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The second notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter X is continued from Add.Ms.b.101, and Chapter XVIII is continued in Add.Ms.b.103. Includes two letters from G. N. Watson to B. M Wilson, 28 June 1929 and 1 October 1930 (between ff. 32 and 33).

University, Birmingham. - Thanks Rouse Ball for the Cayley MSS, which he is very glad to have. Has a copy of Waring's Meditationes Analyticae (1776) once in the possession of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff; the title page of this edition states that Waring was at Trinity, but Watson can find no suggestion that either Waring or the Lucasian chair had any connection with the college; asks if this is a misprint.

The list gives the name of each recipient, and a brief note of what they were sent of Cayley's papers by Rouse Ball. The copies of letters sent to recipients are in most case form letters, explaining that on the death of Cayley's widow his papers were put into Rouse Ball's hands with a request that he should destroy or dispose of them as he saw fit; 'all involving matter which might be published was dealt with years ago, and what was preserved has no interest beyond the fact that it is a specimen of his work'. Longer letters were sent to G. T. Bennett, also asking whether he would like to see the models of Archimedean and other solids made by W. W. Taylor, and to D. E. Smith, also taking the opportunity to send a paper on Euler which might be of interest to the American Mathematical Monthly. A long second letter to E. H. Neville gives details of the nature of Cayley's papers, and the principles by which Rouse Ball decided what should be destroyed: 'As for letters to him, of which many hundreds were put in my hands, I laid down the rule that in general such letters should be destroyed or sent back to the writers if they were alive'; lists the few exceptions; the letter also suggests that Neville take a look at Monge's Card-Shuffling Problem.

Correspondence 1933, on a problem of Davenport, includes ms. notes for a solution by Watson.

Correspondence 1945 is re Davenport's draft obituary of W.E.H. Berwick (Bibliog. 65) and includes ms. suggestions and additions by Watson.

Letters from Robert W Ditchburn and George A. Weekes are in 66; those from Maud Venables Vernon and Roland Venables Vernon are in 67.