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11¾ x 9

1168 x 914mm

Includes correspondence relating to ownership of the copy by the College dating to before 1895, but that name of artist is unknown. Also request for an image of the painting to be included in Walter B. Crawford's Samuel Taylor Coleridge: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and Scholarship.

16½ x 12½. After Washington Allston in the possession of George Barndid, published by E. Moxon of Dover Street.

Includes photograph of painting

Includes photograph of painting and correspondence with Atwood concerning commission of piece in 1933; list of attendees at unveiling of portrait, 16th June 1933;

Includes photograph of painting, summary of events leading to its acquisition in 1952

Includes a CD on which is copy of a speech made at installation dinner. Renfrew talks about various anecdotes including items of biographical interest. The introduction to Renfrew's speech details his significant work as an archaeologist, 7 October 1986. Also included on the CD are speeches made by Renfrew on the occasion of two fellows, Alan Percival and Charles Wilson, being fellows of the College for 50 years, 1 October 1988. Also nine scanned images of original photographs (not held by the Archive) from the Queen's visit, 1996. These are duplicates of originals held in JCCA/JCPH/PHO 9/1-2.

Correspondence of Ian Stewart with Stewart Lyon

Manuscript & typescript papers of Stewart Lyon without accompanying correspondence

Correspondence of Stewart Lyon with Marion Archibald

Correspondence of Stewart Lyon with Mark Blackburn

Correspondence of Stewart Lyon with May Sinclair of Spink & Son

Correspondence of Stewart Lyon with Patrick Wormald

Correspondence of Stewart Lyon with Peter Sawyer

Correspondence of Stewart Lyon with Philip Grierson

Correspondence of Stewart Lyon with Veronica Smart

Card sent by Arthur Gray, Master, to troops quartered in the college.

13½ x 12

Consists of: a photocopy of 'The Effects of The Atomic Bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Report of the British Mission to Japan' (1946); a photocopy of 'The Conscience of a Scientist' by Bronowski from 'Eleven Scientists Speak' published by the New York Academy of Sciences; a photocopy of a press cutting from 'The Listener' (BBC magazine) entitled 'J. Bronowski reports, in 1946, on a scientific mission to Japan after Hiroshima' (2 Nov 1972); a photocopy of 'A Proposal for Atomic Peace' by Bronowski ('Discovery', March 1951); an issue of 'The Nation' containing 'The Abacus and the Rose: A Dialogue after Galileo' by Bronowski (4 Jan 1964); a press cutting of ''1984' Could Be a Good Year' by Bronowski (New York Times Magazine, 15 Jul 1962); a reprint of 'The Moral Age of Plenty' by Bronowski (from The Saturday Evening Post in 'Adventures of the Mind' series, 1960); a typescript of 'Foundations for Equality' an address by Bronowski given to a symposium celebrating the golden jubilee of International House (New York, 14 May 1974); and an annotated typescript of an interview of Bronowski conducted by John Rowley for the London Sunday Times at the Salk Institute (23 Apr 1967).

[The interview conducted by John Rowley was not published].

Also includes a business card for Glennalie Coleman, Food Teacher/Writer.

Includes a master biography and notes for Bronowski's autobiography.

Consists of: 'Science & Literature' by Peter B. Medawar (text of Medawar's Romanes lecture at the Sheldonian, Oxford), 'The Quest of the Good' John Dewey Memorial lecture (at Bennington College, Vermont) by Agnes E. Meyer, 'Biology as a Cosmological Science' by Harold J. Morowitz, 'Things, Words and the Brain' by R. C. Oldfield (Institute of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford) for the Sir Frederic Bartlett Lectures (Cambridge), 'An RNA that Multiplies Indefinitely…' by Christof K. Bierbricher and Leslie E. Orgel (Salk Institute), 'The Paradox of the Aggregate' address to the 1970 Annual Meeting of the Association of National Advertisers by Gerard Piel (Scientific American), 'The Modern Consciousness and the Winged Chariot' convocation address at the City University of New York by Arthur Schlesinger (Albert Schweitzer Professor of the Humanities, City University of New York) sent to Bronowski by Virginia White, 'Henri Poincaré and the Principle of Relativity' by Charles Scribner, Jr., 'Playfulness, Creativity and Schisis' by S. A. Szurek (Professor of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine), 'Science and the Regulation of Society' by Sir Geoffrey Vickers (Occasional Paper from the Institute for the Study of Science in Human Affairs, Columbia University), and 'Confession and Autobiography in the Early Renaissance' by T. C. Price Zimmermann.

Consists of: a typescript of 'Play and Human Evolution' by Peter C. Reynolds (Stanford University Medical Center) to be read at the 1972 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [AAAS]; a typescript of 'The Study by Dr Norman Bauer of Radioactive Fallout in Utah: a case of Personal Responsibility in Science' by O. Johnson (Shell Development Company, Emeryville, California) presented at the Norman Bauer Memorial Symposium AAAS meeting in New York City, 27 Dec 1967 (annotated "J Bronowski 1968"); occasional papers on 'Technology and Human Values' and 'The University in America' published by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions; a pre-publication typescript of 'Sense-Giving and Sense-Reading: of Language' by Michael Polanyi sent "with the compliments of the author"; a draft of 'The Productivity of Research Scientists' by Derek de Solla Price (Yale University) for inclusion in Britannica Yearbook of Science and the Future, 1974; a typescript of 'Can life exist inside Neutron Stars?' by Jean Schneider (Groupe d'Astrophysique Relativiste, Observatoire de Meudon, France) submitted to Nature (journal) 10 Jul 1975; and a typescript of 'Science, Ethics and Survival: Mankind up against the wall' by G. Salzman (Physics department, University of Massachusetts) which was a talk given at a "teach-in" organised by the Student Mobilisation Committee of the University of Massachusetts (15 Oct 1969).

Includes copies of lectures and addresses, a cabinet paper and reports.

Comprises articles, lectures and reports by other authors.

Consists of a school report (22 Dec 1920); a letter from Bronowski to his mother about his travels through France and Spain, sent from Mallorca (8 Jul 1932); a poem 'The Dejected Artist' written for Rita Coblentz (later Bronowski) by Jacob Bronowski (30 Dec 1939) with notes and sketches for sculpture on the reverse; a letter from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology confirming payment for visiting professorship (May 1953); correspondence with Robert Oppenheimer, Professor [David] Mitrany and Julian Huxley mainly on a failed application to the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Sep 1956-Feb 1957); correspondence with Warren Weaver and John Marshall regarding a motor bike accident that Bronowski was in and a proposed fellowship at the Rockefeller Foundation, New York (Jan 1958-Jun 1959); Christmas and New Year cards (1950s-1960s); Tac Tix mathematical problem from 'Scientific American' solved by Bronowski (22 Jun 1958); certificate of membership to the Athenaeum club, London (19 Feb 1962); correspondence with the University of Pennsylvania regarding a cancelled appointment as visiting professor of Philosophy (Oct 1958-Apr 1959); correspondence with Ward Howell Associates regarding a proposed job as a Vice President in a manufacturing company, United States (Apr-Jul 1957); press cutting about 'interferon' (Nov 1961).

Mainly for conferences and symposiums.

Notes on "Proverbs", "Ars Artium", "Scaliger's Apothegms", "Declamations", etc., with dates of birth and death of the compiler's family.

Consists of final versions (annotated typescripts and cuttings from publications) of Bronowski's published poems from 1928-1940, organised by date order with a typed preface and a contents list. Also includes a poem from 1955, 'Stranger, Self and Lover'.

With a card sent to Bronowski from Larry Ashmead [book editor, Doubleday publishers] containing 'The Bird of Paradise' poem by Graves (1963).

Consists of articles by Joseph Agassi (Boston University), Miriam J. Benkovitz (Skidmore College), H. Stanley Bennett (Laboratories for Cell Biology, University of Chicago), Seymour Benzer (Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology), Ronald W. Bevan (The Scientific Adviser's Department, Air Ministry, London), William Breit (University of Virginia), P R J Burch (inaugural lecture on 'Can we have absolutely true scientific laws?', department of Medical Physics, University of Leeds), and Ralph Wendell Burhoe (Editor of Zygon, Journal of Religion and Science).

Consists of articles by Melvin J. Cohen (Department of Biology, Yale University), Robert C. Collins, Manfred Clynes (Biocybernetics Institute, Palisades, New York), Renato Dulbecco (The Salk Institute), Yehuda Elkana (Jerusalem), Heinz von Foerster (Biological Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois), Professor D X Freedman (Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago), Hans Gaffron (The Florida State University, Institute of Molecular Biophysics), Bentley Glass, Roderic Gorney (Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California at Los Angeles) and Martin Grotjahn.

The article by Freedman is in French.

Consists of articles by Joel H. Hilderbrand (Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, University of California), D. E. Hutchinson (lecture delivered on 'Science and Human Values', Department of Chemistry, University of Western Australia, with a letter to Bronowski), Frank S. Kessel (Center for Research in Human Learning, University of Minnesota), Martin Landau, Ervin Laszlo (State University of New York at Genesco, Lionel S. Lewis (about the Two Cultures debate), A. H. Maslow (Laughlin Foundation, Menlo Park, California), Leslie Orgel (Salk Institute), John Paddock (Instituto de Estudios Oaxaqueños, Oaxaca, Mexico), Roy Harvey Pearce (Dean, University of California at San Diego, with a letter to Bronowski), Milton O. Pella (with George T. O'Hearn and Calvin W. Gale, University of Winsconsin), Colin S. Pittendrigh (Princeton University), Edward Pols, David H. Shannahoff and Robert A. Sanchez (Salk Institute and The Armand Center for Cancer Biology, San Diego), J. F. Staal (report of a symposium on 'Formal Logic and Natural Languages'), John O. Stevens, W. H. Thorpe, Sigmund Timberg, Georges Ungar (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas), Warren Weaver, and L. A. Zadeh (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Electronics Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley).

Consists of: 'Creativity, Poetic Language and the Computer' by Marie Borroff; 'Lunar Surface Mechanical Properties' by R. Choate et al., articles by W. E. Le Gros Clark (University of Oxford), 'Resource Letter TLA-1 on Technology, Literature, and Art since World War II' by William H. Davenport (Department of Humanities, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California), 'Motion in the Chemical Texts of the Renaissance' by Allen G. Debus, 'Loss of Simian Virus 40 DNA-RNA Hybrids…' by Renato Dulbecco and others, 'The Death of the Humanities' (22nd Faculty Research Lecture) by Robert F. Gleckner (Dean, College of Humanities, Professor of English, University of California at Riverside), articles by O. H. Griffiths with others (Institute of Molecular Biology and Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene), 'Patterns of differentiation between human local populations' by Nick Jardine (Kings College, Cambridge), articles by Roman Jakobson, and 'Smokeless Fuel from Low-rank Coals Carbonized in a Fluidized Bed' by W. Idris Jones and Jack Owen (National Coal Board).

Consists of a series organised broadly alphabetically by author surname. Many reprints and copies of articles had been put into envelopes listing the contents.

A collection of errors, etc.; M. R. James's no. 57. Contains: 1) Collectio errorum in anglia et parisius condempnatorum (A collection of errors condemned in England and Paris) by brother Robert de Kyluarby [Kilwardby], archbishop of Canterbury, AD 1276, with a confirmation and additions made by John Peckham, archbishop of Canterbury, 1286; 2) De malo, by Thomas Aquinas, also entitled: Questiones de malo cum titulis questionum previis; 3) a list of books sold by Thomas de Wyniston of Oxford (which James transcribes); 4) Tractatus de peccato mortali, also entitled: Tractatus bonus de peccato mortali et veniali et ceteris peccati speciebus cum titulis questionum et tabula vocali in fine. The ms. is of English workmanship.

Copies of documents collected by the Revd T.P. Foley, Vicar, as evidence in his case against the Rectory 1799. He claimed the small tithes from four farms on the estate. The documents include extracts from the Registry of the Bishop of Norwich giving terriers of 1627 and 1725. There is a copy of the 1627 terrier, and of one of 1754. There are further copies of terriers of 1716 and 1784, and an incomplete letter from the Bishop's Registry, 1722, listing dates of documents relating to Hundon 1627-1716, There are further rough notes of land and values, mostly undated.

Catalogue of books shown in exhibition.