St John‘s College Personal Collections

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.4-6
Item
17 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.6-9
Item
18 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.9
Item
4 Jan. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

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

Letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/16/1
Item
22 May 1861

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Circular letter to members of Board of Visitors of R.G.O. offering to show observatory equipment to them.

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/16/1fol.13-15
Item
14 Feb. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/16/2
Item
16 Jan. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

£2000 from Sheepshanks benefaction available for use of Observatory. What would J.C.A. wish to see it spent on.

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 2/16/3
Item
3 Nov. 1862

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Reasons he cannot return the pivots of the Cambridge Transit. Suggests method of turning instrument without them.

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/16/fol.15-17
Item
17 Feb. 1847

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/16/fol.21
Item
2 Nov. 1848

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

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

Copy of letter to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 33/16/fol.38
Item
25 Jan. 1847

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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