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Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677), mathematician and theologian
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Assignment from (A) Daniel Midwinter, Richard Ware, Charles Rivington, Aaron Ward, John Knapton, Paul Knapton, Thomas Longman, Richard Hett, Charles Hitch, Stephen Austen, John Wood, Charles Woodward, and John Pemberton to (B) Jacob Tonson III and Richard Tonson of a third share in the copyright of Isaac Barrow’s Works (3 vols.)
Crewe MS/21/f. 16 · Part · 5 May 1741
Part of Crewe Manuscripts

Consideration, £62. Witnessed by Oakley Gwynn and Jeremiah Prichard. Signed and sealed by A.
William Whewell: papers relating to Cambridge University government bills, Barrow's statue, moral philosophy, the Fitzwilliam controversy, the Lowndean chair and the Cambridge meeting of the British Association
Add. MS a/62 · File · 1836-73
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Six groups of material previously assigned letter classifications [by Isaac Todhunter?] as follows:
Items 1-36: "I" Papers &c. concerning Cambridge University Bills
Items 37-45: "II" Statue of Barrow in Trinity Chapel
Items 46-63: "III" Moral Philosophy
Items 64-88a: "IIIA" Fitzwilliam Controversy
Items 89-93: "IV" Lowndean Professorship
Items 94-143: "V" British Association, Cambridge

 Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
Draft of a letter to Isaac Barrow
Add. MS a/199/3 · Item · [1649]
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

An unsigned letter addressed to "Loving Cousen," two pages closely written, with several phrases crossed through and additions made both interlinearly and via an insertion symbol at the bottom. A note in a later hand appears at the top of the first page: "This was wrote to his nephew afterwards Dr Isaac Barrow M[aste]r of Trinity. See his life concerning the engagement."

The writer is a royalist and refers to a small allowance he gives to the recipient, and reacts strongly to the news that the recipient was been offered a fellowship by "Regi-cides", and mentions both Dr Hill and Dr Comber (the present and the ejected Masters of Trinity). The writer deplores the fact that he had heard of the fellowship after the fact and argues that "as themselves are counterfeit so are all their actions but personations, and perforce I cannot thinke you any more actually fellow than if you had taken to you a company of souldiers and by violence and force taken possession of what you now owne, neither can they claime their places by any other then a military title, as one of them was not ashamed to tell me." The writer urges Barrow to forsake the false title, and states that if Barrow thinks of applying himself to Dr Comber that he will endeavour to facilitate this through his connections.
Letter from Augustus De Morgan
Add. MS c/88/16 · Item · 18 Oct. 1860
Part of Additional Manuscripts c

41 Chalcot Villas, Adelaide Road NW - Has two points to make: 1: the drinking song is Ptolemaic ['this bottle's the sun of our table, how the bottle revolves round the table"] and recalls the Duke of Sussex singing it at a dinner party in 1826. 2: Barrow's method is pretty but does not show the full merit of Peter Metius' [Adriaan Anthonisz'] result. Explains why he thinks the phrasing of 1620 indicates that he did not publish and will give him the reference from his son Adrian Metius' book; will look further at Barrow: "I am not sure that Barrow is not reasoning in, as well as on, a circle".