Janus: The Macclesfield Collection

Manuscripts/MS Add.9597 contains:
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8	Finance
9	Fluxions
10	Geography
11	Geometry
12	Humanities
13	Letters
14	Navigation
15	Optics
16	Physics
17	Miscellaneous Mathematics
18	Miscellaneous

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The Macclesfield Collection

Title	Letters
Reference	MS Add.9597/13
Covering Dates	1606–1747

Content and context

This category contains the manuscript letters in the Macclesfield collection excluding the Newton holographs and letters to Newton. It also contains a few other items which were bound alongside these letters.

Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/13 contains:

Abraham Sharp: Table of areas of the Segments of a Circle; Tables of Logarithms; Autograph Letters.
Creator: Sharp, Abraham, bap. 1653, d. 1742, mathematician and scientific instrument maker.
ff.45 [quarto]; paper.

9 January 1704–30 January 1720

Copies of Letters by Newton, Halley and Flamsteed. Unknown hand, later annotated by Jones.
ff.76 [quarto]; paper.

c 1710

Letter from George Anderson, probably to William Jones.
Creator: Anderson, George, fl 1731-1740, mathematician.
ff.2 [folio]; paper.

11 April 1745

An Abstract of the 3rd Volume of the Letters of Des Cartes.
Creator: Collins, John, 1626-1683, mathematician and scientific administrator.
ff.23 [quarto]; paper.

c 1650-c 1683

Letters and Papers A-W.
Creator: Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield.
ff.283 (and ff.3 preliminary); paper; Manuscript.

25 February 1606–28 October 1742

Letters & Papers of Barrow, Collins, Dary, Flamsteed, Gregory, Halley, Strode and Wallis.
Creator: Parker family, Earls of Macclesfield.
paper.

1660–1677

Letter from William Jones to James Logan.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749, mathematician.
ff.2 [quarto]; paper.

20 February 1736

Letter from Francis Hauksbee the younger, probably to William Jones.
Creator: Hauksbee, Francis, fl. 1723-1763, instrument maker and lecturer on science.
f.1 [quarto]; paper.

18 November 1747

An account of Mr Dodwells book de Cyclis, in a Letter to Robert Nelson Esqr. From Dr Halley. A critique of Henry Dodwell's 1701 treatise on biblical chronology entitled "De Veteribus Graecorum Romanorum Cyclis.".
ff.6 [folio]; paper.

c 1714

Letter from Robert Nelson to Edmund Halley.
Creator: Nelson, Robert, 1656-1715, philanthropist and religious writer.
ff.3 [mixed]; paper.

9 September 1714

Manuscript Notebook Containing a Draft Letter.
ff.12 [quarto]; paper.

14 December 1658