properties in London:
1) 60-63 Aldermanbury. Rent received due Christmas 1920 (£176) from S. Smith (March 1921)
2) 60-63 Aldermanbury. Rent received due Ladyday 1921 (£110) from S. Smith (June 1921)
3) 60-63 Aldermanbury. Rent received due Midsummer (£110) from S. Smith (September 1921)
4) 60-63 Aldermanbury and 16/17 Addle Street. Rent received due Michaelmas (184p;12s) from Sir Smith, Brandshaw, Oatlery and Litto (November 1921)
List of attendees at the JCCS London dinner held at the Oxford and Cambridge Club
This document details the account for London rentals for Dr the Master and Fellows of Jesus College, in account with Dr Barnes and Bernard. On the left side, it totals up various charges for repairs, acquittance, various taxes, for various people and properties. On the right side, it totals up Phoenix Assurance Company's premium and duty for multiple properties; commission on rent; and cash to the Reverend Corrie's account. Both sides total £175 18s 9d each.
Contains audio of an informal talk that Bronowski gave at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Santa Barbara, California.
Lodge accounts from January 15th 1833 to July 13th 1833, inlcudes fireing the chimney pot, bricklaying, emptying cesspools, raising chimney and plastering the bottom, whitewashing the kitchn and pantry, new furnace to oven, finishing plastering on staircase, running beeds(?)/ Total of £8 12s 9d.
Also noted July 13th falling trees & clearing away, part of them about 20 in number. Total of 7s.
John Turner & SonReceipt for work done by John Vail and Son (General Smiths, Bell Hangers, 1 Post Office Terrace) at Mr [Joseph] Sturton's lodgings in November 1875. Work includes: taking front door lock off, cleaning, repairing and refixing; replace back door lock; new cap staples and tumblers; oiling door bolts by removing staples; new 8-inch slock lock and key, fixed with screws to back gate clearing; cutting edging off verandah [sic], straightening and repairing the same with solder and time; taking off iron gate lock, cleaning repairing, one new key, refixing, and taking step up toe of gate and refixing with lead; cleaning out and replacing the back gutter of house; repairing a mortice lock and afixing a new tumbler; repairing lock of keeping room (new end to bolt), easing door plate, and oiling several locks. Settled and signed by John Vail and Son, then signed off as correct by Richard Reynolds Rowe, College architect.
Vail, JohnComprises correspondence, with Lock Haven State College (Pennsylvania), relating to Bronowski giving a lecture at the College on 'The Meaning of Science in Human Culture' for the College's centenary celebrations (14 Oct 1970).
Also includes: correspondence with Harriette Furst on Bronowski staying with her when visiting Lock Haven; correspondence with the division of Natural Sciences at the College on Bronowski providing academic awards; and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].
Paperwork relating to the loan of items by the College to external organisations. Includes paperwork and notes relating to the distribution and loan of College artwork to Fellows during WWII, including photographs of paintings sent away, 1940-1, correspondence concerning temporary storage of Mary Queen of Scots painting by W. H. Mills, 10th December 1940, temporary storage of painting of W. Watt painting by W. Sinker, 19th December 1940. Also notes relating to precautions to remove and replace the historic glass in the Old Library and potentially replace with 'rubberised felt as has been used for the Hall and Chapel', October 1940; paperwork and notes relating to the loan of items by Pugin to the Fitzwilliam Museum for an exhibition on William Morris, September 1980; Loan of paintings to the Master's Lodge from the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1998;
Papers relating to the loan of material from the Old Library and Archives, including loan of Samuel Taylor Coleridge material for an exhibition at Cambridge University Library, 1991; Loan of portrait of Thomas Cranmer, Cranmer's copy of Erasmus' New Testament and copy of Thomas More's Confutation of Tyndale for University of Cambridge Foundations for the Future exhibition at Christies, January 1995
Livre d'Orgue. Sept Pièces pour Orgue [Organ Book. Seven pieces for organ]. By Olivier Messiaen.
Published by Alphonse Leduc, Paris.
Contents:
- I. Reprises par intervension
- II. Pièce en trio (Pour le Dimanche de la Sainte-Trinité)
- III. Les Mains de l'abîme (Pour les Temps de Pénitence)
- IV. Chants d'oiseaux
- V. Pièce en trio (Pour le Dimanche de la Sainte-Trinité)
- VI. Les Yeux dans les roues (Pour le Dimanche de Pentecôte)
- VII. Soixante-Quatre durées
Administrative records of church livings owned by Jesus College. Most material runs to about the 1940s, there is some later correspondence about the history of various livings, e.g. by the church recordeers NADFAS (National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies).
Request (by E. Jodrell Hopkins) to have cheque for rent at Jesus Lane due 25th December from the Bursar at Jesus College (£82 10s 0d + Tax £24 15s 0d = £57 15s 0d)
Hopkins & Company, Livery Stable keepersTranscription disk of live recording on two sides of a vinyl LP of a performance of medieval music by The Jesus Singers and Orchestra. No date or venue for the performance is given.
Matrix no WIM/UMP/LP-6
Picken, LaurenceTranscription copy of a live recording on two sides of a vinyl LP disk of the Jesus College Music Society Mystery Play in December 1964.
Matrix no BEV LP 231, BEV LP 232
MJB Recording and Transcription ServiceLive recording of a performance of the May Week Entertainment, a masque called The Seasons at Jesus College on 13 June 1955. No indication of performers or location. Annotated [by Laurence Picken?] 'second side dud recording with fan'.
In EMI tape box, annotated 'SCOTCH BOY MC II-III 3660' 1 JOIN'
University Recording CompanyLive recordings of the 1948 Nativity Festival performance at Jesus College across 18 sides of nine shellac disks. Typescript list of contents included.
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Side A Josquin, Et incarnatus est - Ave Coelorum Domina
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Side B Song of the Nuns of Chester - Kotter, Organ prelude
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Side A Motets on 'Haec Dies'
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Side B Carol: Angelum ad Virginem
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Side A Adam de la Halle, Rondeaux for instruments
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Side B Arbeau, Pavane
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Side A Patapan (+duplicate copy)
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Side B Spanish Carol
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Side A Alle psallite
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Side B Coventry Carol
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Side A Congaudeant
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Side B Haec Dies
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Side A Coventry Carol, Hymn to St Magnus
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Side B As I rode out
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Side A Benedicimus
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Side B Dufay Gloria
Transcription copy of a live recording on two sides of a vinyl LP disk of a Christmas Celebration performance in Jesus College Chapel in 1963. Kept with one identical copy, and the concert programme.
Matrix no: BEV LP 95, BEV LP 96
MJB Recording and Transcription ServiceTranscription copy of a live recording on four sides of 2 vinyl LP disks featuring the Jesus College Music Society performing Bach, Cantata no 11 and Blanchard, Te Deum.
Matrix no ES LP 225, ES LP 226, ES LP 227, ES LP 228
Excel ServicesRecorded in the church of St Mary The Boltons, South London, with Kathryn Jenkin (soprano) and Nicholas Ansdell-Evans (piano). Produced by Rupert Damerell.
4 copies - 2 compact discs, 2 audio cassettes.
Includes home-printed insert with texts of the songs.
Bridge in Yi area. A robe is tied across the river, on both sides of the bank. Yi ethnic people climb the rope to cross the river. Han ethnic people use bamboo-made cylinder to transport on the rope.
File of general papers apparently used by the Dean to determine certain liturgical elements of services in Chapel.
Comprises correspondence, mainly between Sylvia Fitzgerald and Larned G Bradford (Senior Editor) of Little, Brown and Company, regarding publication of 'The Ascent of Man' book in the United States.
Subjects include: royalty payments; a special educational college edition; amendments to the book contract (Dec 1974 amendment included); 'The American Scholar' magazine possibly publishing chapter 13 'The Long Childhood'; ordering copies of 'The Ascent of Man' book for the Salk Institute; granting permission for Radio Station WNYC New York to broadcast chapter 1 'Lower than the Angels'; Little, Brown and Company paying the BBC for "permissions"; the lack of availability of 'The Ascent of Man' books in Canada; corrections and reviews; possible images for the front cover of the American edition; plans for an expanded version of the book in 4 paperback volumes; publication dates; sending Larned G Bradford copies of reviews of 'The Ascent of Man' BBC publication; 'The Ascent of Man' television series being shown in Canada; and the production schedule.
Also includes: correspondence between Larned G Bradford and Bronowski about a book by Edward Keating on evolution called 'The Crouching Bison' which Bronowski advised Bradford not to publish; a list of people to send copies of 'The Ascent of Man' book; and correspondence with other publishers mainly offering to publish 'The Ascent of Man'.
Consists of typescripts of lectures, syllabuses and reading lists for an extension course from University College Hull, taught by Bronowski at Gunness, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire (1936-1937) and at Malton, North Yorkshire (Spring 1938).
Consists of typescripts of lectures, a syllabus and reading lists for an extension course from University College Hull, taught by Bronowski at Gunness, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Consists of typescripts of lectures, a syllabus and reading lists for an extension course from University College Hull, taught by Bronowski at Gunness, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire.
Comprises: a letter from Eugene Gallanter (department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York and chairman of the committee on Literacy) about the Committee on Literacy of the Council for Biology in Human Affairs (Salk Institute); a list of invited participants and an agenda for a meeting of the Committee at Columbia University (New York, 8 Apr 1970); and itineraries for Stuart Ross and [Joseph] Slater (both invited participants from the Salk Institute) for April [1970].
"Litany to the Holy Spirit" for voices in unison and organ (or piano). In E major. Words by Robert Herrick.
Published by Oxford University Press. In the series:The Oxford Choral Songs.
Duplicated typescript sheets listing services to be held, with music and Sunday preachers; mostly compiled on a weekly basis then bundled together in terms.
Consists of typescript lists of Bronowski's published work dated Aug 1967, Apr 1968, Dec 1969, Sep 1970 and Dec 1971.
Listed values of Master and Fellows' common (£148 7s 6d) and Scholars' common (£226 18s).
Master and Fellows, Jesus College