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Paid £3 5s 8d to Thomas Coe for smith's work, including: a new shovel in the parlor, mending locks and keys and making new keys for the master's close, hooks and staples for fixing the garden gate in the master's close, mending a padlock, locking the garden gate, mending a lock and door in library staircase, a chimney bar and cutting out the window bar in Curtis's rooms, a chimney bar in Brooks room, mending a mattock, a new rake for the drain, and hooks and loops for the long hall door.

Paid £11 14s 4d to Thomas Coe for work including: spikes in the college walks, a lock for the master's close, locks and keys, spikes, mending the parlor lock, a lock for the garden, cleaning the parlor stove and polishing the kettle, mending hooks, mending pokers, mending the lock on the garden gate, closing the hall grate, mending the lock and key and clasp and a new padlock for the master's close gate, new casements, hanging doors, and staples.

Bill for smith's work amounting to 15s done from Lady to Midsummer in 1773. Includes: laying and mending a mattock for the garden, jack hooks, a new scythe for garden parlor, mending and fixing the chain, mending the lock on the garden gate.

Paid £2 16s 9d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: cleaning and mending the parlor stove, laying pokers, mending the lock on the garden gate, on the pump in the fellows' garden, mending a ladder for the fellows' garden, making a key to the garden for the porter, wall hooks for the fellows' garden, creating a instrument for the bricklayers to use to drain pump court, and cleaning and mending the hall stove.

Paid £1 3s 3d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: cleaning the hall stove, mending the clockwire(?), a new pump, wall hooks for the master's garden, creating a lock and key and fixing the lock to the porter's lodge, and work in Brott(?) garden.

Paid 6s 10d to Thomas Coe for work in the college, including: laying parlor pokers, on the outer door of the chapel clerk's room, and various work in the chapel clerk's room.

Paid £1 5s 5d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college, including: fixing hooks and staples on the master's coach, fixing handles to spades for the garden, mending the lock to the fellows' garden, a new mattock for the porter, laying a scythe for the porter, and wall hooks for the garden.

Paid to Thomas Coe. For: locks, hooks, laying parlour pookes, new handell and springs.

Paid £1 15s 8d to Thomas Coe for smith's work in the college in Christmas quarter of 1778, including: a key and mending the lock for the fellow's bell chamber, mending a hoe, cleaning the hall stove, mending bars, fixing hoops on the cupola over the hall, hair staples, mending and hanging the porter's bell, and spikes.

Paid 12s 6 1/2d to Thomas Coe. For: key to masters gate, painted a mattock, steeled a pick ax, nales to masters pound, hooks and eyes with wings and new spade handle.

Paid to Barkentin and Krall for work done in the SCR, including payments for a pair of chased and engraved fire dogs, a bracket for gas, a globe for the same, a metal cock repaired and gilt, a large set of fire irons, four silver shutter knobs, four roses for the shutter knobs, a large fender with double mouldings and graved and embossed piercings with square pillars and two cocks on balls, two large three light ornament brackets, one large ornament bracket, two smaller ornament brackets

Letter and receipt from Barkentin and Krall for work done on the SCR.

Comprises correspondence relating to Bronowski delivering a lecture on 'On Being an Intellectual' at the opening of the Clark Science Center at Smith College (Northampton, Massachusetts, 6 May 1967).

Also includes: correspondence with Constance Morgan on subjects including sending Bronowski a biography of her father [Senator Dwight Morrow]; copies of Bronowski's handwritten lecture notes for previous lectures on 'On Being an Intellectual' and 'Reach/Power of Science and Imagination'; a copy of 'Who precisely? The Commencement Address' by Archibald MacLeish (Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Summer 1965) which mentioned Bronowski's ['The Identity of Man'] lectures; a typescript summary of 'On Being an Intellectual' (4 Apr 1967); correspondence relating to publication of 'On Being an Intellectual'; a copy of an annotated galley proof for publication in Smith Alumnae Quarterly and annotated typescript; a press cutting about Bronowski's lecture (The San Diego Union, 7 May 1967); a Salk Institute press release about the lecture; an invitation and brochure about the opening of the Clark Science Center; and a "speaking engagement" information sheet [made for the file].

Two print copies of a hand drawing; shows five sections across the room as indicated in the room plan

Detail plan and sections of the proposed recess in chimney, hand drawings with annotations, in print copies

Showing one axonometric drawing, one elevation and two sections of the bookshelf and newspaper rack, accompanied with a note of schedule

Two print copies of hand drawings; shows six sections across the room as indicated in the room plan, and a reflected ceiling plan with proposed setting out of electrical services

One alternative proposal for the design of the small combination room; shows six sections across the room as indicated in the room plan, and a reflected ceiling plan with proposed setting out of electrical services; elevation B and F show narrower wall linings compared to the other proposal

Showing the furniture design of the magazine cabinet in concept sketches, front and side elevations, section and full size details

Showing one plan with indicated section and elevation, and 2 full-size detail designs of the fitted window desk

Showing one plan with indicated section, elevation and detail designs of the fitted unit in chimney recess

A print copy of hand-drawn sketches; with reflected ceiling plan and two sections of the details of the curtain track recess

Ornament, presented to Laurence Picken by Jesus College Music Society

Jeremiah George Leonard. Bills and receipts connected with the King's Court, King Street estate.

Comprises a wooden box of large glass plate slides [possibly for Bronowski's lecture on 'Leonardo da Vinci and the Articulation of Nature']. Also includes film of images for a lecture entitled "Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519".

Bronowski delivered a series of 3 lectures titled 'The Prophetic Eye' for the UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles) Art Council Lectures on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of October 1968. These lectures were on 'Leonardo da Vinci and the Articulation of Nature', 'The Minute Particulars of William Blake' and 'Surrealism: the Daydream Image'.

Receipt for repairs carried out in 1873 by William Jarrold, slate merchant, 53 Regent Street. Repairs to slating on cottages in Little Manor Street and stripping roof of washhouse. Includes cost of 60 slates, nails, putty, and labour. Total cost £1 11s. Second receipt for repairing slating on roofs of houses on Park Terrace/Mrs Prettyman's, including stripping and recovering roofs of outbuildings. Costs include nails, putty, cement, sand, slate, and 3 days' labour. Total cost £3 4s.

£1 9s 8d for Dutchess slates.
Paid to the executors of the late Joseph Sherwin.

Paid £17 9s 9d for slating the servants offices at the north end of the New Building, blue pukkess? on battens copper nails, slating to the Master's coach house and offices.

Consists of a carbon copy of a memorandum from Bronowski to Slater about an Annual Fellows Meeting.

Consists of a reprint of a book review [sent to Bronowski by the author], with an envelope listing the review.

Comprises correspondence with Professor Raymond A Dart (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), Professor S L Washburn (Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley), Wilfred Le Gros Clark (Department of Anatomy, University of Oxford), and Professor F Clark Howell (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago) relating to proposed statistical analysis of measurements of skulls (as Bronowski has carried out on fossil teeth with Le Gros Clark).

Comprises: an [unpublished/pre-publication] paper on 'Paladins of Method in Contemporary Philosophy'; a typescript of a paper given to a joint session of the Society for the History of Technology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (27 Dec 1965); and reprints of articles, with an envelope listing some of the items.

Most items were sent to Bronowski by the author and annotated as such. A reprint of 'Knowledge, Language and Rationality' has passages marked [by Bronowski].