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Comprises agendas and minutes of meetings of the Salk Institute Library Committee, with related documents and memoranda. Includes a memorandum by Douglas W. Bryant (University Librarian, Harvard University) about planning for the Salk Institute Library (Apr 1968), which was based on a visit to the Institute and conferences with the President, Fellows and other members of staff.

Comprises agendas and minutes of meetings of the Salk Institute Library Committee with related documents including: summaries of holdings and acquisitions, regular ("weekly highlights") reports on the activities of the Library, an annual report for the Library (1966), and details of expenditure and the budget for the Library.

Comprises a list detailing journal title and location in the Salk Institute. With a rough draft list.

Receipt for insurance of printed books in the library £3 7s 6d, from Sun Fire Office

Includes petty cash notebooks, 1960 - 92; Summaries of accounts and expenditures for Library, 1955-93; Purchase books listing book titles and costs of acquisition, 1957 - 1983;

Comprises correspondence relating to plans to expand the Salk Institute Library. Includes: internal memoranda; letters from Polly Whalen (Librarian) to Bronowski about the plans and details including furniture and seeking advice from other librarians; correspondence with Douglas W. Bryant (Harvard University Librarian) on visiting the Salk Institute and advising on the expansion; and a memorandum from Rita Bronowski on library furniture.

Also includes reports and papers on proposals for the expansion of the library.

Comprises minutes of a Salk Institute Library Committee meeting, a memorandum from Pauline Whalen [Librarian] to Bronowski about the meeting, and memoranda about borrowing from the Library. Also includes statistics from the Library for 1968-1970.

Comprises: minutes of a Salk Institute Library Committee meeting; a memorandum from Pauline Whalen [Librarian] to Bronowski about the meeting, with a copy of a letter from Whalen to the Science Information Association about abstracts of papers about Biology and Chemistry; a note of University of California charges for photocopying; statistics from the Library for Jul 1972 - Jan 1973; a record of operating expenses for the Library in 1972; a memorandum from [Roger] Guillemin to Bronowski about an idea for the Library having up to date publications by Salk Institute members of staff; a copy of a letter from Whalen about plans to expand the Library subject areas; and a note from Whalen to Bronowski about paying a volunteer for help in the Library.

Comprises: minutes of a Salk Institute Library Committee meeting; a memorandum to the Library Committee from Pauline Whalen [Librarian] on purchasing a new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and recommended journals; photocopies of advertisements for journals; a list of members of the Library Committee with a note from Rita Bronowski on a "rug laying" party and the work of the Rug Making Committee.

Includes agendas, minutes and associated papers, 1968-96

Green metal box containing envelopes of paper letters and numbers used to stick on box to identify classmarks.

Contains cards from library card catalogue.

Volume of accounts relating to the Old Library audited by Fellows and so containing Fellows signatures. Alternate pages left blank for notes and occasional notes of books purchased for the Library. From 1749 in come from the Tempsford estate was paid to the Dean (Librarian) by the bursar. from 1797 the Dean kept the accounts of the Tempsford estate. Near the end of the book is a resolution made 1st December 1804 where Fellows were to desist from giving a supper on their election and instead to give six guineas to the library fund. The money to be applied to repairs to the library. Rent of the Tempsford estate to be used only for the purchase of books. Also includes accounts of Fellows' fees 1806-10 and 1820-38.

Includes agendas, minutes and associated papers.

Valuation of contents of Old Library. Arranged by shelf mark. Probably an old catalogue marked up with valuations.

Volume of accounts relating to the Old Library, Shield and War Memorial Libraries. Lists general payments to library staff including the Librarian, sub-Librarian, Library caretaker, expenses involved with bookbinding, insurance, some book purchases, collection purchases, electricity bills, stationery, furniture purchases, cataloguing and payments to individuals who undertook work on the fabric of the Library building. Also gate fines and sale of books and furniture.

Comprises correspondence with Gilbert Seldes (The Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania) relating to a proposal for Seldes to advise Bronowski on a bibliography of work on the relation between science and humanities, for the Salk Institute Library.

Comprises correspondence (mainly with Librarians and other members of the Salk Institute) relating to the Salk Institute Library on subjects including purchasing books and journals, review of plans for the Library, expenditures, furniture, membership and meetings of the Library Committee, reorganisations of the Library, staffing, borrowing procedures, funds raised by the Women's Association for the Salk Institute, and arrangements with the University of California at San Diego for members of the Salk Institute to use the University library.

Includes: a copy of a letter from Bronowski to Philip A. Larkin (Librarian, University of Hull) asking if Larkin would be interested in the job of Librarian at the Salk Institute; a copy of a memorandum from Bronowski to John Hunt (Salk Institute) requesting funds for the Archive [of Contemporary Biology] and the Szilard Collection to be added to the Salk Institute budget for 1969-70; and correspondence between Polly Whalen and Richard Blackwell (Blackwell's bookshop, Oxford) regarding Blackwell visiting the Salk Institute and searching for an article for Bronowski.

Also includes a notice about the appointment of a Senior Librarian (Frederic M. West) and a summary of Library procedures (1968).

Comprises expense claim forms, memoranda and correspondence (between members and staff of the Salk Institute) about spending and grants for the Salk Institute Library. Includes a summary of the number of bound volumes in the Library (1964), and a memorandum on paying Professor Fred Sommers (Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University) for consultancy work for the Library.

Receipt from H. A. Woodham, librarian for the payment of £10.

Includes poem written to College Librarian Rhona Watson by Robert Christian (1962) following a visit by him to the Library in April 2017;

Comprises letters of application for the role of Librarian at the Salk Institute, with some curricula vitae and follow up correspondence arranging interviews.

Consists of a reprint from Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (journal).

Satirical pamphlet, printed and laid out like College statutes, listing the rules of the Order, which was a subset of the Roosters debating society.

Details money either going to or being received from a Mr Bruce and Mr Simmonds for the Ley Foundation [possibly related to the Ley Fellowship?], split into a payment for each year, for a total of £369 10s 8d, with £60 being subtracted from the second payment but not appearing to have been subtracted from the total.

Ley Fellowship Book Contains: notice of a vacancy of a Ley Fellowship (flyleaf); copy of the Will of Sarah Jones of Newport, Shropshire, 1825, in which £6000 was left to the College to endow three fellowships in memory of the donor's father, Thomas Dummer Ley; indenture between the Master and Fellows and John Kynaston, trustee, transferring the money, 1839; regulations for elections of the Ley Fellows and management of the fellowships.

With an envelope listing the reprint.

Consists of a reprint from 'To Honor Roman Jakobson: Essays on the occasion of his seventieth birthday', signed and sent to Bronowski by the author (annotated "With thanks and congratulations on your enlightening paper").

Correspondence between Hugh Shield (Bursar), the Great Eastern Railway Company and the London & North Western Railway concerning permanently closing the level crossing [the railway companies wanted this due the high level of traffic on the line and the College needed to access the field it owned to the west of the line]

Letter from the Vicar to the Master, that the Vicarage is to be let to Mr Worthy, one of the regular Trinity Hall lodging housekeepers, for £125 p.a.

Correspondents include Helen Lennox (wife of Ed Lennox), Freeman and Imme Dyson, Lady Mabel Ritchie-Calder, Ralph Burhoe [editor of Zygon magazine], Sam Wanamaker, Sid Colin [relation of Rita], Aubrey Singer, Gerald Holton (The Physics Laboratories, Harvard University), Anne and Joseph Slater, Richard Drewer and John Fisher (Michael Parkinson programme), Jess and Alan Sleath, Alvin White (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California), Leo [Baron], George Steedman, Jacques Monod, Mary-Averett Seelye, Reverend Michael Brierley (Worcester, United Kingdom), [Vladimir] Rojansky, Jane Mair (BBC, sending a newspaper cutting on 'Voyage Round a Twentieth Century Skull' - included), Ronald Bevan, Paul Berg (Stanford University Medical Center, department of Biochemistry), Dorothy Zinberg, and Bob Piddington (Agricultural Research Council at Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

Also includes: a condolence letter to Harry Boardman (Salk Institute) from Bernice Neugarten (The University of Chicago); condolence letters to Jonas Salk from the Right Hon. Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Fredi Chiapelli (University of California at Los Angeles), George A Sacher (Argonne National Laboratory), Gifford Ewing and Polly and Louis Cowan (also includes copies of replies from Salk); cards with information on donations made in Bronowski's memory; a letter to Frederick de Hoffman (Salk Institute) on subjects including Bronowski's death; letters to Kathleen Verlander from N C Philips (Vice-Chancellor and Rector, University of Canterbury, New Zealand) on Bronowski having accepted a Visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury and sympathies on his death, and from Ronald Watts (Principal-elect, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada); a letter to Bronowski from a school teacher about 'The Ascent of Man'; a letter to Rita Bronowski about her article on 'Identity of Women'; a letter from Joan Travis (L S B Leakey Foundation) about scholarships given as a tribute to Bronowski for 5 young scientists to attend a conference 'On Search of Man' at Caltech and inviting Rita Bronowski to the conference and a dinner; and a press cutting of a review of 'The Ascent of Man' book (Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug 1974) with an invitation to an art exhibition at California Institute of Technology.

Letters from the Vicar, about the refusal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to make a grant towards "this miserably paid benefice". Thanks for the £60 gift from the College.

Discussion of the agreement of 1690, and whether some or all of Lord Howe's land is subject to tithe. A difficult case that needs Counsel's opinion.

Objects at length to the suggestion that Mr Marling should acquire the patronage, he "has all this people in subjection, politically, morrally and socially", and is activated by selfish and interested motives.

Urging the College to sign the agreements, as the project is ready to proceed.

Letters considering the difficulties of the living, but agreeing to accept it.

Discussing final changes to the agreement and various problems.

Mainly about restoration of the church, the work needed and the money he hopes to raise, he has accepted Mr Marling's offer to pay for some of it. Reflections on the state of the country and the church etc.

Comprises: copies of letters sent to, and published in, 'The Listener' BBC magazine about 'The Ascent of Man' series; correspondence with 'The Listener' on arranging to reply to all letters at the end of the series; and drafts and a final typescript of Bronowski's reply for publication (15 Aug 1973).

From the Vicar of Terrington St Clements, to whom the Bishop has half-promised the living: will the College sell the glebe farm and land, which will rid the living of a very real difficulty?

Letters from the Vicar about purchasing a piece of land adjacent to the Vicarage, and the necessary legal procedures.

Further details of suggested improvements and costs, thanks to the college for its help. The letter of 15 March discusses the suggested union of the parishes of Papworth St Agnes and Papworth Everard, in case this affects Graveley.

Letters from the Rector J.H. [or F.H.] George, abou the financial problems of the living. The final letter. 8 October [1926?] regrets his departure and hopes some one else will soon be found.

Further on financial arrangements, and the consent of the College.

Further on the financial situation and the hope of getting grants.

Comprises letters from Bronowski to Rita Bronowski sent from Florence (17 Sep 1971), Venice (10 Sep 1971), Le Fayet in France (13 Jul 1971), Prague and Vienna (8 Jul 1971).

Also includes a letter from Rita to Bronowski (27 Oct 1962) whilst Bronowski was in La Jolla, and a handwritten list of places and things filmed for 'The Ascent of Man' series (12 June 1972).

Comprises: a copy of a letter from Sylvia Fitzgerald to Henry Moore [sculptor] on Jacob and Rita Bronowski's intention to attend the opening of an exhibition of his work at the Toronto Gallery, and about the possibility of a memorial for Bronowski; a memorandum on the BBC memorial tribute for Bronowski; a letter from Sylvia D Bauman on 'The Ascent of Man' and having had cancer; a letter from Helen Fricker on her and Peter Fricker [composer] not having attended Bronowski's memorial service because of poor health; a reprint of 'Spontaneous cure of vitamin-D deficiency in Asians during summer in Britain' by M M Gupta, J M Round and T C B Stamp (The Lancet, 6 Apr 1974) sent and annotated by C E Dent; a copy of a letter from Kathleen Verlander to Michael Rice (WGBH Educational Foundation) sending an article from 'The San Diego Magazine'; a copy of a newspaper cutting giving notice of a hearing petition for probate of Bronowski's will; and letters to Bronowski from Seymour Benzer (California Institute of Technology) and James Boyck (concert pianist) on an idea for a television programme on classical music called 'The Participating Listener'.