Plans to write R.A.S. an account of English discovery of new planet (Neptune). Requests permission to publish J.C.A.'s correspondence to him. Addressed to "Rev.W.J. Adams".

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

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 9/15/2
Item
25 Oct. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

J.C.A. and Leverrier. [New planet] J.H. letter to Guardian.

Herschel, Sir John Frederick William (1792-1871) Knight, astronomer

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 11/44/1
Item
3 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Congratulations on discovery of Neptune. Suggests names.

O'Reilly, James (fl 1838-1902)

Copy of letter to Fenton Hort

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/33/1
Item
12 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Neptune. Account of JCA's account to the Camb. Phil. Soc., Nov. 1846. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography.

Hort, Fenton John Anthony (1828-1892) biblical scholar and theologian

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/4/1
Item
13 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "Account of some circumstances historically connected with the discovery of the planet exterior to Uranus", from the Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 16 p.385. [Neptune]

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

Typescript copy of article

Adams/Box 40/3/1
Item
13 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Typescript copy, made for MacAlister's biography of Adams, of article "An account of observations undertaken in search of the planet discovered at Berlin on Sept. 23, 1846", from the Memoirs of the RAS, Vol. 16 p.415. [Neptune]

Challis, James (1803-1882) astronomer and physicist

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 6/29/1
Item
14 Nov. 1846

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

The discovery of Neptune.

Cox, Homersham (1821-1897)

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