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Colour photograph of Natasha McDowell, Research Fellow.

Records quarterly totals for necessary expenses including:

(1) wine - King's birthday, All Saints, 5th November, Sacrament
(2) tablecloths
(3) cleaning the Chapel's candlesticks
(4) bills - cook, butler, candle, baker, pewterer, glazier, bricklayer, carpenter, painter, plumber, chimney sweep, mason, laundress
(5) College sizings (butter and cheese)
(6) Xmas boxes for baker, miller, chimney sweep, the smiths
(7) greens for the Chapel
(8) glasses for the Combination room
(9) letters (specifies who from)
(10) Red coat, Blue coat
(11) Coal porter
(12) Library and Combination room servants
(13) Stewards paper and pens
(14) newspaper
(15) Corporation rent
(16) booth for the clock
(17) cook and wine for Magdalene day
(18) prisoners at the town goal and in the castle
(19) poor money - widows, a decayed tradesman, a blind man, a New England man with 12 children, several persons burnt with lightening, a man with the bloody flux, shipwrecked men, two foreign princes recommended by the King, Algerine slaves
(20) subscription to the Bridge

Records quarterly totals for necessary expenses including:

(1) Steward’s book and Necessary expenses book
(2) a decanter for the Combination room
(3) cleaning Chapel and greens
(4) booth for the clock
(5) bills – cook, laundress, candle, butler, baker, lamps, tin-man, cooper, smith, bricklayer, joiner, glazier, stone mason,
(6) sweeping the kitchen chimney
(7) University waits
(8) letters from... (name given)
(9) Blue coat
(10) coals
(11) newspapers
(12) Library and Combination room servants
(13) poor money
(14) wine for Commencement supper and Magdalene Day
(15) prisoners in the town goal and Castle
(16) baker’s and miller’s Xmas boxes
(17) British troops in Germany
(18) sufferers by fire
(19) a pair of bellows for the Combination room
(20) binding Berriman’s sermons

Records totals for necessary expenses divided into four sections:

Quarterly Expenses:
For bills submitted including:
Chimney Sweep
Cook
Brooms
Coals – also coals for Combination Room and Brewhouse
Steward’s Book
Bakers’ Bill
Laundress
Insurance of St Giles’s Tenements
Butler’s Bill
Lamps & candles & stamps
Combination Room
College letters
Cleaning Chapel and Greens for Xmas
Cleaning Library and Cloisters
Carriage of game from Audley End
Gardener
2 dozen soup plates
Mending the College Register
Mr Dean for 5 degrees
Town cryer
Carriage of candles from London
Christmas boxes
Contribution money and Marshall’s wages
Bookseller

Taxes and Abatement for the Year
Window tax
Land tax for various places including St Giles, Longstanton, Grainthorpe, Saltfleet
Lodge tax

Poor Article for the Year
Poor….[followed by a surname]
Prisoners in the Town goal
Prisoners in the Castle
Fire at Chesterford, Biggleswade

Quarterly Reparations
Gives occupation and the name of tradesman follows in brackets
Basket maker
Blacksmith
Brazier
Bricklayer
Draper
Clockmaker
Lamps
Cooper
Glazier
Gardener
Grinding knives
Ironmonger
Joyner (spelt Joiner from 1796, from 1800 called carpenter)
Painter
Pavier
Pump Maker
Rope Maker
Silversmith
Stone Mason
Tin-man
Wheelwright

Records the totals for necessary expenses divided into four sections:

Quarterly Expenses:
For bills submitted including:
Laundress
Chimney Sweep
College letters and stamps
Combination room and Hall fires
Butler's bill
Lamps and candles
Cooks wages
Chapel cleaning
Library and Cloister sweeping
Contribution money and Marshalls wages
School keeper
Stewards paper, pen and ink
Braziers bill
Plates and dishes
Draper's bill

Taxes and Abatement for the Year
Window tax
Land tax for various places including St Giles, Longstanton, Grainthorpe, Saltfleet
Lodge tax

Poor Article for the Year
Poor….[followed by a surname]
Mrs Briggs Annuity (1815-1821)
Grainthorpe Sunday School
Subscription to Addenbrookes Hospital

Quarterly Reparations
Gives occupation usually with the name of tradesman follows in brackets. Includes:
Brazier
Plumber
Painter
Stone Mason
Carpenter
Slater
Bricklayer
Ironmonger
Upholsterer

Records the totals for necessary expenses divided into five sections:

Quarterly Expenses Michaelmas term 1821 – Easter term 1904
For bills submitted including:
Laundress
Chimney sweep
College letters and stamps
Combination room and Hall fires
Butler's bill
Lamps and candles
Cooks wages
Contribution money and Marshalls wages
School keeper
Town crier
Cook for festivals
Chapel cleaning
Library and Cloister sweeping
Stewards paper, pen and ink
Newspaper account
Paper for May examinations
Plates and dishes

Stewards Balance Sheets 1904-1928
Signed by the Auditors (Mr Elworthy) of Peters Elworthy & Moore from year 1922/23

Receipts includes:
From kitchen – wine and gas
Baths
Profits on cycle sheds
Use of telephone
Contributions towards College servants and maintenance of the establishment

Expenses include:
College sizings
Coals
Gas
Water
Licences
Butler’s disbursements
Miss Pate (typewriting)
University Press
Individual’s names [but no details as to what the payments are for]

Assistant Stewards Balance Sheets 1923-1926

Balance Sheets for the Wine and Commons Accounts 1926-1928

Stewards Audit Sheets 1907-1916
Gives Bursar’s credit and debit to the Steward

Black and white photograph of Neil Bourne, elected Senior Research Fellow in Physics and SERC Advanced Research Fellow in 1993.

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. to Charles Coltson, General Post Office, London

To News-papers,
From 5 Apr 1796 to 5 July 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please to pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige your humble Servant

CHARLES COLTSON

Received the contents [signed] Mr Rofe

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag College to Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 5 July 1795 to 10 Oct 1795 = £1 15s 0d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Contents Mr Rofe

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Coll. To J. Hobart Briggs, General Post Office, London

To Newspapers,
From 5 April 1813 to 5 July 1813 = £1 6s 0d

Please to pay the above to Mr Brown and you’ll oblige your humble Servant,
J. HOBART BRIGGS

Clerk of the Yarmouth Road

Paid to Brown

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag College to Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

News-papers
From 5 Jan 1796 to 5 Apr 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe And you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Content [signed] Mr Rofe

[printed form completed by hand]

General Post Office London

Revd Bursar Magd College for John Briggs
1778

Jan 5 [St Thomas?] thro to April 5 - £0 14s 6d
Received April 1778 William Gregory

Revd above is your account which please to pay to Mr W. Gregory or Order & you will oblige your most obedient servant
John Briggs

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Col. To Charles Coltson General Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 10 Oct 1794 to 5 Jan 1795 = £0 17s 6d

Please pay the above contents to Mr Rofe And you’ll oblige, your humble servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the Content [signed] Mr Rofe

[Printed bill completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Coll. To Charles Coltson, General-Post Office, London

To News-papers
From 5 July 1796 to 10 Oct 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please to pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige your humble Servant,
Charles Coltson

Received the contents Mr Rofe

[on the reverse is written 'No. 8 Newspapers' but '8' is struck through and replaced with 7]

[printed form completed by hand]

Revd Bursar Mag. Coll. to Charles Coltson, General Post Office, London

To News-papers,
From 10 October 1795 to 5 January 1796 = £1 15s 0d

Please to pay the above contents to Mr Rofe and you’ll oblige your humble Servant,
CHARLES COLTSON

Received the contents [signed] Mr Rofe

A bill for newspapers for £ 15s 0d is entered in the Necessary Expenses Book [MCAD/3/3/3] but is missing from the bundle.

Numbers 23 and 28 Hertford Street were bequeathed to Magdalene College by Sir Stephen Gaselee.

28 Hertford Street was sold on 7 February 2011.

Note about the sale of land. Relates to MCAD/4/1/17/1, 7, 8.

Inscribed 'W. K. A. Richards'. A diary in which to record climbs, likely shared between Ivor and his brother, William Kenneth A. Richards, owing to two styles of handwriting throughout.

Information on the climbs includes the weather, orientation and planning, the remarks and actions of company, landmarks along the way, and events of interest e.g. a 'Narrow escape from falling boulder' on August 3rd, 1909. Climbs take place in North Wales, Dartmoor, and frequently the Alps.

P.1 reads: "Finally in 1868 he gained the coveted summit".

Essay on mountaineering followed by miscellaneous notes.

Front Cover reads: "CLARK Lectures".

Miscellaneous notes throughout on poetry and criticism, sometimes in preparation for a lecture, including a commentary on Paradise Lost.

P.1 reads: "Magdalene College Roofs and Climbs".

A diary of I.A Richards' night climbs over various buildings in Magdalene College, recounting one climb in which they got caught. Attached is a mock-serious tale of the 'devilkin' - a strange doll they managed to attach to the clock tower.

Front cover reads: "PSYCHOLOGY 1925 GENERAL + GENERAL 1929".

Miscellaneous notes throughout on psychology in a range of topics, especially the research of 'Stern'.

Front cover reads: "Psychology".

Notes taken from Psychology lectures as an undergraduate, accompanied with doodles.

Cover reads: "Psychology"; opposite cover reads: "Ethics".

At 'Psychology' end of book, a short story exploring philosophical themes. At the 'ethics' end, possibly the draft of a paper for the Moral Sciences Club.