St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 2/2/2
Item
14 Oct. 1846

Plans to write R.A.S. an account of English discovery of new planet (Neptune). Requests permission to publish J.C.A.'s correspondence to him. Addressed to "Rev.W.J. Adams".

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Correspondence between J.C. Adams and Sir George Biddell Airy

Adams/Box 2
File
5 Nov. 1845-12 June 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 34/10/fol.112
Item
26 Jan. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Copy of letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 34/7/fol.95-96
Item
17 Mar. 1854

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Secular variation of the moon's mean motion. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/4/1
Item
13 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "Account of some circumstances historically connected with the discovery of the planet exterior to Uranus", from the Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 16 p.385. [Neptune]

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Copy of letter to H.M. Butler

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/31/1
Item
15 Mar. 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

GBA's opinion of the efficiency of the CO, and that its assistants are overpaid. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography. Possible that this particular copy is one made for JCA at the time of writing of the letter.

Airy, Sir George Biddell (1801-1892) Knight, astronomer

Copy of letter to A. De Morgan