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Add. MS a/667 · Item · 3 Oct. 1949
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

614 Ohio St., Vallejo, Calif.; addressed to 'Sir George Trevelyan' as Master of Trinity College. - Is sending Trevelyan a copy of his Wave-Theory Book IX, Part I. 'As you are Master of Newton's College, that alone would make this book of deep interest to you: but there is another reason - namely Newton's Letters to Bentley, 1692, which deal with Cosmogony since the time of Plato...' The book will have 'an appeal to the Historian of Modern Nations'. The cover page 'appeals to Master of Trinity, like Dr Whewell, and therefore is worthy of your careful study'. Asks to hear from Trevelyan when he has read it.

See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson (1866-1962), astronomer
O./11a.2/48 · Item · 13 Aug. 1953
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O

Regarding the instalment of the new clock in Bentley's time as Master, and John Harrison's association with Trinity. With card from Adrian to H. M. Adams, the Librarian, passing on the letter and mentioning an attempt to find references to Harrison in the collections.