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Solemn Melody. By Walford Davies.
Arranged by John E. West.
Published by Novello & Company Ltd., London.

Includes section of soil of wilderness area to the west of Front Court, August 1938

Poster for a student protest trip to Colchester supporting students arrested during unrest at Essex University in 1974

Consists of: a copy of a memorandum from Bronowski to Robert Mang (Salk Institute) on developments in biology which Bronowski discussed with James Watson (Harvard University and Cold Spring Harbor) and Watson hoped that the Salk Institute would become involved in; and a copy of a letter from Stuart Ross (Programs Officer, Salk Institute) to Dr Sheldon C. Reed (Dight Institute for Human Genetics) about Reed's work on intelligence and genetics.

The developments in biology which Watson and Bronowski discussed were: a proposed international meeting to decide on a program on human genetics which could be put to the United States Government for support; and developments in cloning.

Comprises correspondence relating to Bronowski giving a lecture on 'The Logic of the Mind' for a joint Sigma Xi and Phi Beta Kappa address (29 Dec 1965) during a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Berkeley, California. Subjects include preparing an abstract of Bronowski's paper, editing and publication of 'The Logic of the Mind' in The American Scholar (journal), American Scientist (journal) and in 'Science in Progress' (a volume of national lectures from the Society of the Sigma Xi), ordering reprints, discussion of subjects in Bronowski's lecture, and Bronowski requesting permission to include 'The Logic of the Mind' in a revised edition of 'The Identity of Man' book.

Also includes: an announcement about the AAAS meeting in Berkeley (Science, vol. 148); an 'AAAS Bulletin' (Nov 1965) about the forthcoming meeting, a press cutting of 'The Logic of the Mind' from 'Nature' (19 Mar 1966); a non-technical abstract of 'The Logic of the Mind'; and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

Comprises correspondence relating to 2 symposia on 'The Contemporary Hereditary-Environment Controversy' (New Orleans, 30 Aug 1974). Bronowski planned to participate in the first symposium on 'Historical, Societal and Psychological Factors' but cancelled due to illness. Correspondents are: Ethel Tobach (Curator, Department of Animal Behaviour, The American Museum of Natural History), Harold M Proshansky (President, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York) and Harry J Jerison (Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles).

Also includes: copies of papers by other symposia participants; copies of letters and papers relevant to debates over the effect of hereditary and environmental factors on IQ sent to Bronowski from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

Includes menus

Including minutes, notices and associated papers

A series of correspondence with societies, other similar organisations, and some individuals, mainly inviting Bronowski to speak, write or attend events, with copies of replies declining.

Consists of a booklet (in a series of Annals of Mathematics Studies, no. 47) published by Princeton University Press, with an envelope listing the booklet.

Comprises correspondence on 'The Ascent of Man' films being shown by the Smithsonian Institute [mainly at the National Museum of Natural History] in Washington D C, related events and talks given by Bronowski.

Includes correspondence on: the press showing (26 Nov 1973); first public showing (28 Nov 1973); Bronowski speaking to a meeting of community, civic and government leaders (Feb 1974); Bronowski introducing programme 13 and answering questions (24 Feb 1974); Bronowski speaking to the Smithsonian luncheon group (26 Feb 1974) and the Smithsonian Associates (16 May 1974); and the number of showings being increased due to popular demand.

Also includes: lists of people to be invited to the press screening, first public showing, and a V.I.P. party; invitations to events and dinners; a copy of Science News (vol. 104, 8 Dec 1973) containing an article on 'The Ascent of Man' and an interview with Bronowski; a photocopy of an article in the Washington Post (27 Nov 1973) on 'The Ascent of Man'; a draft schedule for Bronowski's visit to Washington D C (21-28 Feb 1974); and a letter to Harry [Boardman, Salk Institute] from Wilton Dillon (Smithsonian) on Bronowski's death.

Comprises correspondence with the Smithsonian Institution (Washington D C) on inviting Bronowski to participate in the bicentennial celebrations of the birth of James Smithsonian (Sep 1965). Bronowski accepted the invitation, but then cancelled his attendance.

Also includes a preliminary programme for the celebrations.

15s paid to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including great and small jacks, laying pokers, mending a spit, and adding powder to the Great Range. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £1 2s 4d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: laying pokers, and mending pails, stillyards, and stove hoops.

Paid 6s 6d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: laying pokers, mending line, cleaning jacks, and adding iron pokers.

Paid 11s 6d to Thomas Coe. For: jacks, shovel, spitt and mending pale. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 5s to Thomas Coe. For jack, pale and pookes. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 11s 2 3/4d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of cleaning the jack, new copper bars, and straightening and mending the old copper bars. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 8s 5 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For: cleaning jack, new point to a spitt, straighting barrs, adding to poker and fixing wheel.

Paid 6s 7d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending a port hook, laying a poker and mending the lock for the outer door. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 7s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jakes, pokers, mending a lock, and mending a copper door. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid £2 4s to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending stoves, adding a bar to a round stove, putting new bars on a square stove, laying a poker, a key and mending the lock on the outer door, and hooks for the plummers [plumbers]. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 16s 10d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, a large gridiron, mending a pot hook, and adding iron to a poker. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 12s 6d to Thomas Coe. For: new spitt wheell, spitts, cleaned jack, laid a poker and straightening stove barrs.

Paid 7s 3d to Thomas Coe for new jack line, mending a ladle, mending a trivet, cleaning a jack and hinges.

8s 6d paid to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including close jacks, pokers, and mending a lock. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 4s 6d for smith's work in the kitchen in 1773 of great and small jacks and laying pokers. Paid 5s 6d and signed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen in 1773 of great and small jacks, pokers, and laying pokers. Paid £2 2d and signed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen in 1772 including: great and small jacks, jack line, laying pokers, and pokers. Paid 7s and signed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen in 1773 of great and small jacks, laying poker, jack line and mending a large gridiron. All undated. Bundled together with outside saying received in full by Thomas Coe.

Paid to John Apsey £3 6s 11d for repairs in the kitchen, including mending a tea kettle, and a two-handle pan and lining various pots and pans (October 1770). Paid to John Apsey £1 11s 5d for repairs in the kitchen, including mending a stewpan and saucepan, lining pans, and purchasing plates (December 1769).

Paid 13s 6d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks and the small range, laying pokers, mending the copper door, and laying and mending bars on the copper door.

Paid £1 10s 11d to Thomas Coe and witnessed by Jonathan James for smith's work in the kitchen, including: cleaning jacks, mending the chafing dish, adding iron to the range, laying pokers, providing a shovel, and mending copper bars and a copper door.

Paid 13s 9d to Thomas Coe. Work included: jacks, fixing jack line, hookes.

Paid £1 3s 5 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For work to range and jacks.

Paid 6s 6d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen of cleaning a jack, mending the range bar, making a chopping knife, and adding iron to the poker. Also signed by Jonathan James.

15s 10d paid to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the kitchen, including copper bars, and great and small close jacks. Also signed by Jonathan James.

Paid 9s 4d to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including jacks, jack line, pokers, mend pails, and fixing pulleys. Paid 11s 6d to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including jacks, pokers, and line. Paid 12s to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including jacks, pokers, a lock for the kitchen door, fixing a long poker, and fixing the spit sack. Paid £1 4d to Thomas Coe for work in the kitchen including pokers, mending stove hoop, mending bars, mending jack pulleys, laying pokers, and candlesticks. All also signed by Jonathan James and all dated to 17th December.

Paid 8s to Thomas Coe. For spits, jacks and stove handel. Examined by Jonathan James.

Paid 12s 1d to Thomas Coe. For: new shovel handle, mending stoke tongs and lever, new poker, cleaning jack.

On the reverse side of the first item: Received of Dr Caryl. Paid 4£ 1s 9d the sum of the Christmas 1760 bill, the Lady Day 1761 bill, the Midsummer 1761 bill and the Michaelmas 1761 bill. Signed by the smith Thomas Coe.

Midsummer and Michaelmas 1761 [same item]: £1 15s 7d including a key for the Fellows Garden for the porter, hooks, hangs, mending the lock of the Fellows Garden, brackets in barbershop, mending and fixing the gate next Jesus Lane, spikes, pins.

From March 1761 to June 1761 [2nd item]: 11s 9d including mending gates' locks, hooks, spikes into Fellows close, new locks, hasp staples, handles hook in Fellows Garden, chain staples in the library, new locks and keys for iron gates, holdfasts and hangs in Masters Garden, hanging a new scythe, staples and fixing in Masters Garden, staples and mending lock of the Masters close.

From December 1760 to March 1761 [3rd item]: 14s including mending iron stop to gate, mending locks and keys, padlocks for the Garlick gates, new locks and keys, harp staples for the Fellows Stable, a new spring and a new lock for Richardson's stairs, spikes for the Fellows Garden.

Michaelmas and Christmas 1760 [4th item]: £1 0s 5d including a key to parlor for the porter, hooks and staples used for Mr Tywhitt's staircase, nails for fixing the doorframe next 'Dungell' [?], mending locks, a padlock with 2 keys for the door, a gaimb for the doors of Pocklington and Darby, holdfasters and hooks.

Paid to Thomas Coe 14s 8d, for work in the kitchen, includes payment for pulleys and jack lines (July 1770). Paid to Thomas Coe £1 10s 10d, for work in the kitchen, includes payment for pokers, jacks, and pans (January 1770). Paid to Thomas Coe £1 7s, for work in the kitchen, includes payment for pokers and jack line (July 1770). Paid to Thomas Coe 6s 6d, for work in the kitchen, includes payment for pokers, and jack line (July 1770). All bills also signed by Jonathan James, cook, confirming execution of work by Coe.

Paid to Bartholomew Fuller for work done in the kitchen, including payments for mending four bars on the small range, for a new bar, to mend two sliders, cleaning jacks, laying pokers, to mend pokers, to mend spits and a trivet, long poker, pale, new key to door, new spring and timber to kitchen door, a shovel, grate range, fixing latch to larder door, to clean and mend stillyards, to clean a jack, to mend two jack pulleys, for an iron to hold the spit, a new iron washer to stoves

Bills from Coe, the smith, from Christmas 1781 to Michaelmas 1782, all paid in November 1782. Kitchen parts of the bills examined and signed by Jonathan James, the cook.

A bill for smith work done in the college between June and November 1784, includes: a chimney bar for the ground floor room in the cloisters (6s); 18 cramps for masons (6s); repairing the lock on the library door (6d); repairing the Combination door (6d); padlock for the Chapel door, ordered by Mr Bonny (1s 2d); cleaning and repairing the hall stove (5s); polishing the stove in the Combination (5s); a new cast-iron back to the Combination stove (15s 6d); 23lb of waste Iron riveted in the middle to prevent it from breaking, ordered by Mr Plampkins (7s 8d); polishing the fire irons, fenders and horse (4s 6d); a pair of garden shears 'by Brett' (3s 6d); a large square staple for the coal house (8d); sharpened the mason's hammer and chisels (1s 4d); sharpened the 'weed iron' for the porter (2d); a padlock and piece of chain ordered by Mr Matthews (3s 2d); 'hasp' and 2 staples for the fence (6d); repairing 2 chisels (4d); 12 spikes 'by Plummers' (2s); spade handle 'by Brett' (1s); sharpening an axe and a chisel (5d); a new lock, 'neets' and screws, along with fixing a 'lads' bag (5s); repairing the lock on the blue gate (6d); sharpened a mattock and 3 chisels (6d); a padlock for the lime house (9d); 147 wall hooks for the chapel clerk's room (18s 4 1/2d); 140 wall hooks for the arch in the cloister (17s 6d); 80 bars for the hall windows £2 6s 8d; 3 pairs of new casements with frames for the hall (£2 2s); 24 wall hooks for the Master's Room (3s); chimney bars (6s); 204 wall hooks for the Master's Room (£1 5s 6d); mending a sconce for the chapel (6d); 5 lattice wires for the round windows (£1 7s 5d); repairing 'Pump Sweep in holes' and new pins (2s 6d); new iron gate and 2 top rails (£5 9d 6d); 4 new standards, 6 braces, 4 bars and 2 steps to the bottom of the gates (£6 6s); making 4 standards without braces and 4 bars (18s 4d); repaired 'Tenants old Gate' (2s). The total bill amounted to £32 3s 11 1/2d. A receipt of payment, signed by Thomas Coe, is fixed to the bill with wax.

A bill for smith's work, includes: 'strevit' in the kitchen (4s 6d); mending and fixing hinges (1s 3d); laying two pokers (2s 6d); a double skewer (3s); a spit wheel (1s); half a year looking after the jack (5s). Total bill amounted to 17s 3d, signed by S. Gurking and Thomas Coe.