St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 19/19/1/1
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July 1712-Aug. 1712 (Undated.)

Draft of letter for which the final version does not survive, of late Jul./early Aug. 1712, containing a draft of the Scholium to Proposition 35 of the Principia, 2nd ed., 1713. See A.R. Hall and L. Tilling (eds.) The correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 5, 1709-1713. CUP, 1975. pp 315-319, letters 929 and 931.

The letter was discovered in JCA's papers with letters from D. Brewster, March - May 1855, (Box 5/37), and had evidently been sent to Brewster for comment and returned, through the post.

The remainder of Newton's drafts of letters to Cotes are among the Portsmouth Papers in CUL, and the final versions (other than that of this letter), are in Trinity College Library.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/41/1
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5 May 1869

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Leverrier and Chasles. Newton papers; Lord Portsmouth.

Hirst, Thomas Archer (1830-1892) mathematician

Copies of papers

Adams/Box 27/10/1-4
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1872-1888 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Transcripts of documents described in the catalogue of the Portsmouth Papers.

Sect. I. X. C.2 (probably) Fragment on the solid of least resistance.

Sect. I. X. C.3 Atmospheric refraction.

Sect. I. XI. On the invention of fluxions.

Sect. I. XV. No. 3-4 Draft of letter on finding longitude.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) Knight, natural philosopher and mathematician

Autograph letter signed to James Porter

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 15/50/1
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1 Jan. 1872

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Binding of the printed catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection.

Taylor, Charles (1840-1908) Hebrew scholar and Master of St John's College, Cambridge

Lists of location and content of various Newton papers, for the Newton MSS Syndicate

Adams/Box 27/3/1-13
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1872-1888 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Mostly in JCA's hand.

Newton Manuscripts Syndicate

Copies of papers

Adams/Box 27/8
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1872-1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"On the form of the solid of least resistance" Draft of letter from Newton to David Gregory, 1694... etc. MS copies of documents printed in the Appendix to the Preface of the printed catalogue of the Portsmouth Papers (copy in Box 27).

Newton Manuscripts Syndicate

Copies of papers