St John‘s College Personal Collections

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.1-2
Item
12 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

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

Hind, John Russell (1823-1895) astronomer

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.2-3
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.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.3
Item
19 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 33/9/fol.51
Item
23 Nov. 1846

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

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 34/15/fol.4
Item
23 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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 14/30/1
Item
17 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Has sent copies of the Nautical Almanac 1847 - 1850, via Challis, as a gift in admiration of JCA's discovery of Neptune. Has consulted with Sheepshanks: JCA's paper on the discovery is to printed immediately and issued as an appendix to the Nautical Almanac. In the interests of speed requests JCA to come to London to read the proofs. Copyright arrangements.

Stratford, William Samuel (? 1791-1853) naval officer and astronomer

Copy of letter to Richard Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/3/1
Item
17 Dec. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Printing of paper on the perturbations of Uranus in the Nautical Almanac. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Copy of letter to R. Sheepshanks

Adams/Box 33/11/fol.4-5
Item
17 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.

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

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