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Sir,
We beg to acknowledge with our sincere thanks the receipt of your obliging favour and to inform you that we have received of Mr Hoares £11 1s 10d, which is duly placed to the credit of your accounts and balance the same.
With great respect we have the honour to remain.
Sir
Your very obliged servants
Rundell, Bridge & Rundell
Ludgate Hill
26th Feb 1823

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

"The score of the celebrated ode in honour of Great Britain called Rule Britannia"

Rubric on proof; M. R. James's no. 2. A law text by Andreas Siculus [variously known as Andreas Barbatius, Andrea Barbazza or Andreas Bartholomaei de Sicilia]. James judged the script to be "almost certainly" Italian; initials are lacking. Incipit: Continuatus sic. Visum est de confessionibus per quas aduersarius relevatur ab onere probandi. The early quires have guards cut from a 14C ms., others have guards cut from a 10C ms.

Consists of a letter from Jacques Monod sending information about the newly established Center (included) and asking Bronowski to join the Center's International Scientific Council, with Bronowski's reply accepting the invitation.

Comprises correspondence about sending books to the Society for their Fellows' library. Also includes reports and lists of fellows and members (1967-1972), and the constitution and byelaws (1970).

Comprises correspondence about Bronowski reading a paper on 'The Principle of Tolerance' at a symposium on 'The Frontiers and Limitations of Knowledge' at the annual meeting of the Royal Society of Canada in 1974, Rita accompanying him to Canada, other engagements whilst in Toronto, Bronowski being sent a tape recording of his address to the Royal Society of Canada, the recording being transcribed and edited by Sylvia Fitzgerald for publication following Bronowski's death, and Dr Claude Fortier (President of the Royal Society of Canada) sending photographs of Jacob and Rita Bronowski visiting Toronto (photographs not present).

Also includes a record about the engagement created for the file, a brochure for the Society's 1974 meeting and a photocopy of a brochure for the 1973 meeting.

"Royal Mint: Henry III and Edward I long cross coinage", by R. L. Davis, photocopy of document in typescript and manuscript, twenty pages on twenty folios (recto only), bound with three staples in left margin, with title page, two pages of typescript text that describe the principal characteristics of each class of the coinage, a page illustrating the letter forms and selected elements of iconography (i.e. crown and pendant), a ten-page manuscript list of the coins in the Royal Mint collection by mint in alphabetical order, six pages in manuscript showing two tables of mints and moneyers.

Licence to Brian Smith to convey to his son Brian, on his marriage with Ann Glover, daughter of William Glover, dec'd., the glebe lands and advowson of Cavendish. Latin, with the Great Seal of Charles I, red wax. [In the steel press, shelf 10].

Insurance certificate for 93 Hills Road which was insured for £400.

Newspaper cutting, poster recital and letters to Patricia Hurford about Peter Hurford's performances organised by the Royal Festival Hall between 1954 and 1989 in the series "Wednesday's at 5.55". There is also a list sent to Patricia Hurford detailing the concerts given by Peter Hurford along those years.

Confirmation of the presentation of William Feniers, M.A., to the Rectory of Canvendish, by Brian Smith, gent. With Great Seal of James I, white wax. [Not found, August 2012]

Royal Canadian College of Organists presents Organ Recital by Peter Hurford. At the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto. 25th October 1976.

Programme:

• Prelude, Fugue and Chacone, Diderik Buxtehude
• Concerto in A minor (BWV 593), Antonio VIvaldi/J. S. Bach
• Sonata in C minor, Giovanni Battista Pescetti
• Chacone in G, Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres
• Trio en Passacaille, Andre Raison
• Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor (BWV 582), J. S. Bach
• Sonata No. 1 in E flat (BWV 525), J. S. Bach
• Fantasia and Fugue in G minor (BWV 542), J. S. Bach

Contains programme notes by Felix Aprahamian.

Receipt and sums from Richard Rowl, collector noting property and income taxes paid by the college for 1847. £36 10s 7.5d and £33 18s 1.5d.

A receipt detailing charges pertaining to property lately leased to a Mr Edwards, on King Street and Belmont Place, including surveying dilapidations of five tenements, alongside Mr Wisbey, the surveyor chosen by Mr Edwards; taking account of the fixtures, and superinteding repairs of these tenements. All totals £1 1s. Received of the Reverend the Master and Fellows of Jesus College to R. Reynolds Rowe on 12 December 1862, signed by Mr Rowe.

Two small round pieces of metal, possibly nail heads.

Rough working for the Marden Capralite accounts, including £465 2s 11d for work done to the Hare Mill and £478 15s for work done to the steam mill.

Rough working for the accounts of building work done to Jesus college, 1880. Includes £11 7s 1d recorded as "Dead". Total expenditure of £181 1s 8d, signed by Ellis.

Consists of papers [for a conference on 'Language in a Biological Frame' at the Salk Institute, Jul 1969] on: 'Possible Preadaptations for Language in the Behavior of Monkeys and Apes' by Peter Carlton Reynolds (Stanford University); 'The Biological Foundations of Language' by Bronowski (May 1969); 'Brain and Language' by Karl H Pribham (Jun 1969); 'The Fundamental and Specific Characteristics of Human Language' by Roman Jakobson; and 'The Capacity for Language' by Ursula Bellugi-Klima.

Notes for what is now 2/1.

Rough work for accounts for work done to the college: including work in the Master's Lodge (£42 3d) Courts (£58 4s 3d) the Chapel (3s), Kitchen (£1 1s 2d), Rooms (£15 1s 7d), Estates (£1 1s 1d), Dead money (£115 19s 1d), Buttery (3s). Undated, with 'Ellis' signed by each sum total.

With an envelope listing the articles.

Two plans of a proposed estate near Willow Walk

Includes song lyrics, musical scores, scripts and correspondence relating to Rooster pantomimes and other performances

Lampshade decorated with the title 'The Roosters, breakfast at lunchtime, hangover Sunday, 12 June 1960'. Signed by, presumably, members of the Roosters and female guests.

Photograph shows attendees of a Roosters dinner in the College Hall.

Attendees at the Roosters Dinner in Hall

Group photograph of Roosters and guests taken outside

Group photograph of Roosters and guests taken outside

Attendees at the Roosters Dinner in Hall

Attendees at the Roosters Dinner in Hall

Attendees at the Roosters Dinner in Hall

Attendees at the Roosters Dinner in Hall

Attendees at the Roosters Dinner in Hall

Group photograph of Roosters and guests taken in First Court by C and D staircases.

Some of those in the photograph include Mick Bond, Wendy Barlow (Bond), Jan Balkwill, Doug Elliott, Andrew Hopkinson, Jonny Garner, Bruce Cohen, Ian Fergusson, Hugh Fitzwilliams, Simon Harcourt Williams, Peter Allen, Mark Moreton, Simon Banks, John Nash, Richard Bainbridge, Martin Down, Graham Wade, Bill Elliott, Chris McDouall, Simon Barber, Christopher Dean, Ian Streat, Gavin Streat, Clifford Streat, Eileen Streat, Christopher Schneider, Richard Alexander, Guy Blaker, Peter Blaker, Dawn Blaker, Bill Thorpe (?), Alan Percival, Helen Roberts, Ronald Roberts, Miles Roberts, Brian Walton, Peter Baelz, John Beveridge, Andrew Beeston, Stuart Alexander, Sheila Alexander, Freddy Brittain, Muriel Brittain, Brian Blench, Will Purvis.