| Title |
Correspondence, mostly to and from Eliza Adams, after J.C. Adams's death |
| Reference |
Box 28 |
| Creator |
Various |
| Covering Dates |
18 Jan. 1892–30 Sep. 1946 |
| Extent and Medium |
105 items; paper |
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| St John's Library/Adams/Box 28 contains: |
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1
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Proofs and final version of notice of death of J.C. Adams. In English.
Creator: Unknown.
6 sheets; paper. |
23 Jan. 1892 |
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2
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Proofs and final version of notice of death of J.C. Adams. In Latin.
Creator: Unknown.
6 sheets; paper. |
23 Jan. 1892 |
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3
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Drafts in Latin and English for two memorial inscriptions to J.C. Adams. No.2 clearly for use in Cornwall. Possibly JEB Mayor's drafts for Truro Cathedral memorial, which were not used.
Creator: Unknown.
4p; paper. |
1892 |
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4/1
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Draft autograph letter signed to John Peile. Addressed to Peile as Vice Chancellor. Offer to fund a "John Couch Adams Astronomer" in CO.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
3p; paper. |
16 Feb. 1892 |
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4/2
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Draft letter to John Peile. Addressed to Peile as Vice Chancellor. Offer to fund a "John Couch Adams Astronomer" in CO.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
4p; paper. |
10 May 1892 |
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4/3
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Draft autograph letter to John Peile. Addressed to Peile as Vice Chancellor. Offer to fund a "John Couch Adams Astronomer" in CO.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
7p; paper. |
12 May 1892 |
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4/4
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Proposals of the Syndicate for the superintendence of the Observatory after J.C. Adams. Including Mrs A's offer to fund a "John Couch Adams Astronomer" in CO.
Creator: Cambridge Observatory Syndicate.
2p; paper. |
7 May 1892 |
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5/1-3
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Drafts and proofs of cards acknowledging sympathy.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
3 cards; paper. |
26 Jan. 1892 |
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5/4
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Draft autograph letter signed to Charles Taylor. Biographical details of JCA.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
4p; paper. |
20 Feb. 1892 |
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5/5
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Autograph letter to unknown recipient. Fragment of letter describing visit to Cornwall with JCA.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
2p; paper. |
1892 |
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5/6
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Poem, possibly by Lee-Hamilton, written out in EA's hand.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
1p; paper. |
1827–1919 |
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6/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: Elizabeth Cowell.
7p, envelope; paper. |
2 Jan. 1892 |
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6/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: Elizabeth Cowell.
3p; paper. |
18 Jan. 1892 |
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7/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence. Offer of College Chapel for funeral or memorial service.
Creator: Charles Taylor, 1840-1908.
3p, envelope; paper. |
22 Jan. 1892 |
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7/2
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Autograph letter to Donald MacAlister. Interrment in Westminster Abbey. Writer probably an elderly fellow of St John's.
Creator: Charles Taylor, 1840-1908.
3p; paper. |
23 Jan. 1892 |
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7/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Enclosing telegram from the Chancellor concerning burial of JCA in Westminster Abbey.
Creator: George Downing Liveing, 1827-1924.
3p, 2p telegram; paper. |
27 Jan. 1892 |
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8/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Enclosing Order of Service from Memorial in St John's College Chapel, 26 Jan. 1892.
Creator: A. Caldecott.
4p, printed enclosure, envelope; paper. |
31 Jan. 1892 |
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8/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Offer to fund a "John Couch Adams Astronomer" in CO.
Creator: John Peile, 1837-1910.
3p; paper. |
16 Feb. 1892 |
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9/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Forwarding letters.
Creator: Charles Taylor, 1840-1908.
1p; paper. |
12 Mar. 1892 |
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9/2
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Autograph letter signed to Charles Pritchard. Memories of JCA and opinion of his science.
Creator: William Towler Kingsley, 1815-1916.
8p; paper. |
23 Mar. 1892 |
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10/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Sending sketches of JCA. Copy (presumed same sketch referred to) attached.
Creator: Lucette E. Barker.
3p, 1p enclosure, envelope; paper. |
16 May 1892 |
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10/2
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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister. Recommending JCA's offprint collection goes to SJC.
Creator: Sir Joseph Larmor, 1857-1942.
4p; paper. |
9 June 1892 |
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10/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Acknowledgement of photograph of JCA given to the corporation of Launceston.
Creator: Mayor of Launceston.
2p; paper. |
3 July 1892 |
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11/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: Robert Tucker, 1832-1905.
4p; paper. |
20 Oct. 1892 |
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11/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: Henry Moulton.
1p; paper. |
22 Oct. 1892 |
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11/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: Lewis Hensley.
1p; paper. |
22 Oct. 1892 |
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11/4
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers. For Royal Society Edinburgh.
Creator: Peter Guthrie Tait, 1831-1901.
1p; paper. |
22 Oct. 1892 |
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12/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers. For Edinburgh Mathematical Society.
Creator: John B. Clark.
2p; paper. |
24 Oct. 1892 |
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12/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: H. Pocklington.
2p; paper. |
2 Nov. 1892 |
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12/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: Dr Garland.
1p; paper. |
4 Nov. 1892 |
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12/4
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: John William Cole, 1859-1897.
2p; paper. |
5 Nov. 1892 |
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13/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: G.W. Niven.
2p; paper. |
5 Nov. 1892 |
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13/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Application for copies of offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: William Stockton.
3p; paper. |
7 Nov. 1892 |
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13/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Biographical information about JCA.
Creator: George Adams, b 1823.
4p; paper. |
4 Dec. 1892 |
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13/4
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. On the sorting of the Observatory Library.
Creator: George Goode.
3p; paper. |
12 Dec. 1892 |
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14/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. On the sorting of the Observatory Library.
Creator: George Goode.
2p; paper. |
13 Dec. 1892 |
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14/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Personal. Airy and Neptune controversy.
Creator: James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, 1848-1928.
8p; paper. |
27 Dec. 1892 |
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14/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Glaisher's memoir of JCA. Airy and Neptune controversy.
Creator: George Salmon, 1819-1904.
4p; paper. |
11 Jan. 1893 |
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15/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Glaisher's memoir of JCA. Airy and Neptune controversy. Biographical information about JCA, for MacAlister's biography.
Creator: Francis Bashforth, 1819-1912.
8p; paper. |
8 May 1893 |
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15/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Acknowledgement of offprints of JCA received.
Creator: G.W. Niven.
1p; paper. |
12 June 1893 |
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15/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Seeking letter from JCA about Newton and Bacon.
Creator: Henry Montagu Butler, 1833-1918.
3p; paper. |
17 July 1893 |
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15/4
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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister. Comments on DM's lecture on JCA. Social.
Creator: B. Harwood.
4p; paper. |
15 Sep. 1893 |
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16/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. In French. History of correspondence with JCA.
Creator: C. Souillart.
3p; paper. |
15 Sep. 1893 |
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16/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. In French. Description of correspondence with JCA.
Creator: C. Souillart.
2p; paper. |
22 Sep. 1893 |
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16/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. JCA's Collected papers.
Creator: Ralph Allen Sampson, 1866-1939.
6p; paper. |
29 Oct. 1893 |
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17/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. In French. Offprints of JCA's papers.
Creator: Constantin Gogou.
2p; paper. |
30 Oct. 1893 |
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17/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. In French. Acknowledgement of receipt of offprints and sympathy for death of brother.
Creator: Constantin Gogou.
2p; paper. |
22 Nov. 1893 |
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17/3
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Autograph letter signed to Arthur Cayley. In French. JCA's correspondence. Endorsed to EA by Cayley at head.
Creator: Ph. Hermite.
1p; paper. |
6 Dec. 1893 |
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18/1
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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister. Encloses papers required [for Collected Papers?].
Creator: William Grylls Adams (1836-1915).
3p; paper. |
7 Dec. 1893 |
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18/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Acknowledgement of receipt of photograph of JCA. Social.
Creator: W.C. McDonald.
3p; paper. |
15 Dec. 1893 |
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18/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. JCA's Collected papers.
Creator: Ralph Allen Sampson, 1866-1939.
3p, envelope; paper. |
11 Mar. 1893 |
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19/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. JCA's Collected papers.
Creator: Herbert Hall Turner, 1861-1930.
1p; paper. |
18 June 1894 |
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19/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Permission to reproduce portrait by Hubert von Herkomer (in JCA's Collected papers?).
Creator: Siegfried H. Herkomer.
1p; paper. |
8 Oct. 1894 |
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19/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Scientific priority: Neptune, and FB's work at Woolwich.
Creator: Francis Bashforth, 1819-1912.
4p; paper. |
16 May 1895 |
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19/4
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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister. Neptune controversy.
Creator: Frederick A.H. Vinon.
4p; paper. |
17 May 1895 |
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20/1
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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister. Neptune controversy. Memories of Airy.
Creator: D. Biddle.
4p; paper. |
17 May 1895 |
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20/2
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Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister. Offer to build Free Library in Launceston in JCA's memory.
Creator: John Passmore Edwards, 1823-1911.
2p; paper. |
4 June 1895 |
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20/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Social.
Creator: George Salmon, 1819-1904.
3p; paper. |
17 June 1895 |
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20/4
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Collected Papers of JCA.
Creator: Ralph Allen Sampson, 1866-1939.
4p; paper. |
22 June 1896 |
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21/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Collected Papers of JCA.
Creator: Ralph Allen Sampson, 1866-1939.
2p; paper. |
30 June 1896 |
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21/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Neptune controversy. FB's memories.
Creator: Francis Bashforth, 1819-1912.
4p; paper. |
16 Mar. 1897 |
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21/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. In French. Photograph of M. Tenten.
Creator: Lucien Ploque.
1p; paper. |
11 June 1900 |
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21/4
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Enclosing cutting from The Athenaeum, 30 Mar. 1901. Review of part of the Collected Papers.
Creator: Edward Byles Cowell.
2p, cutting; paper. |
30 Mar. 1901 |
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22/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Acknowledgement of gift of MS of Perturbations of Uranus. [Neptune].
Creator: Charles Taylor, 1840-1908.
4p, envelope; paper. |
12 Nov. 1901 |
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22/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Royal Astronomical Society's "Adams Night." Viewing of the MS of the Perturbations of Uranus.
Creator: Herbert Hall Turner, 1861-1930.
8p, envelope; paper. |
14 Dec. 1901 |
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23/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Acknowledgement of receipt of picture of JCA for McGill University.
Creator: Henry Bovey.
1p; paper. |
26 Aug. 1907 |
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23/2
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Typed letter signed to Eliza Adams. Tablet in Laneast Church.
Creator: Edward Charles Graff.
3p; paper. |
16 Nov. 1907 |
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23/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Obituaries of writer's grandfather: ?Graham of the CO?.
Creator: Sam Graham.
4p; paper. |
21 Mar. 1908 |
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24/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Sympathy.
Creator: J. Elias McTaggart.
2p; paper. |
9 Apr. 1909 |
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24/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. "Bessie".
Creator: T.F.C. Huddleston.
3p; paper. |
16 Mar. 1909 |
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24/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Social. Illegible signature.
Creator: Unknown.
4p; paper. |
5 Oct. 1910 |
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25/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Enclosing copy of photo. of JCA taken 1856. (Photo. 28/25/3).
Creator: Osmond Fisher, 1817-1914.
2p; paper. |
10 May 1911 |
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25/2
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Autograph letter signed to W.M. Smart. Enclosing copy of photo. of JCA taken 1856. (Photo. 28/25/3). Had been borrowed by RAS to copy.
Creator: Edna Wadsworth.
1p; paper. |
30 Sep. 1946 |
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26/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Happy current state of the CO.
Creator: Herbert Hall Turner, 1861-1930.
4p; paper. |
25 Dec. 1911 |
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26/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Deaths of astronomers.
Creator: Herbert Hall Turner, 1861-1930.
2p; paper. |
27 Dec. 1912 |
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27/1
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Autograph letter signed to R.F. Scott. Offer of JCA's papers to St John's College.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
3p; paper. |
7 Aug. 1916 |
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27/2
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Autograph letter signed to R.F. Scott. Offer of JCA's papers to SJC.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
1p; paper. |
5 Sep. 1916 |
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27/3
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Autograph letter signed to R.F. Scott. Offer of JCA's papers to SJC.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
2p, envelope; paper. |
3 Oct. 1916 |
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27/4
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Autograph letter signed to R.F. Scott. Offer of JCA's papers to SJC.
Creator: Eliza Adams, 1827-1919.
1p; paper. |
9 Nov. 1916 |
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28/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Sympathy after death of JCA.
Creator: Elizabeth Cowell.
3p; paper. |
1892 |
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28/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Glaisher's memoir on JCA.
Creator: Octavia C. Kingsley.
4p; paper. |
17 Mar. 1892 |
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28/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Books recommended.
Creator: Edward Spencer, b 1818.
4p; paper. |
29 Jan. 1863–29 Jan. 1892 |
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28/4
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Social.
Creator: Edward Spencer, b 1818.
4p; paper. |
10 Jan. 1863–10 Jan. 1892 |
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28/5
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Publication of ES's letter about JCA in The Standard. Memories of JCA as a student.
Creator: Edward Spencer, b 1818.
7p; paper. |
18 May 1892 |
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29/1
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Autograph letter signed to R.F. Scott. JCA's chair from the Observatory.
Creator: Lloyd A. Brooke.
3p; paper. |
11 Mar. 1919 |
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29/2
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Autograph letter signed to R.F. Scott. JCA's chair from the Observatory.
Creator: Lloyd A. Brooke.
2p; paper. |
18 Mar. 1919 |
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30/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: Thomas George Bonney, 1833-1923.
4p; paper. |
22 Jan. 1892 |
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30/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: Henry Montagu Butler, 1833-1918.
4p, envelope; paper. |
22 Jan. 1892 |
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30/3
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Autograph letter signed to A. Graham. Letter of condolence.
Creator: H. Geelmuyden.
1p; paper. |
22 Jan. 1892 |
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30/4
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Printed card. Reads 'J. Janssen de l'Institut. Directeur de l'Observatoire d'Astronomie Physique. Meudon (Seine sur Oise)'.
Creator: J. Janssen.
1p; paper. |
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31/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: Edward Ball Knobel, 1841-1930.
4p; paper. |
23 Feb. 1892 |
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31/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: George Downing Liveing, 1827-1924.
2p, envelope; paper. |
22 Feb. 1892 |
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31/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, 1825-1910.
3p; paper. |
22 Feb. 1892 |
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31/4
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: L.L. Pickering.
4p; paper. |
25 Feb. 1892 |
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32/1
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Printed card.
Creator: Francesco Porro.
1p; paper. |
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32/2
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Autograph postcard to Eliza Adams. Card of condolence.
Creator: Dr Ragona.
1p; paper. |
18 Feb. 1892 |
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32/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence enclosed from Royal Astronomical Society.
Creator: J.F. Tennant.
2p, 2p enclosure, envelope; paper. |
13 Feb. 1892 |
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33/1
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: George Salmon, 1819-1904.
4p, envelope; paper. |
24 Jan. 1892 |
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33/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: Smithsonian Institution.
1p; paper. |
29 Feb. 1892 |
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33/3
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: C. Stone.
4p; paper. |
23 Mar. 1892 |
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34/1
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Printed card with autograph message of condolence.
Creator: E. Fergola.
1p; paper. |
1892 |
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34/2
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Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams. Letter of condolence.
Creator: Herbert Hall Turner, 1861-1930.
2p; paper. |
23 Jan. 1892 |
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34/3
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Passage in German headed 'Der Braut Kranz'.
Creator: Unknown.
1p; paper. |
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