Item 33 - Copy correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton

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Add. MS b/33

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Copy correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton

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  • 19th cent ? (Creation)

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1 bundle: loose copy letters, one printed figure pasted in.

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Edleston, Joseph (1816-1895) Fellow and Bursar of Trinity College Cambridge
(1816-1895)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Gift from Miss Edleston, daughter of Joseph Edleston, author of The Correspondence of Newton and Cotes (1850). Predominantly by Newton, but several letters to Newton by Cotes and others included.

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MS copies, with annotations giving sources,references to persons and places etc; reckoning of receipt and reply dates.

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