Janus: The Portsmouth Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007 contains:
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MS Add.3997	Mathematical Treatise
MS Add.3998	Compendium mathematicoalgebraicum ex Oughtredo Wallisio
MS Add.3999	Lettres de M. Leibnitz and M. le Chevalier Newton sur l'invention des Fluxions et du Calcul Differentiel
MS Add.4000	College Notebook
MS Add.4001	Proof sheets of the edition of Newton's Opticks, with a few MS. additions by Newton
MS Add.4002	Lectiones Opticae
MS Add.4003	A book containing the commencement of a work on Hydrostatics, the greater part consisting of a dissertation partly metaphysical, partly theistic, on the constitution of matter, motion, the Cartesian philosophy etc.
MS Add.4004	Newton's Waste Book
MS Add.4005	Miscellaneous Papers
MS Add.4006	Correspondence, Articles of Agreement etc. about the Publication of Flamsteed's Observations
MS Add.4007	Copies of Newton-related letters and memoranda

The Portsmouth Collection

Title	Correspondence, Articles of Agreement etc. about the Publication of Flamsteed's Observations
Reference	MS Add.4006
Covering Dates	1705–1716

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Astronomy

Manuscripts/MS Add.3958-4007/MS Add.4006 contains:

Add.4006.1: 1-2

Catalogue of Manuscripts of Tycho Brahe.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1727

Add.4006.2: 3-5bis

Draft Letters from the Referees of 'Historia Coelestis Britannica' to Ole Roemer Relating to Tycho's Observations.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.4 [folio]; paper.

c 1705-c 1710

Add.4006.3: 6

Letter from John Arbuthnott to Isaac Newton.
Creator: Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735, satirist and physician.
f.1 [quarto]; paper.

30 July 1706

Add.4006.4: 7

Letter from Newton and the Other Referees to Prince George of Demark Concerning the Publication of Flamsteed's Observations.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

23 January 1705

Add.4006.5: 8-13

Two Drafts of Articles of Agreement made Between the Referees and John Flamsteed.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.6 [folio]; paper.

c 1705-c 1715

Add.4006.6: 14-15

Letter from John Flamsteed to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719, astronomer.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

25 October 1705

Add.4006.7: 16-17

Letter from John Flamsteed to Sir Isaac Newton.
Creator: Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719, astronomer.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

10 April 1708

Add.4006.8: 18-19

Order Sent to John Flamsteed.
Creator: Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

14 July 1708

Add.4006.9: 20-21

Letter from John Flamsteed to Sir Christopher Wren.
Creator: Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719, astronomer.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

19 July 1708

Add.4006.10

Letter from the Referees to Sir Isaac Newton. NO LONGER IN COLLECTION.

Add.4006.11: 22-24

An Account of the Expenses of Printing Mr John Flamsteed's Observations by order of his Royall Highness the Prince.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [mixed]; paper.

c 1705-c 1715

Add.4006.12: 25-26

Order to Pay £125 to Flamsteed for his First Catalogue of Fixed Stars.
Creator: Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1705-c 1715

Add.4006.13: 27

Receipt for the £125 Paid to Flamsteed for his First Catalogue of Fixed Stars.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
f.1 [scrap]; paper.

28 February 1705

Add.4006.14: 28

Letter from John Flamsteed to Sir Isaac Newton. Asking for the return of his MSS.
Creator: Flamsteed, John, 1646-1719, astronomer.
f.1 [folio]; paper.

23 April 1716

Add.4006.15: 29-30

Order by Queen Anne for the Appointment of a Board of Vistiors of the Royal Observatory.
Creator: Anne, 1665-1714, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

12 December 1710

Add.4006.16: 31-35

Three Drafts of Letters Relating to the Appointment of a Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.5 [folio]; paper.

1713

Add.4006.17: 36-37

Petition to the Queen of the President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London, for the Grant of a New Place of Meeting.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

c 1700-c 1720

Add.4006.18: 38-39

Draft Letter from Isaac Newton to John Flamsteed.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727, natural philosopher and mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

24 March 1711