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Decorating bill

Paid £7 8s 10d to Swan and Garner for work done in College including work done in Wortham's keeping room, preparing walls and setting up brown paper and sizing walls, tacks, paste, wallpaper, border paper, labour for hanging paper; work done at Bramah's keeping room, putting up brown paper and sizing, tacks, paste, paper, labour for pasting and putting up; Repairing paper in Wood's room, paper, paste, size and tacks,; Pasting and putting up border in Bramah's keeping room. Signed John Swan.

Swan & Garner

Bill for Copy of Lord Campbell's Speech

Paid £3 8s 5d to George Gold, Law an Parliamentary Stationer, for a fair copy of extracts from Lord Campbell's speech in The Honorable Society of Gray's Inn v the Parish of St Andrew Holborn. Signed Henry Gold for George Gold.

Gold, George

Letter from Alfred Lerew to J. Gibson on portrait

Letter and bill from Alfred Lerew, of the Auction, Estate, and House Agency Offices, Cardington Street, London, to J. Gibson Esq., of Jesus College about a portrait bought by the College from Mrs. Perry, her being in need of assistance. Lerew hoped for a better price. Attached is a bill for the portrait:
Portrait..........£5
Packing case.........10s
total: £5 10s

Lerew, Alfred H.

Bill and Receipt for Land Tax

Bill and Receipt for half a years Land Tax Charged on the Estate of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College at Willing Farm at Willingham due Michaelmas Last, amounting to 14s. Signed C. Underwood Collector.

Underwood, Charles

Receipt for furniture repairs

Receipt of payments totalling £1 10s for repair and replacement of items in the chapel and combination room.
Chapel: laced matting and binding.
Combination room: repairing dining table, castor screw, picture frame. Fastening, moulding and replacing two hand fire screens.

John Swan and Son

Plumbing Receipt

By order of Mr Newberry to Owen Rowe, Plumber, Glazier, and Gas Fitter (22 Sussex Street, Cambridge). Receipt for repairing pump in August 1874, costing £2. Signed by Joseph Rowe.

Rowe, Owen

Receipt for Printing Examination Papers

Receipt for printing exam papers for Lent and Easter terms, costing £20 18s in total. Topics include Latin, Greek, and English prose translation, Cicero, Herodotus, algebra, mathematics, trigonometry, natural philosophy, Newton and dynamics, statistics, rigid dynamics, hydrostatics, and optics. Some exams are intercollegiate. Signed by A Mason on behalf of C.J. Clay.

Cambridge University Press

Water Statements and Receipts

Bill for cost of time of man examining and testing 5 hydrants, and of raising the hydrant, including materials. Total cost £1 8s 6d. Bill for water in lodge, 2 WCs, garden, and arrears, costing £2 12s 10d. Separate bill for water in 74 sets of rooms, 4 WCs, and 5 hydrants, costing £13 16s 6d.
Tucked inside, two bills for water supply in the quarter ending on 6th Oct 1874, one for the amount of £12 14s, the other for £12 11s 6d, with less charged for the cost of the hydrant carried forward. Also a receipt for £1 8s 6d for repairs [to the hydrant] as per statement. All signed off by W.L. Dickson, collector.

Cambridge University and Town Water Works Company

Receipt for Copper Lamps

Receipt from Robert Jones, art metal worker, for four new copper lamps, and for altering brackets on packing case. Total cost £5-8-0. Signed by Robert Jones, and confirmed as correct by Mr Tuft and Mr Waterhouse.

Jones, Robert

Ironmongers Receipt for Work in Buttery

Receipt for repairs and minor works carried out by Edward Beales & Co between April and August 1874. Work includes repairing knife machine (Emery to do), 1 bottle rack, wrought iron frame and doors for wine bin as per estimate, and 2 padlocks for the same. Total cost £25 4s, invoiced to the college's buttery account. Signed off by Edward Beale.

Edward Beales & Co.

Brewers bill

Bill for red bricks and splays to John Price, wholesale and retail brewer and malteaser and hop, wine and spirit dealer, paid by C Deeks for £1 15d 9s. Signed by William Sargant and John Price.

Deeks, Charles

Ironmongers bill

Paid £59 19s 9d to Edward Headly and Son for iron fence around the new square, 1 extra post, 1 iron gate of fixing same, fencing of post Jesus terrace, repairing old fence. Signed Edward Headly and Son

Edward Headly and Son

Letter to the Bursar

From the Vicar, further details of land given to the Vicarage.

Hard, L Hereward

Sculpture in the Close 1992

Includes organisational correspondence, guides, A3 poster for exhibition, costs associated with holding the exhibition and correspondence with potential financial supporters.

Featured artists were Antony Gormley, Michael Archer, Richard Bray, Richard Long, David Mach, Diane MacLean and Nina Saunders.

Opened by Nicholas Serota.

Sculpture in the Close 2009

Includes organisational correspondence, invitation card to official launch of exhibition, A3 poster for exhibition, guides, costs associated with holding the exhibition; Digital photographs of sculptures in situ

Featured artists were Anthony Caro, Antony Gormley and Anselm Kiefer.

Opened by Charles Suamarez Smith.

Transverse section of the Choir

Section showing one of Rowe's proposed designs for restoring the College Chapel

Rowe, Richard Reynolds (1824-1899), Architect, Surveyor and Engineer

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