St John‘s College Personal Collections

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 34/10/fol.117
Item
16 Apr. 1859

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Lunar acceleration. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Mrs Airy

Adams/Box 33/10/fol.56-60
Item
6 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873) geologist

Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

Adams/Box 33/10/fol.61-63
Item
9 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873) geologist

Copy of letter to G.F. Chambers

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 36/11/1
Item
8 May 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Answer to enquiry: planetary motion, Neptune and Uranus. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography. Possible that this particular item is JCA's own file copy.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

Adams/Box 24-26/Box 26/11/1
Item
13 Feb. 1892

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Does not state to whom addressed. Asking the recipient to be Secretary of the Adams Memorial Committee with Dr. Porter: probably therefore MacAlister.

Taylor, Charles (1840-1908) Hebrew scholar and Master of St John's College, Cambridge

Diary entries 1880

Adams/Box 39/11/1
Item
9 Feb. 1880-12 Apr. 1880

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Transcript made for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Autograph letter signed to Donald MacAlister

Adams/Box 29/11/1
Item
1892-1919 (Undated.)

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

DM's biography of JCA. Personal.

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

Copy of letter to U.J.J. Le Verrier

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 37/11/1
Item
20 Nov. 1852

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Right ascensions of the fundamentals of stars. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/11/1
Item
30 Mar. 1852

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Printing of address to the RAS. Printing of Catton's observations. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to Eliza Adams

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 35/11/1
Item
23 Aug. 1873

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Description of visit to meeting of Astronomische Gesellschaft in Hamburg. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for quotation in MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

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