St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 2/11/1
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21 Apr. 1855

Asking J.C.A. to meet M. & Mme. LeVerrier off train in Cambridge.

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

Adams/Box 2/3/2
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1 Feb. 1847

Reply to J.C.A.'s of 29th. Comments on article in Mechanics Mag. Dec. 1846. Advises to wait for new observation of New Planet (Neptune) to measure its distance from sun, not to calculate. Thanks for further figures of position of planet. Does not favour Hansen's methods of calculation, nor LeVerrier's use of single observations. On the Lunar & planetary reductions calculated from Camb. Observatory

(See G.B.A. to J.C.A. 27 Mar.1851 for table of Saturn dated 1 Feb.1847).

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/4/1
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29 Apr. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Quotes extract from letter received from LeVerrier on previous observations of the planet.

JCA to write to Stratford on the name Uranus.

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

Photograph of cartoon

Adams/Box 20/20/11/3
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1847 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Captioned "Decouverts nouvelles, caricatures par Cham". In L'illustration, journal universel. p456. [year not given] includes the caricature of Adams looking through telescope accross the channel at LeVerrier's notes. [Neptune]

de Noé, Charles Amédée (1818-1879) cartoonist

Autograph letter signed to George Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/43/2
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27 Oct. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Imminent departure of Thomas for Tonga. Neptune: JCA likely to get some credit; French angry with situation. JCA writing to LeVerrier.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 24/24/8/1
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21 Feb. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

LeVerrier's Christian names.

de Morgan, Augustus (1806-1871) mathematician

Autograph paper

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 25/15/3
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1819-1892 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

"Errata to be comm'd to M. LeVerrier...".

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/13/3
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28 Feb. 1892

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Encloses one letter of JCA's to LeVerrier, found by his daughter. Contact being made with Delaunay's family. Details of a paper to be included in the Collected Papers. Suggestion for a house which might suit EA.

Cayley, Arthur (1821-1895) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/27/3
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1 Jan. 1897

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acnowledgement of copy of the "memoir" sent. Recollections of showing JCA LeVerrier's obiturary.

Hamilton, Alex (fl 1891-1897)

Copy of letter to U.J.J. Le Verrier

Adams/Box 33/13/fol.18-19
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21 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

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

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