Subject: query
From: jim stasheff <jds@math.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:49:50 -0400

The oldest reference I know for a universal connection on a universal 
bundle
is

MR0151923 (27 #1904) Narasimhan, M. S.; Ramanan, S. Existence of universal 
connections. II. Amer. J. Math. 85 1963 223–231. (Reviewer: K. Nomizu) 
53.50
or other papers of the same authors.  i seem to recall a later paper of 
?Quillen?
but can't locate the reference.

or any ohter subsequent ones.

jkim