Item 5-15 - Adams Prize Essay for 1939-40

D.5: Early ms. drafts of various chapters of the essay, found together in an unlabelled folder: 2 ms. drafts, 3pp. and 5pp. for 'Chapter VI On a conjecture of Mordell', and 9pp. ms. draft and calculations for 'Chapter VII Minkowski's conjecture and Remak's theorem'.
D.6: Early ms. drafts of various chapters of the essay, found together in an unlabelled folder: 9pp. ms. draft headed 'W.P.', and
2pp. ms. draft for 'Chapter VI On sums of pos. & neg. 4th powers'.
D.7: 1p. ms. 'Contents of Essay'; 3pp. typescript abstract dated 31 December 1940.
D.8-11: Ms., typescript and printed text of the essay: 'Part One. On the Geometry of Numbers' Introduction, Chapters I-VII, in 4 folders. As the material for many chapters had already been published, much of the essay was presented in the form of pages from the printed texts pasted onto file paper. Originally found in two ring-binders, the material has been divided into folders for ease of reference.
D.12-14: Ms., typescript and printed text of the essay: 'Part Two. On Waring's problem'. Introduction, Chapters I-VII, in 3 folders. As the material for many chapters had already been published, much of the essay was presented in the form of pages from the printed texts pasted onto file paper. Originally found in two ring-binders, the material has been divided into folders for ease of reference.
D.15: Brief correspondence re Adams Prize Essay. Includes letter of 29 May 1941 informing Davenport of award.

See also: A.51, Letter of congratulation on award of Adams Prize of University of Cambridge