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Balance of Mr. Kelly Stewards account Christmas 1765: £2 14s 0d for C.G.P.N.W., Dean, Mr. Wicksted, Mr. Braithwaite, made by Beridge Sted.

Ballet du Roy pour sonner après. Instrumental suite, by Michael Praetorius.
Printed score with a fragment in pencil arranged by Peter Hurford.

Comprises: annotated extracts from Bronowski's Bampton lectures on 'Magic, Science and Civilization'; a note [in Sylvia Fitzgerald's handwriting, of actions to prepare Bronowski's Silliman and Mellon lectures for publication]; a note [in Bronowski's writing] about Levi Strauss for the Bampton lectures; and 2 letters from Melvin J Lasky (Editor, Encounter) on subjects including Frances Yates' discussion of [Giordano] Bruno and 'Science and Literature' by Peter Medawar (annotated galley proofs included).

Consists of annotated extracts from Bronowski's second Bampton lecture entitled 'Black Magic and White Magic', with an annotated reprint of 'Science as a Humanistic Discipline' by Bronowski (Oct 1968).

Comprises annotated extracts from Bronowski's third Bampton lecture entitled 'The Strategy of Scientific Knowledge', with [source material].

[Source material] consists of: a reprint of 'Science in the New Humanism' by Bronowski; annotated speech notes for 'Science as a Humanistic Discipline' by Bronowski (Dec 1967) and an annotated reprint (Oct 1968); a photocopied page of handwritten notes; press cuttings about the periodic table, Alexander Pope and Atheism; copies of correspondence with E H Gombrich (Mar 1969); and a photocopy of a page from an encyclopaedia with an entry for "Theism" highlighted ("a morbid condition caused by excessive tea drinking").

Comprises notes, source material (reprints and photocopies), and a reading list from Bronowski's Silliman memorial lectures on 'The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination' (1967).

Comprises annotated extracts from Bronowski's fourth Bampton lecture entitled 'Human Plans and Civilized Values', with a copy of letters from Kristeller (Institute for Advances Studies, Princeton, School of Historical Studies), a cutting of 'Two Views of Responsible Man' by Anthony Flew, notes of quotes in French, and a press cutting about Josef Mengele (Nazi war criminal) receiving Paraguayan citizenship.

Comprises reprints, press cuttings, photocopies of articles by other authors, and correspondence with Professor Knut Erik Tranöy (Professor of Philosophy, University of Bergen and University of Maryland) on shared interests and Tranöy sending his paper on 'Moral Presuppositions and Implications of Modern Science' (included).

Comprises correspondence, mainly with Columbia University in the City of New York, on Bronowski delivering a series of 4 lectures on 'Magic, Science and Civilization' for the Bampton Lectures at the University (19-27 Mar 1969).

Also includes: typescript extracts from Bronowski's lectures on 'Magic, Science and Civilization'; a list of people to invite to the lecture and dinner; a short biography of Bronowski; a leaflet from the 1968 Bampton Lectures by Sir John Summerson on 'Victorian Architecture'; a draft itinerary for Rita and Jacob Bronowski's visit to New York (to deliver the lectures); an invitation for a dinner hosted by Dr and Mrs Andrew Cordier; a Columbia University press release about Bronowski delivering the lectures; leaflets for Bronowski's Bampton lectures; and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

Comprises annotated extracts from Bronowski's first Bampton lecture entitled 'Interpretations of Nature', with an invitation to Bronowski's Bampton lectures and [source material].

[Source material] consists of a photocopy of a page of poetry by E H Cummings, a leaflet on 'A Program for Science in Harvard College: Why it Must Succeed' with a passage about modern science being considered magical underlined, and a letter to Rita Bronowski from Gilbert Seldes sending a quote by T S Elliot.

Comprises reprints, cuttings and photocopies of articles by other authors.

Includes photograph of painting

Bill addressed to Jesus College for £300 consol bonds [...] £278 12s 6d plus 7s 6s totalling £279 from Palmer Kempe, Brokers - signed Hoares.

Invoice from Henry Hugh Hoare to Revd Dr French. Payment of 50d to Smith Payne and Smith for the use of the Rev Thomas Dicks with Mr Mortlock to Bankers at Cambridge. To William Tijon, the sum of £7 14s, as charged to the Jesus College Account. Signed Henry Hugh Hoare, 1st of Ocotober 1831.

Receipt from Henry Hugh Hoare to the Reverend Dr French dated 13 Feb 1830, from London: payment to MEP Curries to the sum of £900 for the use of William Hustler Esq. with MEP Fisher and Son(?) Barkers at Cambridge. Signed Henry Hugh Hoare.

Bank receipt for £101 10s to the credit of Mr William and Thomas Bagge, for John Mortlock Esq. & Sons from Rev Dr French. Signed J. D. Pledger.

Receipt of order of £110 13s 6d to the credit of Revered R. Merry from John Mortlock Esq. & Sons, signed C. Mortlock.

Receipt from Henry Hugh Hoare to the Reverend Dr French dated 4 Feb 1830, from London: £488 19s 3d sold for the Masters and Scholars of Jesus College Cambridge.

Notes that the produce of the above is placed to account of the college on which there is now a balance of $1184 12s 7 1/2d in its favour. Signed (?) and Henry Hugh Hoare.

Receipt from Henry Hugh Hoare to the Reverend Dr French dated 9 Jan 1830, from London: £233 6s 3d sold for the Masters and Scholars of Jesus College Cambridge.

Notes that the produce of the above is placed to account of the college on which is charged:
£107 8s 6d paid to MEP Boureriel(?) for W. Broughan(?)
£107 1s 10d paid to Mr Tancred Esq.
£106 15s paid to Mr J Aldy Esq.
£5 paid to the Eldon Testamonial in the college's name and the bank will pay W Greenwood's £109 12s 8d on application.

Noted is that a power of attorney is enclosed. Signed Henry Hugh Hoare.

Postscript: The bank urges that the college should inform them on whether the sale of cards(?) is to be deducted from the sum of £9530 5s 6d in the precise sum of £777 18s 8d.

Receipt for £17 2s 9d and £17 1s 3d paid to the account of G. Howard.

A slip of paper headed with Amsterdamsche Bank, N. V. and a serial number 53328, dated 20 March 1938.
The amounts read: £1.1 and £7.26

Bank statements

Paid to Smith Payne and Smith bankers in London £300 for your use with Mortlock & Co.

Receipt from London, stocks (?) bought for Jesus College for £132 7s 6d and £36 14s
Signed Robert Cottle broker (?), and H. Hugh Hoare

Receipt for payment of £12 into the account of Reverend A. J. Criaford/Criasord.

Banking invoice for stocks bought names of the Master or Keeper of Jesus College Cambridge. Paid £421 1s 1d and £105 5s 3d, cost of which is charged to the College's account. Signed R. W. Harrison, broker. Signed Henry Hugh Hoare. Noted at the bottom of the page: 'To Revd Dr French, with Book'.

Banking invoice for stocks bought in the names of the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Jesus College Cambridge. Paid £312 1s 8d, cost of which is charged to the College's account. Signed R. W. Harrison, broker. Signed Charles Hoare & Co. (Private Bank). Noted at the bottom of the page: 'To Revd Dr French'.

Documents issued by the County Court in relation to the bankruptcy of William Cole who had been granted a yearly tenancy of 1 Salisbury Villas

Consists of 3 reprints of articles: 'Statistics and its place in science', 'Probability and the East' and 'Probability and Behavior and Eastern Thought', with an envelope listing one of the articles.

Plan showing dimensions [roughly aligning to 71 King Street] with part coloured red indicating the subjest of the lease. Lists the occupiers of the 11 cottages as: William Bennett; William Mott; Henry Askham; Widow Lauder; Widow Catchpole; Thomas Dellar; Widow Brown; Sarah Snarey; Thomas Tingey; Margaret Broughton; William Ingram.

Written in pencil: lease for 40 years to Richard Reynolds Rowe, in consideration of his having put the houses in repair. NB this lease was never executed

Parties: (1) The Reverend James Geldart, (2) Mr James Apthorpe
Bargain and sale for a year a parcel of land measuring 247 acres and 3 roods contained in a lease and release of 11th and 12th May 1813 in St Andrews parish bounded by land belonging to James Pretlove (to the south), James Geldart (to the north and east) and Gravel Pitt Road (to the west)

Parties: (1) Samuel Welldon, (2) John Willis [Cook of Jesus College]. One of the five messuages [later number 105] erected upon the South end of the piece of ground at the bottom or East end of Walls Lane [King Street]

Parties: (1) Samuel Welldon, (2) John Langton. One of 5 houses built by Peete Musgrave now in the occupation of John Langton

Consists of draft pages of a planned Anthology of Experiments in Physics by Bronowski and Roger Partington.

With an envelope listing the reprint.

Invoice for work done from J. Webster to the Masters and Fellows of Jesus College. Details for converting a riding horse stable into a barn at West Wratton Valley Farm by stripping out the inside, putting up a new pair of doors and frame, putting up new braces and beams to the walls and repairing the tile floor. Dating from 25 July 1829 to 28 November 1829. Total of £75 10 1/2d.

Receipt for work done at the Valley Farm from the Revd Dr French to J. Webster recieved 24 April 1830. Total of £75 10 1/2d. Signed by J. Webster.

Invoice for work done to the Valley Farm from Mr Webster to Thomas Safford (?). Details various ironwork dating from 25 June 1829 to 3 August 1829. Total of £5 14s 5d.

Receipt for work done at the Valley Farm from the Revd Dr French to Thomas Safford recieved 24 April 1830. Total of £5 14s 5d. Signed by Thomas Safford (?).

Notes relating to the establishment of the Barnaby Fund and Rede Lectures, including list of those who gave the Rede lectures from 1668 to 1856, noting their College affiliation and subject.

Paid £3 4s to Browne as the stipend for the Barnaby lecture.

Paid £3 4s to Philpott as the stipend for the Barnaby lecture.

Paid £3 4s to Cookson as the stipend for the Barnaby lecture in logic.