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Consists of a spiral bound volume containing: background information on the Council; a paper on 'Gene Therapy for Human Disease' by Ted Friedman and Richard Roblin (pre-publication typescript); information and a summary of a workshop on marijuana and amphetamines (Jan 1970); overviews of amphetamines and marijuana written by Jared R. Tinklenberg (Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University) for the workshop; photocopies of press cuttings about amphetamines and marijuana; and a photocopy of a press cutting about a seminar on 'Central Influences on American Life' organised by the Council.

Comprises typescripts heavily annotated [by Bronowski, and with some annotations by Sylvia Fitzgerald, to be typed up by Kathleen Verlander].

Also includes some handwritten additional material to be added in and some final programme scripts.

Comprises 'The Study of the Great Books of Science' by Simpson (St. John's College, Santa Fe) and 'The Poetry of Physics and the Physics of Poetry' by Logan (Department of Physics, University of Toronto).

Consists of two typescripts, one annotated with corrections.

Comprises a typescript of Bronowski's lecture and a typescript of an abstract of 'Science as a Human Discipline' for publication in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Consists of a draft and 2 later typescripts, and 3 copies of publication proofs (2 annotated).

Comprises annotated typescript pages and notes on chapters 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 of 'The Ascent of Man'. Includes transcriptions of film syncs shot for programmes 5 and 7.

Comprises a typescript with a couple of annotated corrections, and copies of the studies under review (annotated).

The studies are: 'A Turning Point in the History of Physics: Galileo's Discoursi' by Ernan McMullin (Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, United States); 'Theories et Concepts' by André Lichnerowicz (Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Mathematical Physics) in French; 'The Method of Physics' by Leon Rosenfeld (Nordisk Institut for Teoretisk Atomfysik, Copenhagen, Denmark); 'A Biological Outlook' by A Katchalsky (Division of Medical Physics, University of California at Berkeley); 'Science and Technology' by Kenichi Watanabe (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii); 'The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge' by Azaria Polikarov (Institute of Philosophy, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia); 'Propos sur la Science et l'Humanisme' by Carlos Chagas (Director of the Institute of Bio-Physics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) in French; and 'Oriental and Occidental Sciences: Origins, Evolution, Stagnation, Renaissance' by Willy Hartner (Institute for the History of Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany).

Consists of an unannotated copy of Bronowski's address given to the conference on 'A Search for the Meaning of the Generation Gap' (Department of Education, San Diego County, 2 Jun 1969).

Consists of a typescript (with a few annotations) of Bronowski's published poems from 1928-1940, organised by date order with a preface and a contents list.

Also includes a press cutting about the governance of City University of New York, 1965 (from inside the same envelope).

By John Ashton

Consists of a draft typescript with a few annotations of a book, on Alexander Pope and William Blake, by Bronowski [precursor to 'William Blake, A Man Without a Mask'].

Consists of typescript drafts of a book by Bronowski, on Alexander Pope and William Blake, which had been sent to publishers. Also includes a letter from a publisher recommending that the section on Blake be expanded into its own book [led to 'William Blake, a Man without a Mask'].

James Harrison to his grandson, George Chubb, the advowson of Whatfield. Also:

Gorge Chubb, son of George Chubb, to Elizabeth Jones, widow, the advowson of Whatfield, for a consideration of £700.

One includes cut and pasted sections.

Consists of a limited edition publication (number 170 of 200), signed by Laura Riding with covers by Len Lye. Printed by the Hours Press, Paris.

Consists of correspondence with Donald Tyerman ('The Economist') and Robin Denniston (Hodder and Stoughton Limited) relating to Bronowski acting as an advisor for a series of books about 'Twentieth Century Studies'.

Comprises scripts (some annotated), a transcription of a programme, and correspondence relating to a series of Science programmes (which Bronowski participated in) entitled 'Science in the Making' (1953-1954).

Also includes: a report about information obtained for the programme by Arthur Garrat; copies of articles by others on relevant topics including twins; and correspondence with George Noordhof (producer of 'Science in the Making') relating to a planned appearance by Bronowski at a session on "The Dissemination of Science by Television" at the 7th Congress of the International Scientific Film Association.

Rough notes by Tutors C. Cleave and H. A. Morgan, including material on: scholarships: candidates, examinations and elections; freshmen, including notes for a talk to freshmen; mark lists; room lists and rents of rooms out of college.

Consists of 1 page of notes on Tus [Tous, Iran] and individuals associated with the location.

Comprises photocopies of books and articles on subjects including churches in Istanbul, geometry and Mongol horse armour. Also includes notes on possible places and items to film in Turkey.

Photographs of the wedding of Tsao Tien-Chen and Hsieh Hsi-Te at Thaxted Church in Essex, at which Laurence Picken was best man (Tsao Tien-Chen was evidently a student and friend of his). Kept with earlier pictures of Tsao Tien-Chen at graduation, a news cutting about the wedding and a letter from Tsao Tien-Chen to Laurence Picken describing his leaving Cambridge in August 1952.

Comprises correspondence relating to meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute.

Also includes: lists of Trustees, Resident and Non-Resident Fellows; reports submitted to the Board of Trustees; a letter about Dr Robert Holley (Resident Fellow) winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1968; a copy of a letter from Basil O'Conner (President, The National Foundation) criticising a paper concerning reorganisation of the Board of Trustees; photocopies of newspaper articles about research at the Salk Institute; a report on financial donations to the Salk Institute in September 1968; draft minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees and of the members of the Salk Institute; and a statement by [Joseph] Slater, President of the Salk Institute about a Program of Action.

Comprises documents [to be considered at meeting of the Salk Institute Board of Trustees]: proposals on funding the Salk Institute by Jonas Salk; a statement by the Non-Resident Fellows expressing their concern about insecurity of National Foundation funding for the Salk Institute; a report on fundraising from Frank A. Rose (Chairman, Trustee Development Committee, Salk Institute); a copy of a letter from Theodore E. Gildred relating to Gildred Foundation funding for the Salk Institute; and a list of Trustees and Non-Resident Fellows.

Comprises correspondence between Bronowski, other members of the Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute, and some other staff members. Correspondents include: George S. Conn (Treasurer, Salk Institute) mainly relating to the finances of the Salk Institute; Augustus Kinzel (President, Salk Institute); William Bernbach (President, Doyle Dane Bernbach, Inc.) on Bronowski sending copies of his writings; Gerard Piel (Publisher, 'The Scientific American' journal) about a proposal for Leslie Orgel to write an article on aging; [Alan] Bullock (Vice-Chancellor, Oxford University) on keeping up-to-date with developments at the Salk Institute; Harry E Green (Senior Vice President, Container Corporation of America) on the election of foreign nationals as trustees; and Joseph Slater (President, Salk Institute) on grants from the National Foundation and Sloan Foundation (1970).

Subjects include: an application to the Ford Foundation for a grant, financial reports, and Basil O'Connor (President, The National Foundation) sending H. E. White (National Foundation) to conduct a financial review of the Salk Institute (1966, copies of letters with the National Foundation are included).

Also includes a telegram from Basil O'Connor calling for an urgent meeting of Salk Institute and National Foundation Boards of Trustees (1966), and reports sent to Trustees about the activities of the Salk Institute (1966).

Consists of minutes of a meeting of the Salk Institute Trustee Development Committee, held in New York, with reports about fundraising. Bronowski was present at the meeting in his role as Trustee.

Catalogue cards and catalogue dated 27th May 1932 listing books included in the Trotter's Charity Library (formerly the property of Henry Trotter), once held in the rectory at Graveley.

Photographs taken during a scientific mission in China in 1941, on which both Laurence Picken and Joseph Needham were present. Each print is numbered and annotated in Chinese, possibly by Picken.

File of correspondence, largely personal congratulations, concerning Laurence Picken's election as Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Correspondents include Sir Michael Atiyah (Master of Trinity), the porters of Jesus College, JRG Bradfield (Senior Bursar, Trinity), Lord Renfrew (Master of Jesus), Robin Donkin, Alan Hodgkin, Michael Waring and John Adkins.

Some letters are kept with Lawrence Picken's manuscript draft responses.

Also includes a manuscript draft of Laurence Picken's response to the letter announcing his election, July 1991.

Consists of: an autobiographical note by Bronowski, a Salk Institute Newsletter containing a special tribute to Bronowski, a programme for a tribute to Bronowski (held in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London), and an invitation to a tribute to Bronowski to be held at the Salk Institute.

Comprises correspondence relating to finding books by William Blake (some out of print) for Bronowski.

Production of Gilbert & Sullivan's, Trial by Jury and George Peele's The Old Wives' Tale, performed in the Cloisters at Jesus College during May Week on 14th June 1959 at 8.45pm. Joint production with the Literary Society

Includes list of officers, 1834-1854, and of subscriptions, 1835-1852.

Comprises material containing details of Bronowski's travel, and some travel by Rita and Clare Bronowski. Includes flight times and other travel itineraries, lists of commitments (such as lectures to give and events to attend), and accommodation details.

Also includes: a copy of a telegram from Dick Gilling [producer for 'The Ascent of Man'] on arrangements for Bronowski visiting London; contact details for individuals including Joseph Slater [Salk Institute] and people from the BBC [working on 'The Ascent of Man']; and a list of contacts in New York.

Comprises Salk Institute purchase orders and expenses claim forms (filled in by Bronowski, Kathleen Verlander and Sylvia Fitzgerald) for meals, postage, hotel rooms, transport, telephone calls, a telephone directory, library card catalogues, audio tapes and tape recorders, typewriter ribbon, picture glass, books, photocopying, newspaper cuttings about Bronowski (Sep 1974), and notice of the tribute to Bronowski to be placed in New York Times. With some notes relating to expenses and a list of telephone calls made from Bronowski's office (22 Aug 1974).

Also includes a letter and photocopies of bills relating to expenses incurred by Bronowski and Sylvia Fitzgerald visiting Miami Dade Community College, for discussions about a course based on 'The Ascent of Man'.

Comprises Salk Institute purchase orders and expenses claim forms (filled in by Bronowski, Kathleen Verlander and Sylvia Fitzgerald) for expense and account books, supplies for a rug making party, typewriter repair, transport, parking, a teapot, a magazine, meals, photographs, a service call for a calculator, [telephone] directories, telephone calls, books, hotel rooms, and postage.

Also includes a letter ordering photographic prints, and photocopies of receipts/invoices.

Expenses claim forms include details of meetings and other events that Bronowski attended.

Consists of Salk Institute purchase orders (filled in by Bronowski, Kathleen Verlander and Sylvia Fitzgerald) for lunch, travel, a magazine, and [telephone] directories.

Comprises Salk Institute purchase orders and expenses claim forms (filled in by Bronowski, Kathleen Murray and Sylvia Hodgson) for transport, meals, hotel rooms, telephone calls, a calendar and repair of a pen.

Also includes photocopies of receipts/invoices, a note and guest list for a dinner party for John Platt hosted by Bronowski and Leslie Orgel at Del Charro Hotel in La Jolla (Feb 1970), and a note to the accounting department about a lunch for Peter Reynolds and Dr Orgel at the Del Charro Hotel (Jun 1970).

Expense claim forms include details of trips to New York.

Comprises Salk Institute expenses claim forms, including details of events or meetings attended, (filled in by Bronowski and Sylvia Hodgson) for transport, hotel rooms, meals, telephone calls, and entertaining visitors. Also includes a purchase order for copies of 'Nature and Knowledge' (book by Bronowski) and copies of receipts/invoices.

Comprises Salk Institute expenses claim forms, including details of meetings, (filled in by Bronowski, Sylvia Hodgson and Kathleen Murray) for transport, hotel rooms, meals, telephone calls, laundry, reprints of an article by Bronowski, books by Bronowski (for Joseph Slater's office, the Salk Institute), postage and a piece of glass for a picture. Also includes a copy of a bill and memoranda relating to a bill from Del Charro hotel (La Jolla).

Comprises Salk Institute expenses claim forms (filled in by Bronowski) for meals, copies of 'Who's Who' biographical directory, a hotel room, a telephone call and transport. Expense forms mostly contain details of lunches and dinners with guests.

Also includes a memorandum from [George] S Conn (Salk Institute Manager) about problems with American Express company credit cards.

Comprises Salk Institute expenses claim forms (filled in by Bronowski and Sylvia Hodgson) for meals, hotel rooms, telephone calls, transport, reprints of an article by Bronowski, and a conference registration fee. Expense forms contain details of lunches and dinners with guests, meetings and other events.

Also includes: copies of invoices for car hire and receipts; and a memorandum from Bronowski to the Salk Institute accounting office returning money that the Institute had paid for air fares.

A Release and Indemnity, from the new Rector the Revd John Warren, to Messrs Fiske and Day, Trustees for the money given by William Coppard: the fnd stands at £499.4.5. The deed is dated 28 February 1829, there are two preliminary notes from Nevile Day, and one from John Warren, about the exact terms etc.

Comprises transcripts of: 'Frankly Speaking' radio interview with Mary Stocks and John Maddox (Feb 1964); 'Desert Island Discs' radio interview with Roy Plomley (Jan 1974); 'Day at Night' television interview with James Day (Jun 1974); and an unbroadcast meeting with people including science writers and editors (which was held at the request of Time-Life Films) to discuss 'The Ascent of Man' television series (Nov 1972).

Also includes a list of those that attended the meeting to discuss 'The Ascent of Man' television series and a note from Time-Life Films on sending Bronowski the draft transcript.

Contains: a transcript of 'Bronowski on God' (Ascent of Man discussion) [radio programme] chaired by Dr R Reid in discussion with Bronowski and Professor D Burke (recorded 2 Nov 1973, broadcast 26 Feb 1974); a transcript of 'Time of My Life' (broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 16 Dec 1973) in which Bronowski discussed his life between 1927 and 1932; a photocopy of a transcript of 'Time of My Life' which has the additional annotation that it was repeated on Radio 4 on 3 Aug 1974; an annotated transcript of 'Desert Island Discs' (recorded 31 Dec 1973, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 5 Jan 1974); a transcript of 'The Brains Trust' BBC television programme featuring Bronowski, Norman Fisher (Chairman), Alan Bullock, Noel Annan, Sir Eric James (15 Dec 1957); and a transcript of 'Any Questions' broadcast on BBC Light Programme radio station, featuring Freddy Grisewood (question master), Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Bronowski, Sir Robert Boothby and the Rt. Hon. Harold Wilson MP (17 May 1957).

The photocopy of the transcript of 'Time of My Life' was in a folder annotated "replacement from Timothy Sandefur, 2008".

Comprises an annotated [by Sylvia Fitzgerald] transcription, with memoranda between Philip Mettger, Bronowski and Sylvia Fitzgerald about the transcription.