St John‘s College Personal Collections

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

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)

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

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 John Couch Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 8/1/1
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18 Sep. 1868

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Work of C.O. during J.C.A's absence. Meteors, Comet II 1861, Mrs Pemberton, the telescope, Anamometer.

Graham, Andrew (1815-1908) astronomer

Typed copy of letter to Edward Sabine

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/1/1
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3 June 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

See JCA's draft at 24/48/3. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Diary

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 25/1/1
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17 Feb. 1837-14 June 1837

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to J.F.W. Herschel

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/1/1
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2 Feb. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Personal. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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

Copy of letter to his parents

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 35/1/1
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20 Jan. 1843

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Original at 16/2/1. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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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