| Title |
Letters to J.C. Adams, M-O |
| Reference |
Box 11 |
| Creator |
Various |
| Covering Dates |
3 Nov. 1846–4 Mar. 1890 |
| Extent and Medium |
107 letters; paper |
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| St John's Library/Adams/Box 11 contains: |
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Full and new moon, Jerusalem, March and April, AD.29, 30, 33. For publication. JCA's calculations for reply on back.
Creator: John Brown McClellan, d 1916.
3p, 1p JCA's calculations; paper. |
23 July 1873 |
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2/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Letter of introduction for R.H. McCormick, to visit C.O. Foundation of Observatory in Virginia, U.S.A.
Creator: R.S. McCulloch.
3p; paper. |
13 May 1870 |
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3/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Perpetual motion.
Creator: Peter McFarlane.
4p, slip; paper. |
20 Oct. 1850 |
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3/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Perpetual motion.
Creator: Peter McFarlane.
2p; paper. |
3 June 1851 |
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4/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Possibly not addressed to JCA: refers to "your son". Benefice of Stone: JFM writing as Bish. of Oxford.
Creator: John Fielder MacKarness, 1820-1889.
1p; paper. |
3 Aug. 1878 |
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5/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for copy of paper on observed irregularities of Uranus. Observations of Neptune at the Cape.
Creator: Sir Thomas Maclear, 1794-1879.
2p, address; paper. |
30 May 1848 |
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6/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French. LeVerrier Recherchces astronomiques.
Creator: E. Magne.
1p; paper. |
18 Aug. 1889 |
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6/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French. LeVerrier Recherchces astronomiques. Encloses reply from Secretary of Paris Observatory (11/6/2a).
Creator: E. Magne.
1p; paper. |
27 Aug. 1889 |
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6/2a
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Autograph letter signed to E. Magne. In French. LeVerrier paper on Uranus. Enclosed with E.M. to JCA 27 Aug. 1889.
Creator: Secretary of Paris Observatory.
2p; paper. |
26 Aug. 1889 |
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6/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French. Found paper on theory of perturbations.
Creator: E. Magne.
1p; paper. |
6 Sep. 1889 |
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6/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French. LeVerrier Recherches astronomiques.
Creator: E. Magne.
2p; paper. |
11 Oct. 1889 |
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7/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Motion of the moon.
Creator: Philip Thomas Main, 1840-1899.
3p; paper. |
30 Jan. 1879 |
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8/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Heliocentric errors of Neptune.
Creator: Robert Main, 1808-1878.
1p; paper. |
17 Jan. 1851 |
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8/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar acceleration paper for RAS. Delaunay's paper on "Inequalities of long period... Venus".
Creator: Robert Main, 1808-1878.
4p; paper. |
16 Dec. 1859 |
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8/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Alexander Freeman of SJC.
Creator: Robert Main, 1808-1878.
4p; paper. |
3 Mar. 1863 |
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9/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Writing as Bishop of Durham. Invitation to visit Auckland Castle.
Creator: Edward Maltby, 1770-1859.
1p, envelope; paper. |
17 Aug. 1847 |
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10/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Requires help in writing address in favour of Delaunay. Huggins.
Creator: R.H. Manners.
2p; paper. |
16 Dec. 1869 |
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10/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for help in writing address in favour of Delaunay.
Creator: R.H. Manners.
2p; paper. |
4 Feb. 1870 |
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10/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Invitation to dinner during Delaunay's visit.
Creator: R.H. Manners.
2p; paper. |
7 Feb. 1870 |
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11/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Encloses notes (11/11/2), and newspaper cutting on total solar eclipse in New Zealand.
Creator: Charles Rous Marten.
2p, newspaper cutting; paper. |
9 Sep. 1881 |
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11/2
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Notes sent to J.C. Adams. Notes on total solar eclipse in New Zealand. Enclosed with letter (11/11/1).
Creator: Charles Rous Marten.
6p; paper. |
9 Sep. 1881 |
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12/1
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Autograph letter signed to Warren De La Rue. Thanks De La Rue and JCA for sending a copy of JCA's note to the Astronomer Royal to AM. Secular Acceleration of the Mean Longitude. Hansen.
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
3p; paper. |
1 Feb. 1866 |
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12/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Observatory at Ferndene. Failure of. Need for new job.
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
6p; paper. |
13 Oct. 1873 |
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12/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Observatory at Ferndene. Failure of. Intercession with G.B.A. and Greenwich Board of Visitors sought. Possibility of applying for professorship vacated by Brunnow (Dublin). A.M's publishing history.
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
8p; paper. |
17 Mar. 1874 |
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12/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Possibility of applying for professorship vacated by Brunnow (Dublin). Ferndene: part of Council of R.A.S. in disaster. Plummer of Durham appointed to Ipswich Observatory. Possible post in Peking (rejected).
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
6p; paper. |
27 Mar. 1874 |
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13/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. G.B.Airy, Sheepshanks, Lascell. Dublin professorship. Laurence Parsons, 4th Earl of Rosse.
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
8p; paper. |
31 Mar. 1874 |
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13/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Dublin professorship.
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
4p; paper. |
8 Apr. 1874 |
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13/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Dublin professorship.
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
1p; paper. |
9 Apr. 1874 |
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13/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Dublin professorship. Personal history for. Problem of the perturbations of Hyperion attached.
Creator: Albert Marth, 1828-1897.
2p, 1p problem; paper. |
23 Apr. 1874 |
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14/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Congratulations on Senior Wranglership and Smith's Prize.
Creator: John Martin, 1816-1891.
4p, envelope; paper. |
2 Jan. 1848 |
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15/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Advice on astronomical timekeeping equipment for the Cavendish Laboratories.
Creator: James Clerk Maxwell, 1831-1879.
4p; paper. |
22 June 1871 |
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15/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Spherical harmonics - zonal, tesseral and sectional harmonics. Todd of Washington on Jupiter's satellites.
Creator: James Clerk Maxwell, 1831-1879.
3p; paper. |
14 July 1879 |
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16/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Sends poem by Sir John Herschel (attached).
Creator: Mary G. May.
3p, 3p poem; paper. |
9 Jan. 1888 |
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17/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Julian calendar.
Creator: Charles Merivale, 1808-1893.
3p; paper. |
19 Oct. 1849 |
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18/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Algebra relevant to JCA's work? from Gregory's Trigonometry.
Creator: William Hallowes Miller, 1801-1880.
3p; paper. |
1819–1880 |
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19/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French.
Creator: Joseph Milsand.
2p, envelope; paper. |
6 May 1880 |
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19/2
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Autograph letter to Eliza Adams. Intended visit.
Creator: Joseph Milsand.
2p; paper. |
28 Feb. 1870 |
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19/3
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Autograph letter to Eliza Adams. Intended visit.
Creator: Joseph Milsand.
2p; paper. |
2 March 1870 |
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20/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Restoration of Newton chapel in Colsterworth Church.
Creator: John Mirehouse, 1839-1911.
4p; paper. |
17 Nov. 1876 |
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20/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Restoration of Newton's sundial at Colsterworth Church.
Creator: John Mirehouse, 1839-1911.
3p; paper. |
4 Jan. 1890 |
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20/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Newton's sundials at Woolsthorpe and Colsterworth Church.
Creator: John Mirehouse, 1839-1911.
4p; paper. |
9 Jan. 1890 |
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21/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Offer of job in Cincinnati Observatory.
Creator: O.M. Mitchell.
4p; paper. |
7 Feb. 1854 |
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22/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thomas Mogford, painter of portrait of JCA. Killed by his wallpaper.
Creator: J. Mogford.
4p, envelope; paper. |
6 Dec. 1882 |
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23/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In German. Faye's comet?.
Creator: Axel Möller, 1830-1896.
1p; paper. |
26 Nov. 1870 |
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24/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Use of algebra. Stamped self addressed envelope attached.
Creator: G. Morill.
3p, envelope; paper. |
4 Nov. 1865 |
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25/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French. From University of France at Marseille. Personal: thanks for hospitality after visit to Cambridge.
Creator: Morren.
3p; paper. |
19 July 1868 |
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25/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French. From University of France at Marseille. Personal: thanks for hospitality after visit to Cambridge.
Creator: Morren.
2p; paper. |
21 Jan. 1869 |
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25/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. In French. From University of France at Marseille.
Creator: Morren.
3p; paper. |
2 June 1869 |
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26/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Mr Ellery of Melbourne. JRN's coal stoves. Science in education. Piazzi Smyth.
Creator: James Robert Napier, 1821-1879.
4p; paper. |
23 Jan. 1876 |
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27/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Thanks for copies of the Cambridge Observations, sent to Cracow Observatory.
Creator: Francis Narlinski.
1p; paper. |
27 Aug. 1866 |
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28/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Correction of Hansen's Semi-diameter of the moon, from the occultations of stars.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
3p; paper. |
21 Nov. 1873 |
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28/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Correction of Hansen's Semi-diameter of the moon, from the occultations of stars. Method.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
2p; paper. |
11 Dec. 1873 |
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28/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Correction of Hansen's Semi-diameter of the moon, from the occultations of stars.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
3p; paper. |
2 Feb. 1874 |
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28/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Mean geocentric distance of the moon.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
2p; paper. |
23 Sep. 1874 |
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29/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar theory. Report of EN's work on. Newcomb's lunar work.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
4p; paper. |
16 Apr. 1877 |
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29/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar theory. EN's work on. Jupiter.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
3p; paper. |
18 Apr. 1877 |
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29/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar theory. EN's work on. Newcomb's work.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
4p; paper. |
28 Aug. 1877 |
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29/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar theory. EN's work on.
Creator: Edmund Neison, 1849-1940.
4p; paper. |
17 Nov. 1877 |
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30/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Writing as Vice Chancellor. Superintendence of C.O. Offer of.
Creator: Latimer Neville.
2p; paper. |
15 Feb. 1861 |
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31/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Neptune. Solar parallax.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
4p; paper. |
12 Nov. 1867 |
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31/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Constant term of the moon's parallax.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
1p; paper. |
11 Aug. 1871 |
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31/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Constant term of the moon's parallax. Progress of work on the moon.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
3p; paper. |
19 Sep. 1871 |
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31/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Mr. Babbage's library. Death of Delaunay. Action of planets on the moon.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
4p; paper. |
13 Dec. 1872 |
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31/5
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Mr Proctor, on Newcomb, on Adams on Neptune. Lunar investigations, progress of.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
3p; paper. |
19 Jan. 1874 |
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32/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Moon's parallax. Hansen's theorem. Books on lunar theory.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
4p; paper. |
18 Aug. 1875 |
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32/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. JCA on Neptune and Uranus in Liouville's Journal [n.s. tom.2, 1876]: attack by Peirce.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
3p; paper. |
26 May 1876 |
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32/3
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Letter signed to J.C. Adams. Damoiseau's Tables of the Satellites of Jupiter. (table enclosed). JCA on Neptune and Uranus: Peirce.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
4p, 1p tables; paper. |
29 Nov. 1876 |
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32/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar theory. Paper of SN's forthcoming in Comptes Rendus. Appointment of another as Superintendent of Washington Observatory. State of science in the USA.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
4p; paper. |
30 Sep. 1877 |
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32/5
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Letter signed to J.C. Adams. Mr Neison on lunar theory.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
5p; paper. |
15 Mar. 1879 |
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33/1
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Letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar theory. Possibility of Nautical Almanac Offices in Washington and London co-operating in calculation of Lunar Ephemeris. JCA's influence with Mr. Hind requested. Mr Hill on Jupiter and Saturn. Mercury.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
11p; paper. |
20 Jan. 1880 |
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33/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Lunar theory.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
4p; paper. |
19 Mar. 1880 |
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33/3
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Letter signed to J.C. Adams. Centennial of American Academy. Possible visit by JCA. Lunar tables.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
5p; paper. |
14 Apr. 1880 |
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33/4
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Note on Simon Newcomb's letters to J.C. Adams.
Creator: Sir Donald MacAlister, 1854-1934.
1p; paper. |
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34/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Airy's numerical lunar theory. Moon's parallax.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
8p; paper. |
7 Jan. 1883 |
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34/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Airy's numerical lunar theory.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
6p; paper. |
25 Feb. 1884 |
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34/3
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Typescript letter signed to J.C. Adams. Opinion on distribution of unpublished copies of planetary work.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
2p; paper. |
14 Nov. 1888 |
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34/4
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Letter signed to J.C. Adams. Opinion on distribution of unpublished copies of planetary work. Hyperion and Titan. Portsmouth Papers catalogue.
Creator: Simon Newcomb, 1835-1909.
6p; paper. |
25 Jan. 1889 |
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35/1
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Calculations signed sent to J.C. Adams.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p; paper. |
14 May 1880 |
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35/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals. Textbook on.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
4p; paper. |
19 Nov. 1880 |
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35/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals. Publications on.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
3p; paper. |
24 Dec. 1880 |
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35/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals. Publications on.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
2p; paper. |
12 June 1882 |
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35/5
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Reformed spelling. Elliptic integrals, publications on.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
4p; paper. |
7 Apr. 1884 |
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36/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals. Encloses table.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
3p, 2p calculations; paper. |
10 May 1886 |
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36/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals. Herbert Mozley, Kings College. A. De Morgan. Decimal currency.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
4p, envelope; paper. |
7 Dec. 1886 |
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36/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p; paper. |
18 Dec. 1886 |
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36/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
3p, envelope; paper. |
31 Dec. 1886 |
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37/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p; paper. |
4 Jan. 1887 |
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37/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p, 1p calculations, envelope; paper. |
4 Jan. 1887 |
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37/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p, envelope; paper. |
2 May 1887 |
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37/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
3p, envelope; paper. |
4 May 1887 |
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38/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
2p, envelope; paper. |
11 May 1887 |
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38/2
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Calculation of corrections of F.W. Newman's table of elliptic integrals, and note of time taken doing so. Envelope probably unrelated.
Creator: John Couch Adams, 1819-1892.
2p, envelope; paper. |
21 Oct. 1887 |
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38/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
2p; paper. |
3 Nov. 1887 |
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39/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Libyan vocabulary.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p, envelope; paper. |
18 Feb. 1888 |
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39/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Libyan vocabulary.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p; paper. |
19 Jan. 1888 |
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39/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Anticyclics. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
3p; paper. |
1 May 1889 |
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39/4
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p; paper. |
13 Nov. 1889 |
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39/5
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Elliptic integrals.
Creator: Francis William Newman, 1805-1897.
1p; paper. |
4 Mar. 1890 |
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40/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Prof Peirce: Uranus and Neptune. Bowditch's translation of Laplace.
Creator: H.A. Newton.
3p; paper. |
12 Nov. 1881 |
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41/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Neptune.
Creator: John Pringle Nichol, 1804-1859.
4p, envelope; paper. |
12 July 1847 |
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42/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Huyghem to Wallis about Saturn in 1665.
Creator: William Henry Noble, 1834-1892.
2p; paper. |
29 Jan. 1883 |
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43/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Mr Grattan Guinness: introduction for.
Creator: C. Orde Brown.
6p; paper. |
16 June 1877 |
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44/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Congratulations on discovery of Neptune. Suggests names.
Creator: James O'Reilly.
3p; paper. |
3 Nov. 1846 |
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45/1
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Request for photograph.
Creator: Thomas Overton, d 1893.
4p; paper. |
10 Oct. 1861 |
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45/2
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Contribution towards fund for Miss C. State of agricultural economy in Essex.
Creator: Thomas Overton, d 1893.
3p; paper. |
25 Jan. 1883 |
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45/3
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Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams. Cause of recent unusual sunsets: Krakatoa; vapour; meteor dust; electricity?.
Creator: Thomas Overton, d 1893.
4p; paper. |
25 Dec. 1883 |
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