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Full title: Register of the Fellows and Scholars of this College who have taken the oaths pursuant to the Act of the first year of King George the 1st since the year 1727.

Photographs of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, c.1930; Prince Khanderao Gaekwar, c.1940, Photograph of Jesus Boat crew at Henley, c. 1950

(1) Letter from Philip H. Carter of Carter & Co (Chartered Accountants) asking if the College would be prepared to renew the lease and if so on what terms. The current leaseholder was Mrs A. G. Carter who had succeeded to it under the will of the late F. G. Gifford

(2) Letter from Philip H. Carter acknowledging the College's response that they did not renew 40 year leases unless under exceptional circumstances. He points out that he had spend a considerable amount on the property and it had not been a "remunerative investment". He asks if the College would be prepared to make him an offer for the surrender of the lease

F. Blyth - to prepare and fix a sash and frame in bedroom.
B staircase - repair wall framing etc
C staircase - ease casements
D staircase - ease door and fix catch on same
F and G staircases - paint round windows
Room A1 - repair plastering
Room L12 - take out and refix stove
Kirkpatrick's rooms - make and fix a sash forming a double window in sitting room; rehang sashes and fix new beads, and ease door (incl. materials: lime, sash bead, nails)
A, B, E and F staircases - paint round all windows, also hire of bricklayer, labourer, and use of plaster and cement.
Room K1 - new latch on bedroom door; ease casement and fix fastener
Room K3 - prepare a new 4 panel door; alter door jambs; rehang sashes and fix new beads; repair coal bin on the landing; one new casemen and frame in gyp room.
Room K4 - rehang sashes in bedroom and fix new lock to gyp room and fix new fastening on sashes.
Room K5 - rehang sashes and new beads; new casement and frame in gyproom and one on the landing.
Room L6 - rehang sashes and fix new beads and casement frames in bedroom; repair coal bin on landing. Includes parting beads, sash beads, line, lock and latch, sash fastenings, nails, deal, brass butts, glue, wainscots, screws, buckets, men's time.

• F1 - new stone chimney piece, make good to wall, new sash beads.
• F2 - repair floor, new beads, new lock to door.
• F3 - new beads, new stops and sash fasteners; rehang sash and new door etc.
• F4 - new beads and pulleys, new casements and frames; rehang sashes, stops and lead weights etc.
• F5 - new beads and pulleys; rehang sashes and mend doors.
• F6 - new beads and pulleys; rehang sashes, new door and one casement frame on landing. Includes sash beads, run parting, cord, nails, pulleys, sash fastener, lock, deal, floorboards, butts, glue, screw pulley, brass nails, run, oak, brass butts, brass turn-buckles
• G staircase - similar repairs to those carried out in F staircase, including replacing/repairing beading, sashes, casements, doorframes, pulleys, turn-buckles. Includes materials and men's time.
• L staircase - similar repairs to those carried out in F and G staircases, including replacing/repairing sashes, beading, casements, door jambs, coal bins, skirting, rehanging doors; preparing and fixing circular molding to gyp room, refixing cupboard in room 11. Fix fastenings on casement, refix lamp, and fix block on floor to stop door. Includes materials and men's time.
• Similar repairs carried out in A, B, C, D, and E staircases, including materials and men's time. Shutters rehung in B3; new panel door hung in C2; cabin hooks needed to repair window boards and install new casement and frame on landing in C staircase; door jambs altered in E staircase and 3 new panel doors installed.
• Old floor taken up in E staircase and sound boarding fitted to receive pegging, new floor and skirting fitted, fit out joists and alter water tap in Mr Morgan's gyp room. Includes materials and time.
  Total cost £103 1d. Received and signed off in a different hand by D. Bradwell and Sons.

Letter by J. Carter & Sons addressed to B.L. Manning, Esq, Bursar of Jesus College outlining the works carried out at the Rectory Farm, Great Shelford (pulling down old building, building new horse shed, stripping and repairing the present Carthorse stable) and requesting payment of £661 10s including £500 to contractor Mr. SIdney Worboys of Stapleford. Reference to dropping iron prices

Ale - 6
Bread - 2
Cheese - 2
£0 0s 10d

Typewritten paper titled: "Reflections on a challenging choice" about a retrospective 2-CD issue made by Decca to celebrate Hurford's 75th birthday. The CDs were called: "The art of Peter Hurford".

Incomplete notebook containing handwritten notes by Bronowski on various thoughts and ideas, many of which refer to his own writings.

Consists of a file of photocopied pages from "reflections" notebooks.

Notebook containing handwritten notes by Bronowski on various thoughts and ideas, some of which refer to his own writings.

Comprises a draft and later typescript of Bronowski's second "Reflections" notebook.

Comprises a typescript of Bronowski's first "Reflections" notebook.

Extracts of references to Hundon in medieval and Tudor documents. An endorsement says "Mr Caley's Extracts from old Documents concerning Hundon 1783, contains nothing material". A second endorsement says "This Paper was brought from Hundon & belongs to Mr Foley".

Consists of annotated photocopies of 'The Two Cultures' and 'The Two Cultures: and a Second Look' by C P Snow, 'Towards and New Architecture' by Le Corbusier, 'Two Cultures? The Significance of C P Snow' by F R Leavis, 'Challenge to the Intellect' by C P Snow, and 'Tacit Knowledge: Its Bearing on Some Problems of Philosophy' by Michael Polanyi, with notes of references and quotes from the books and article.

29 minutes and 30 seconds long.

31 minutes and 45 seconds long.

30 minutes and 30 seconds long.

Consists of a memorandum on a meeting with George Derfer, and a note regarding Bronowski visiting Redlands and giving a lecture at the University of Redlands on 'Science and Human Values: Past, Present and Future' (18 Jan 1973).

Includes correspondence relating to redecoration of the SCR including cleaning of chandelier by Wilkinson plc, payment to Cambridge Archaeological Unit for architectural recording of room, payments and correspondence with Kate Ainslie-Williams for curtains, curtain poles and other decorative matters, correspondence and guarantees from Terminix relating to treatment for woodworm and wood boring beetle, report and correspondence with Colchester Lister for restoration and repair of woodwork, correspondence and advice from Donald Insall Associates Ltd relating to restoration of woodwork, notes relating to environmental conditions by Hirst Conservation, notes, invoice and sketch relating to repairs to fireplace by Anglia Fireplaces and Design Ltd,

Includes correspondence relating to redecoration of the SCR including renewing paintwork with paint colour samples from Akzo Coatings plc, a safety cable fitted to the central chandelier by Robert Dent Ltd and general decorative schemes, 1989-1990;

Includes letters with Percy Morley Horder concerning his plans for the redecoration of the Senior Combination Room. Includes thoughts on only using the existing brackets for candles, installation of electric light to illuminate the pictures, remove the portrait of Coleridge (as an older man?) and install in the panelling above the fireplace, paint all the picture frames the same colour as the wall in the room and possibly strip all the paint from the panelling and wax the bare wood.

Letter confirming the receipt of £9 9s from the Reverend Dr Corrie, Master of Jesus College, being the stipend paid to the university at the bequest of Sir Robert Rede, presumably for the Rede Lecturer, referred to as Barnaby Lecturer in a note on the back. Signed by Edward Atkinson, V.C.

Emmanuel College Lodge, received of the Master and Fellows of Jesus College the sum of £9-9-0 being the amount of the stipend of the Rede Lecturer for 1876 due from Jesus College to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholsrs of the University of Cambridge. Signed off by Samuel George Phear, Vice Chancellor.

Comprises correspondence, mainly with Jean Evans (senior editor): on attempts to publish work by Bronowski including extracts from 'Science and Human Values' and an article on 'The Discovery of Self' [from an address given at a national convention of the American Personnel and Guidance Association in 1965]; and on trying to arrange a meeting between Bronowski and Dr Erich Fromm in Mexico City which would have resulted in a dialogue published in the magazine.

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Includes correspondence, 'Fillets being the records of the most loquacious order of the red herring, 1922-1951', a watercolour of 'the Cock herring' by V. Robinson 1932; Copies of Liber Harengarum or rules of the most loquacious order of the red herring, 1949, c. 1960 and c.1980

Includes issue 1 19th January 1993

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Rev. C. H. Crossley, Willingham Rectory, Cambridge postcard receipt to J. H. H. Goodwin, Jesus College, Cambridge.

Letters from the Rector asking permission to apply to Queen Anne's bounty for a grant towards building a new Rectory house and offices. He has obtained a new site by exchange. Also references to the local school, and in 1868 a dispute with R. Rowe (builder?) about payments.

Letter from J. Carter Jonas & Sons to B. L. Manning, Bursar of Jesus College, certifying the receipt of payment (£130) for work carried out at Rectory Farm, Harston and requesting remaining payment of £29 for the completion of the remainder of the work which had been deemed unsatisfactory

The collection comprises property deeds and some administrative records of the Benedictine nunnery that formerly occupied the Jesus College site.