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Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/2 contains:
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8 Preliminary draft of 'De quadratura curvarum'
9 A revised version 'De quadratura curvarum'
10 Headings from 'De quadratura curvarum'
11 Analysis and Synthesis: Newton's declaration of the manner of their application in the 'Principia'
12 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins
13 Letter from Isaac Newton to Michael Dary
14 'Avertissement au Lecteur' and other short notes
15 Miscellaneous Newton papers, including some relating to the Leibnitz controversy
16 'To solve numerall equations by divisors of one dimension'
17 Newton's observations of the comet of 1682
18 The Letters and Papers of Newton
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The Macclesfield Collection

Title The Letters and Papers of Newton
Reference MS Add.9597/2/18
(former reference: 20.2)
Covering Dates 1669–1724
Extent and Medium paper
Content and context

III.4

Index Terms
Mathematics
Manuscripts/MS Add.9597/2/18 contains:
2 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 6 February 1669
3 Copy by John Collins of a letter by Isaac Newton 'to a friend of his', together with Collins's description of a telescope mentioned in the Newton letter.
Creator: Collins, John, 1625-1683.
f.1; paper.		 23 February 1668
4 Letter from Isaac Newton to Francis Aston. Index to volume incorrectly names recipient as John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 18 May 1669-May 18 1669
5 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 18 February 1669
6 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 11 July 1670
7 Draft letter from John Collins to Isaac Newton.
Creator: Collins, John, 1625-1683.
f.1; paper.		 13 July 1670–16 July 1670
8 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 16 July 1670
9 Draft letter from John Collins to Isaac Newton.
Creator: Collins, John, 1625-1683.
f.1; paper.		 19 July 1670
10 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 27 September 1670
11 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 20 July 1671
12 Letter from Isaac Newton to unnamed recipient, possibly Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 6 January 1671
13 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 18 January 1671
14 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 29 January 1671
15 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 10 February 1671
16 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 20 February 1671
17 Letter from John Collins to Isaac Newton. Collins's own copy of his letter.
Creator: Collins, John, 1625-1683.
ff.2; paper.		 30 April 1672
18 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 25 May 1672
19-20 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 6 July 1672
21 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 19 June 1672
22 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 8 July 1672
23 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins. A reply to a (lost) reply to 9597/18/18.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 13 July 1672
24 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 13 July 1672
25 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 30 July 1672
26 Letter from John Collins to Isaac Newton.
Creator: Collins, John, 1625-1683.
f.1; paper.		 1 August 1672
27 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 21 September 1672
28-29 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 10 December 1672
30 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 8 March 1672
31-32 Letter from Isaac Newton, probably to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 3 April 1673
33-34 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 9 April 1673
35 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 20 May 1673
36 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 17 September 1673
37 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 20 June 1674
38-39 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 17 November 1674
40 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 5 December 1674
41 Letter from Michael Dary to Isaac Newton. Probably Dary autograph.
Creator: Dary, Michael.
f.1; paper.		 15 October 1674
42 Letter from Isaac Newton to Michael Dary. Copy in Dary's hand.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 22 January 1675
43 Copy letter from Isaac Newton [to John Smith?].
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 24 July 1675
44 Letter from Isaac Newton [to John Smith?].
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 27 August 1675
45 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 14 December 1675
46-47 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg. In reply to a letter from Oldenburg that answered 9597/2/18/45.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 21 December 1675
48-49 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 10 January 1675
50 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 25 January 1675
51-52 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 21 December 1675
53-54 Letter from Isaac Newton probably to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 26 April 1676
55 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 5 September 1676
56 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 24 October 1676
57 Letter from John Collins to Isaac Newton.
Creator: Collins, John, 1625-1683.
f.1; paper.		 ? September 1676
58-59 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 8 November 1676
60 Letter from Isaac Newton to Henry Oldenburg.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 18 November 1676
61 Draft Letter from John Collins to Isaac Newton.
Creator: Collins, John, 1625-1683.
f.1; paper.		 12 October 1678
62-65 Letter from Isaac Newton to Robert Boyle.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.5; paper.		 28 February 1678
66 Letter from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 14 March 1696
67 Letter from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 11 February 1696
68 Letter from Isaac Newton to Edmund Halley.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 3 December 1724
68* Copy letter from Isaac Newton to the Duke d'Aumont. Goes before f.68.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 27 May 1714
69 Letter from John Keill to Isaac Newton.
Creator: Keill, John, 1671-1721.
ff.2; paper.		 23 February 1715–24 February 1715
70 Draft Letter from Newton Concerning Treasury Business.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 1718
71-78 Letter from Isaac Newton to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, including, "Observations upon the state of the coins of gold and silver". Non-autograph copy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.7 plus outer folder; paper.		 20 October 1718–22 October 1718
79-80 Notes on the Newton/Cotes correspondence of 1710. Newton autograph.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 c 1713
81 De natura acidorum. Newton autograph.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 c 1710
82 Tractatui de Quadratura Curvarum praemittatur haec admonitio - Ad Lectorum. f. 82a contains short notes relating to Principia.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.
83-88f Incomplete copy by David Gregory Tractatus de Quadratura Curvarum.
Creator: Gregory, David, 1659-1708, mathematician and astronomer.
ff.12; paper.
89-90 Optical diagrams. A diagram on f.90v shows the colours of the spectram compared to the notes of the musical scale.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.
91-92 Notes on the Leibnitz Controversy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 c 1713
93 Notes on the Leibnitz Controversy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 c 1713
94 Newton's draft response to the 'charta volens' of 29 July 1713; Newton on the authorship of the 'charta volens'.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.2; paper.		 c 1713
95 Notes on the Leibnitz Controversy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 c 1713
96 Newton's transcription of a letter from Leibnitz. It is not clear whether the translation is Newton's own, though the singular correction - 'deceipt' for 'foul play' suggests that it is, at least in part.
f.1; paper.
97-100 Notes on the Leibnitz Controversy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.5; paper.		 c 1713
101-106 Miscellaneous Notes on the Leibnitz Controversy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.6; paper.		 c 1713
107-108 The Motion of Bullets Shot Out of a Canon. f.108 belongs before f.107.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.
109 Notes from Microbius Saturnalia, Book V, Chapter 21. Also some mathematical notes.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
110 Notes on biblical chronology (recto) and optics (verso).
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
111 Notes primarily from Epiphanus concerning the Ebionites. Calculations on verso.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
112-113 Notes on fluxions from Newton's waste-book.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 c 1666
114 Notes relating to the Leibnitz controversy.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 c 1713
114* Note on fluxions. Comes before 114. Not Newton autograph.
f.1; paper.
115 Mathematical Notes.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
116 Of refraction of the velocity of light according to the density of bodies.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
117-118 The invention of theorems for finding the crookedness in lines.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 May 1665
119 Scholium.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.
120-121 Notes on the Leibnitz controversy.
ff.2; paper.		 c 1713
122 Note from Robert Gayer in thanks for a gift of wine (recto); Newton's notes on the parallax of the sun (verso).
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 5 Apr. 1680
123 Notes Concerning the Lunar and Solar Apogee.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
123* Miscellaneous Notes. Before 123.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
124-125 Draft of Part of Principia, Book II. Covers Proposition XXXVII. Theorema XXIX; Lemma IV-VIII and Propositio XXXVIII. Theorema XXX (here called Theorema XXIX.). See also item 9597/2/18/127. f.125v contains a list "Fallacies & false Hypotheses".
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.
125a Draft Letter from Sir Isaac Newton to Johann Burchard Mencke.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.		 1724
126 Notes on the Exodus. From Polemo, Africanus, Diodorus and others.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
127 Draft of Part of Principia, Book II. Covers Propositio XXXVII. See also item 9597/2/18/124-125.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.
128* Notes on God's omnipresence (recto) and rough calculations (verso). Comes before f.128.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
128-129 Miscellaneous Mathematical Notes.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.
130-141 Newton's Method of Fluxions. "As delivered in Dr Wallis's book, vol. 2nd, Page 391.".
ff.12; paper.
142 Notes on Optics.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
f.1; paper.
142* Fragment of Gregory Manuscript. Plus 2 pencil notes.
Creator: Gregory, James, 1638-1675.
f.1; paper.
142** Brief note by William Jones.
Creator: Jones, William, 1675-1749.
f.1; paper.
1 Letter from Isaac Newton to John Collins.
Creator: Newton, Sir Isaac, Knight, 1642-1727.
ff.2; paper.		 19 January 1669

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