St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 3/1/1
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29 Nov. 1846

The New Planet [Neptune].

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 15/1/1
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3 Jan. 1870

Encloses printed paper "The effects of tides on planetary motion", and draws attention to DV's papers on satellites in Philosophical Magazine 1860 and 1861. See also paper on Saturn's rings at 44/7/1.

Vaughan, Daniel (1818-1879)

Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

Adams/Box 29/1/1
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3 May 1893

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

JCA Collected Papers/ DM's biography.

Adams, Eliza (1827-1919) wife of J.C. Adams

Autograph letter signed to Eliza Adams

Adams/Box 30-32/Box 31/1/1
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27 Dec. 1893

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Progress of medallion for Westminster Abbey, bust [for Mrs. A?]. Personal news.

Joy, Albert Bruce (1842-1924)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/1/1
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29 Jan. 1872

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Biblical texts proposed as subject for JCA to lecture on in preference to astronomy.

Hailes, John Davey (fl 1868-1872)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 11/1/1
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23 July 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Full and new moon, Jerusalem, March and April, AD.29, 30, 33. For publication. JCA's calculations for reply on back.

McClellan, John Brown (d 1916)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/1/1
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5 Nov. 1845

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Thanks for paper on perturbations of Uranus, left some days since. Query: do assumed perturbations explain error of radius vector of Uranus.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 6/1/1
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19 June 1865

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

The effect of the rotation of the axis of the earth on the seasons. Question asked by headmaster on behalf of schoolboy.

Calder, Frederic (d 1900)

Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/1/1
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23 Mar. 1892

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Arrangements for improvements to No. 4 Brookside. Progress of Sampson and Glaisher on the Collected papers.

Adams, Eliza (1827-1919) wife of J.C. Adams

Copies of article

Adams/Box 40/1/1-2
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1 Mar. 1892

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Two copies, one MS one typescript, made for MacAlister's biography of JCA, of extract from obituary in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 53 No.4 p.189-190.

Glaisher, James Whitbread Lee (1848-1928) mathematician

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