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Annual Reports: Audit Committee

Annual account reports including reviews of various college departments including the senior bursar, junior bursar, tutorial bursar, education fund, kitchen accounts and miscellaneous accounts. From 1981, the Audit Committee reports were filed regularly as parts of the ‘Accounts Pack'..

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Brook Farm

Includes: deeds and other property documents related to Brook Farm.

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Correspondence: Fellows' Amenities

Includes a letter from the Domestic Bursar about the possibility of putting two copies of Times Literary Supplement in the Green Room, a letter from Dr Simon Coleman welcoming the new Secretary of the Committee and the minutes from the 1993 and 1994 Committee meeting.

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Fellowship Dissertations: Correspondence & Papers

Correspondence and papers regarding fellowship dissertations and elections. These include reports by Louis Leakey (1931) and Gregory Bateson (1931-1934).
File 1: 1887-1892
File 2: 1893-1897
File 3: 1928-1934
File 4: 1966-1969

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Financial Arrangements: Choir School

Committee minutes considering the financial arrangements between St John’s College School and SJC such as general policy, capital expenditure, repayment of loans, schools fees including bursaries and staff expenditure.

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Minute Book: Kitchen

An exercise book containing the committee’s minutes and agendas. Loose sheets inserted at back of volume include correspondence, lists relating to servants and wages, and notes on kitchen balance sheets.

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Minute Book: Natural Sciences

Minutes from committee meetings including tripos examination results, awards, studentships, prizes and scholarships, and appointment of supervisors.

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Pykeryng's Lands

Includes: deeds and related documents for Pyckeryng's lands at Atwick; also includes a lease for Little Markham Manor house in Nottinghamshire between the College and Robert Chapell; sale documents for Robert White and his wife Maude of Bishop's Lynn, Norfolk and material relating to Garton's holding in Atwick.

Also includes a case of the opinion of counsel which involves Francis Carleill [sic] and Matthew Oates. In the margin of the document there is a notation concerning William Babthorpe, John Pickering and Pickering's heirs.

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Referees' Reports

Includes: reports by referees on dissertations entered by applicants for St John's College fellowships. These reports are the sole record, the dissertations themselves having been returned to the applicants in most cases (there are some dissertations extant). They are invaluable for the revealing contemporary academic opinions on the subjects discussed. From 1978 onwards the reports were retained in the Master's files on each elected Fellow and those on unsuccessful applicants destroyed.

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Senior Bursar's Statements: Audit Committee

Statements made by the by the Senior Bursar to the SJC Audit Committee includes a statement by the Senior Bursar on the 1893 audit and an account of the change from beneficial leases to rack renting in 1851-1869.

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Steward's Notebooks: Kitchen

Includes committee minutes kept by the Steward, including kitchen staff wages and pensions, accounts, stores and stocktaking, and kitchen equipment.

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Suggestions Books: Kitchen

Includes comments and complaints by Junior Members on kitchen fare, dining arrangements and cost of meals, with replies and notices issued by the committee.

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