DAVT/D/170-182
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1967
Part of Papers of Harold Davenport
The book 'contains an extremely readable account of the analytic approach to the theory of the distribution of primes in arithmetic progressions' (Memoir, p.167). Davenport submitted a revised ms. in 1969 but the second edition (revised by H.L. Montgomery) did not appear until 1980.
170-174: 238pp. ms. draft with corrections. 170 includes covering note from publisher, August 1967, returning `dead' material (now at D.170-D.177).
175: 4pp. typescript index with ms. corrections.
176-177: Corrected proofs.
178-182: Photocopy of original ms. draft, with ms. corrections for revised version. Includes letter from Davenport, 4 April 1969, to Yu. V. Linnik re corrections, also mentioning that he was in hospital.