Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
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MS Add.3971	Miscellaneous Copies of Letters and Papers
MS Add.3972	Papers on Finding the Longtitude at Sea
MS Add.3973	Notes of Experiments, all in Newton's Hand
MS Add.3974	Miscellaneous Notes
MS Add.3975	A Manuscript Note-book
MS Add.3976	Correspondence with Oldenburg
MS Add.3977	Correspondence with Collins and Wallis
MS Add.3978	Letters from Arthur Storer to Dr Babington and to Newton
MS Add.3979	Correspondence with Flamsteed
MS Add.3980	Gregory to Newton
MS Add.3981	Letters from Halley to Newton Relating to the Publication fo the First Edition of the 'Principia'
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Title	Correspondence with Oldenburg
Reference	MS Add.3976
Covering Dates	1672–1677

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.3976 contains:

Add.3976.1

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton. Contains a transcription of a letter from Christiaan Huygens to Henry Oldenburg dated 14 January 1672/3, from Paris. The original is published in Huygens's 'Oeuvres Completes' (The Hague, 1888-1950), vol. VII, no.1919, p.242. An English translation by Oldenburg appeared in Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 8. (1673), pp. 6086-6087, as 'An Extract of a Letter Lately Written by an Ingenious Person from Paris, Containing Some Considerations upon Mr. Newtons Doctrine of Colors, as Also upon the Effects of the Different Refractions of the Rays in Telescopical Glasses.'.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

18 January 1672

Add.3976.2

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg. Published in Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678), Vol. 7. (1672), pp. 4032-4034, as: "Mr. Newton's Letter to the Publisher of March 26. 1672. Containing Some More Suggestions about His New Telescope, and a Table of Apertures and Charges for the Several Lengths of That Instrument.".
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

26 March 1672

Add.3976.3

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [mixed]; paper.

30 March 1672–13 April 1672

Add.3976.4

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

9 April 1672-Early April 1672

Add.3976.5

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg. MISSING.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
paper.

13 April 1672

Add.3976.6

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

2 May 1672

Add.3976.7

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

4 May 1672

Add.3976.8

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

21 May 1672

Add.3976.9

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

2 July 1672

Add.3976.10

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg. ff.18-19 missing.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.10 [folio]; paper.

11 June 1672

Add.3976.11

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

24 September 1672

Add.3976.12

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

4 June 1673

Add.3976.13

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

7 June 1673

Add.3976.14

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

14 September 1673

Add.3976.15

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

19 February 1676

Add.3976.16

Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg. Non-autograph letter, with autograph corrections and postscript.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

28 November 1676

Add.3976.17

Letter from Henry Oldenburg to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Oldenburg, Henry, c 1618-1677, scientific correspondent and secretary of the Royal Society.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

2 January 1677