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Smyth, William Henry (1788–1865), naval officer and surveyor
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Letter from John William Lubbock
Add. MS a/208/84 · Item · 28 Feb. 1832
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St. James's Place - JWL forwarded WW's 'excellent report' to Capt. Smyth [William H. Smyth]. Could WW find out whether the Syndics of the university press would publish a short work on the determination of the orbit of a comet ['On the Determination of the Distance of a Comet from the Earth, and the Elements of its Orbit', 1832]. WW has no doubt seen 'a little mistake in the expression for the time in the parabola in your dynamics' ['An Introduction to Dynamics Containing the Laws of Motion and the First Three Sections of the Principia', 1832].
Letter from George Airy
Letter from George Airy
Add. MS a/200/59 · Item · 23 Apr. 1845
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Royal Observatory Greenwich - GA has been ill with a fever as have, it seems, most people in his neighbourhood. He encloses a copy of the Royal Astronomical Society's yearly report, and wants him to read his speech on delivering a medal to Captain Smyth [William Smyth]: 'You will perceive that it was made under rather delicate circumstances'.
Collection of letters of William Whewell to William Henry Smyth, William Hodge Mill, Richard Chenevix Trench, Benjamin Webb, and Lady Lubbock
Add. MS a/367 · File · 1834-1864
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Letter to William Henry Smyth dated 16 Feb. 1834 asks for barometrical observations on behalf of Professor [Miller?] of Cambridge, is looking for the mean height of the barometer in different latitudes; Mr and Mrs Airy have fever and [Adam] Sedgwick has dislocated his arm; is building lecture rooms with a ventilator which would enable Mrs Smyth and her friends to listen to lectures. This letter accompanied by two notes in an unidentified hand.
A letter to R. C. Trench is dated 2 Mar. 1852 and asks questions arising upon reading his Study of Words.
There are two letters to William Hodge Mill, dated 1842 and 1844. In the earlier letter he asks Mill to serve as examiner for the Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship, and asks his opinion of the effect of the Corn law on the value of tithe rent charges. The later letter sends a passage he has read in the Life of Hegel which he thinks will amuse him.
The letter to Benjamin Webb is dated 18 Dec. 1857 and refers to Webb's offer of a collection of MSS related to William Hodge Mill, and states that the seniority has approved the sum of £50 for the MSS.
The letter to Lady Lubbock is dated 8 Mar. 1864 and accepts an invitation to visit High Elms; is expecting a visit from Amelia and Maria Herschel with their brother Willie.
Accompanied by a modern transcript of a letter from Whewell to B. H. Smart dated 8 May 1969 [1849?] thanking him for a copy of his Manual of Logic.

 Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science