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Letter from J. Carter Jonas & Sons (Land Agents) to the Bursar confirming that they had reached an agreement to let the premises to The Lowestoft Electrical Company Ltd from the 29th September at an increased rent of £52 per annum

Parties: (1) Jesus College; (2) Mr A. W. H. Easy.
Rent: £34 p.a.

Parties: (1) Mrs Elizabeth Barber, (2) Mr John Sheldrick.
Copy agreement for letting No. 4 New Square.

Agreement from signed by A. E. English that he would an additional rent at the rate of 11s per quarter as from 24 June in consideration of the College carrying out the following improvements - converting the back sitting room, ground floor to a bathroom with a W. C. suite excluding geyser to be provided by the tenant and redecorations.

Parties: (1) Jesus College, (2) Mary Metcalfe

Letter from Dr Corrie agreeing to renew the lease of the brewery premises with two houses in King Street to Mary Metcalfe on payment of £86

Parties: (1) Mrs Robinson, (2) Jesus College. Agreement to surrender the messuage and premises No. 20 Jesus Lane

£50 of the purchase money is to remain in the hands of Gilbert Hook, Fellow of the College, pending the outcome of a suit between Grey and Queen's College. Bonds by Henry Grey and the College

Correspondence and copy of legal agreement between Jesus College and the Corporation of Cambridge concerning the creation of manholes to help drain Midsummer Common.

Includes agreement between College and Claude Aurelius Elliott, fellow of Jesus College, 1914; Also notes on the rent to be charged to tenants, 1898;

Includes agreements and draft agreements for the letting of East House to R. M. Dunlop, c. 1890, Wynfred Laurence Henry Duckworth, 1907 and 1914.

Release and Quitclaim and agreement for a composition of tithes.

Comprises correspondence (mainly with Dr Howard C Mel, chairman of the symposium) relating to a symposium hosted by the University of California at Berkeley on the subject of 'Science and Humanism: Partners in Human Progress'.

Also includes copies of handwritten notes by Bronowski on 'The Evolution of Complexity' and for his lecture on 'Evolution in Twentieth Century Culture' given at the symposium, programmes for the symposium, a copy of a paper by Ralph Wendell Burhoe on 'The Relation of the Sciences to Human and Religious Values' which was given at the symposium, and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

Consists of an inscribed programme for the symposium which included Bronowski speaking on 'Evolution in Twentieth Century Culture' (24 March).

Obituary from the Times, 2nd July 2009

Copy of letter from the Director of Works, Air Ministry, that they will compulsorily purchase a piece of land adjoining Lord's Bridge Station, to build an Air Ammunition Park. With covering letter from the Rector, T.H.W. Clapton.

Plan of air raid shelter for the garden of 1 Salisbury Villas

Includes survey and report by Andrew Firebrace Partnership on condition of air raid shelter after slight damage incurred by tree falling onto roof during storm on 18th January 2018; and notes on history of air raid shelter compiled by Peter Glazebrook, 2018

Correspondence and papers relating to the landing of an airship in the College grounds in 1912.

The photographs are as follows:

1. A loose photograph of the Hall at Jesus College, Stearn & Sons, Photographers, Cambridge.

2. Part II, 1950/51 Group B. A loose card with montage thumbnail portrait photographs of the following students: Baker, D.K., Joh; Buckler, H. McC. Tr H; Engert, M.V., Cla; Holliday, R.P.M., Cla; Otway, F.O.J., Trin; Packman, G., Emm; Seib, M.R.P., Jes; Speyer, DS, Trin; Walter, G.H., Pet; Wilson, W.J., Pet.

3. A reproduction of a map of Cambridge, from Camden's Britannia, 1626, by Christopher Saxton.

4. The Home Waters of Jesus College Boat Club. A map printed in black and red, E.J.S.S. 1928

5. Jesus College 5th Boat Fairbairn Cup Races 1932.

A photograph with the following names: R.A. Cowling; C.J. Ll Jones; W.H. Melish; F.N. Leonard; F.H. Irving; N.W. Collett; W.H. Waring: A.L. Percival; J.C. Bridgman and N.S. Dickinson.

6. 1932 Fairbairn Cup Crew.

7. Jesus Coll: 4th Lent Boat, 1933.

A photograph with the following names: W.H. Melish; A.D. Brokenshaw; P.G. Masefield; A.L. Percival; P.H. Irving; J.E. Smith; L.W. James; F.N. Leonard; J.C. Bridgeman; Steve Fairbairn and Arthur Fraser

8. Jesus Coll: 4th Lent Boat, 1933.

Jesus Coll: 4th Boat, Fairbairn Cup Crew, 1933.

A photograph with the following names: G.B. Bowles; D.D. Morgan; G.H. Smith; L.W. James; A.R. Tainsh; A.T. Stockings; J.D. Usher A.L. Percival; A. Wells and A.B. Fraser.

9. 4th Boat, Fairbairn Cup Crew, 1933.

10. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1934.

A photograph with the following names: G.B. Bowles; N.W. Collett; D.L. Williams; W. Anderson; P. Willsallen; R.E. Selby; W.P. Dakin; A.L. Percival; H.L.D. Beauchamp, A.B. Fraser and S. Fairbairn.

11. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1934.

12. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1935.

A photograph with the following names: P.G. Tait; E.O.B. Grant; A.T. Stockings; S.P. Bourn; G.B. Bowles; N.W. Collett; G.M. Woodman; W.R. Milne; A.L. Percival; H.D.A. Yates, S. Fairbairn and R.T. Coulton.

13. Jesus Coll: 3rd Lent Boat, 1935.

14. Jesus Coll: 3rd May Boat, 1935.

A photograph with the following names: P.G. Tait; J.T.H. Foottit; N.C. Elliott; S.P. Bourn; R. Corbet-Ward; G.M. Woodman; N.W. Collett A.L. Percival; J.C. Bridgman; S. Fairbairn: R.T. Coulton and T.S. Cree.

15. Jesus Coll: 3rd May Boat, 1935.

16. Jesus Coll: Bump Supper, May Term 1935.

17. An untitled photograph of boating trophies.

18. An untitled photograph of Jesus College Chapel, lit up at night.

19. Three untitled photographs showing undergraduates and others.

20. A loose card with a hand-painted crest 'University of Harvard, 1636'.

21. Three loose postcards of boats on the Thames at Henley.

22. A studio portrait of an un-named woman, Ramsey & Muspratt, Photographers, Cambridge

23. 'Always thinking of you', two mounted photographs.

24. Group photograph of guides/scouts under a tree.

25. Photograph of four men around a table, with tea, set in long grass under a tree.

26. Photograph of rowing eight.

27. Photograph of rowing eight on the Cam by the Pike and Eel pub, Chesterton.

28. Photograph of a motor launch.

29. Photograph of a seasick man on a motor launch.

30. An Approximate Analysis of the Torsion of Shafts. 3 copies, 4pp, typescript.

31. '1. Basic Theory of Torsion', and '11. The hydrodynamic analogy' 9pp, typescript.

32. Jesus Breakfast Club. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, Cambridge

33. Envelope labelled 'Rooster Photos' and addressed to B.L. Manning Esq. (Senior Tutor), Jesus College, from Stearn & Sons, Photographers. The envelope contains five photographs of members of the Roosters Club, one of which is dated 1941, and a sheet of hand-drawn names for four of the photographs,

34. Bernard Manning as an undergraduate - to face the last page of chapter III

35. Bernard Manning in 1927 from a photograph by Lafayette, Ltd - to face the last page of chapter V.

36. Bernard Manning in 1940 from a photograph by C.C.E. Woodger - to face the last page of chapter VII.

37. Bernard Manning in 1940 from a photograph by C.C.E. Woodger - frontispiece

38. Jesus College Cambridge about 1925 from an air photograph - to face the first page of chapter II

39. Postcard, inscribed 'Ducking after races in Lents 1941'.

40. Postcard inscribed 'Jesus II bumping Hall I Lents 1941'.

41. With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year from F. Brittain - a loose copy of 4 above.

42. 'Bruafz Bott', a souvenir brochure from Saalfelden in the Austrian Alps.

43. 'The Gang - with congratulations and condolences', a card to A. Perceval from Hazel Guest, Newnham College, June 15th 1935.

44. A letter to A. Percival from Bernard [Manning], Jesus College, admonishing him for his over-speedy reading of grace in hall.

45. A letter to Hazel, signature of author illegible, from Dunford House, Heyshott, Midhurst, Sussex, dated April 15th.

46. A loose photograph inscribed on the reverse 'Percival, Red Herring, 1945'. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge.

47. A group photograph, without title or description, but showing a Chanticlere trophy and banner. The photograph is accompanied by a sheet of handwritten names, presumably an attempt to identify the individuals in the photograph. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge.

48. Photograph, possibly of Rooster Club members, Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge. Nd.

49. Group photograph of college members, with a separate sheet of handwritten names. Stearn & Sons, Photographers, 72 Bridge Street, Cambridge. Nd.

50. One spare sheet of paper with names written in pencil, presumably to identify individuals in a photograph above, but with no recognizable connection with the photographs above.

Comprises correspondence between Alan Sleath (senior assistant to head of features group, BBC, then BBC Radio & TV Enterprises) and Bronowski or Sylvia Fitzgerald.

Subjects include: arrangements for Bronowski to visit to the United Kingdom to launch 'The Ascent of Man' including publicity and promotion on television and radio programmes (Michael Parkinson television interview, Desert Island Discs radio show, etc.); plans for the premier at the Royal Society in London (26 Apr 1973); suggested invitees for the premier; plans to show excerpts of 'The Ascent of Man' at the National Academy of Sciences [Washington D C] and the Smithsonian Museum [Washington D C] on the 23rd and 24th Apr 1973; arranging for prints of programmes 5 -7 to be made for a Copernicus symposium in Washington D C; viewing figures for original showings and repeat showings; press reaction to the television series; press conferences; Jacob and Rita Bronowski visiting London in Oct-Nov 1973; Bronowski meeting with the chairman and director general of the BBC (Nov 1973); showings of 'The Ascent of Man' films at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D C being a success; congratulations on publication of 'The Ascent of Man' book; sending a large photograph of Bronowski and an original drawing of Bronowski's head by Feliks Topolski (mounted with the names of all the BBC staff involved in the production of 'The Ascent of Man') to the United States; Aubrey Singer being made controller of BBC-2 (Jan 1974); viewing and listening figures for, and reactions to, Parkinson television interview, and 'The Time of My Life' and Desert Island Discs radio shows; selling the German rights to 'The Ascent of Man'; sending Sylvia Fitzgerald brochures on 'The Ascent of Man' produced by the BBC; arrangements for the BBC tribute to Bronowski in Broadcasting House (Jan 1975); publishing the tribute; arranging for Sylvia Fitzgerald to receive copies of 'The Ascent of Man' films; and Sylvia leaving the Salk Institute.

Also includes a copy of 'Ariel' BBC staff journal containing an article on 'The Ascent of Man' book (16 Nov 1973).

Album assembled by Dr Frederick Brittain.

Album of Trumpet Tunes (arranged for organ by Henry Coates). By Henry Purcell
Published by Edwin Ashdown Ltd., London.

Contents:

• Air
• Voluntary
• March
• Fanfare
• Cebell
• Martial Air
• Prelude and Air

Album of 39 photographs taken by Laurence Picken on a trip to Yugoslavia. '(Lake Ochrid) (Freshwater ciliata being collected)'.

Includes slip of paper with manuscript note: 'Her. Laurenc. Pite schen ei renig oel fir esen fir papriker. Ernest'.

14 x 12

Ends with a resolution to keep going in spite of wartime. The rest of the volume is blank apart from a brief list of names of payers at the back.

10⅛ x 7⅝

12⅝ x 10½. Published for R. Ackerman's History of Cambridge.

14 x 11. Published and sold by Thomas Barnwell

9⅝ x 6⅝. Published for R. Ackerman.

Includes photograph of drawing and 1996 conservation report

Includes photograph of painting, conservation reports and list of repairs made

13 x 10⅜. Published for R. Ackerman's History of Cambridge

12⅜ x 10⅜. Published for R. Ackerman's History of Cambridge.

6½ x 4⅜ image oval. Published by G. Keating and R. Brown.

Comprises correspondence on: arranging a celebration of the completion of "the Keyboard" [book project?]; sending Bronowski a copy of 'Man and Time' by J B Priestly; and Alec Laurie (science editor) on 'The Identity of Man', his grandfather's (S S Laurie) Gifford lectures (1905-6), and activities at Aldus Books including a "modern knowledge" series.

Comprises correspondence, mainly with Nicol Russel (Aldus Books Limited), relating to Bronowski acting as an editor/advisor for an encyclopaedia.

Listing expenditure on ale for workmen working on construction of new building.

Includes biographical information about Russell.

Photograph, signed by the sitter.

Includes copy of order of service for funeral, 24th April 1936; Copy of Canon and Text of the New Testament by C. R. Gregory, containing hand drawn bookplate of Nairne showing Jesus College gatehouse from the chimney. Book inscribed December 1907 from Tewin Rectory.

Photograph, signed by the sitter.

Comprises correspondence with Angus Cameron (of Alfred A Knopf, Inc. publishers) on a proposal for Bronowski to write a book on "twelve tests of modern man".

Two houses situate in King Street Parish of the Holy Trinity Cambridge. One occupied by Mr Jerrold, plumber and glazier and consists of two rooms on ground floor and yard behind on which is erected two workshps three rooms first floor and two over. House occupied by Mr Austin consists of two rooms on ground floor, three rooms over, and yard behind.Net annual value: £44 14, 3d

Comprises correspondence on setting up a committee (of which Bronowski was a member) to consider the future direction of research sponsored by the Foundation, memoranda between committee members, correspondence and papers relating to committee meetings and the production of a report.

Includes two copies (one annotated) of 'The Report of a Special Committee appointed by the Sloan Foundation' (1 May 1967).