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Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/15/1
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26 Jan. 1859

See 36/16/3 for French translation. Pleased that CD's value of Secular acceleration of Moon's mean motion agrees with JCA's. Has carried the work further since publication and has a better method: sets out some more results for CD's use and for him to communicate to the [French] Academy of Sciences on JCA's behalf. Acknowledges copies of papers received from CD.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/15/2
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8 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See 36/17/1 for French translation. Acknowledgement of copy of paper on acceleration of the moon sent by CD. JCA's latest equation. Death of JCA's father.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/16/1
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12 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See 36/17/2 for French translation. JCA's latest equation for secular acceleration of moon's mean motion.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/16/1
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25 Mar. 1857

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Translation into French of JCA's original. Probably done by or for Delaunay. See JCA's English draft at 16/14/1-2; transcript of same at 36/19/1. Letter or extract of letter collected for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/16/2
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22 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See 36/17/3 for French translation. CD's letter verified JCA's coefficients in expression of secular acceleration of moon's mean motion. JCA has discovered error and corrected it, in his own work.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/16/2
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23 Apr. 1857

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Translation into French of JCA's original. Probably done by or for Delaunay. See JCA's English draft at 16/14/3; transcript of same at 36/19/2. Letter or extract of letter collected for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/16/3
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6 May 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of CD's complete formula for the secular acceleration of the moon. Comparison of formula with Plana's mistakes.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/16/3
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26 Jan. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Translation into French of JCA's original. Probably done by or for Delaunay. See JCA's English draft at 16/15/1; transcript of same at 36/19/3. Letter or extract of letter collected for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/17/1
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9 Apr. 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See 36/18/1 for French translation. Acknowledgement of copies of CD's replies to LeVerrier's attacks on his theory of the moon. Nature of LeVerrier, Hansen's and Plana's errors. M. de Pontecoulant's letter in Monthly Notices of RAS. See 16/17/2 for another version of this letter.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/17/1
Item
8 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Translation into French of JCA's original. Probably done by or for Delaunay. See JCA's English draft at 16/15/2; transcript of same at 36/20/1. Letter or extract of letter collected for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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