St John‘s College Personal Collections

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/21/2
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9 Apr. 1860

See JCA's draft at 16/17/1-2; Delaunay's French translation at 36/18/1. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/22/1
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9 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See JCA's draft at 16/18/1; Delaunay's French translation at 36/18/3. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/22/3
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21 Mar. 1861

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See JCA's draft at 16/19/1. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/23/2
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9 Aug. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See JCA's draft at 16/19/4. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to C. Delaunay

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/24/1
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23 Mar. 1867

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See JCA's draft at 16/21/1. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to W. De La Rue

Adams/Box 16/13/5
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13 Feb. 1866

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Comments on De La Rue's speech on awarding Gold Medal of RAS to JCA. Whether a quotation from Herschel should be included. Whether LeVerrier should be mentioned in light of his and Delaunay's part in the controversy over the secular variation of the moon's mean motion. Accuracy of Hansen's and Plana's theories. Encloses copy of Delaunay's letter.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/14/1
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24 Mar. 1857

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Another draft for same letter at 16/14/2. See 36/16/1 for French translation, of same letter. Acknowledgement of offer of corresponding membership of [French] Academy of Sciences. Sends offprints of published papers. Description of work forthcoming. Defence of work on lunar theory against Plana.

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

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/17/3
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6 June 1860

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See 36/18/2 for French translation. Sends copies of reply to Pontecoulant, Plana etc: one for CD personally, one for the French Academy of Sciences.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Draft? autograph letter signed to Charles Delaunay

Adams/Box 16/19/1
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21 Mar. 1861

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of copies sent by CD of investigation into Hansen's long inequalities and corrections of LeVerrier's Annales, and CD's volume on the Theory of the Moon. Praise of CD's method.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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