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Chelsea. - Originally enclosing a letter from Squire, describing the burning of the 'Cromwell letters'; comparatively little use now for FitzGerald to call on Squire, but Carlyle still wishes he would. Dawson Turner has already tried to see Squire's material, but without success.

The draft concerning Paley's Moral Philosophy carries revisions in Whewell's hand. This is accompanied by a broadsheet advertising a course of astronomical lectures by the Plumian Professor [James Challis] dated 20 Mar. 1846; a satirical election broadsheet; a leaflet about the Masons signed in print by Granville Penn at Stoke Park, Bucks. Jan. 1 1840; a facsimile of a printed copy of Friedrich Schiller's letter dated 6 Nov. 1782; a leaflet from the Académie Royale regarding a commemorative medal in honour of M. Quetelet; Dawson Turner's booklet Emblems of Saints (Jan. 1844); three printed Moral Philosophy examination questions; printed material relating to meetings of various learned societies, and other material.

Two typescript lists with summaries of the letters.

MS copies of the correspondence of Newton and Roger Cotes and others, gathered in preparation for Edleston's Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes, including Letters of Other Prominent Men (London, 1850). This group of copies does not include all of the letters printed, but does include some materials gathered for the notes to the life of Newton at the front of the volume. There are a letter from Dawson Turner dated 24 Mar. 1848 forwarding a transcription of a letter from Bentley (not present) and referring to other letters in his collection, and three printed figures, two of which were printed in the volume.

Chelsea. - 'Thanks for your Copy of the [Cromwell?] Letter. It was, as you surmised, one of Dawson Turner’s; but this is more of a facsimile- worth having too..'

List of 'a collection of posters and other ephemeral literature largely relating to Great Yarmouth, collected and in some cased annotated by Dawson Turner', offered for sale by Robin Waterfield Ltd, Oxford. With the transcript of a letter to J. Sainsbury 1 Dec. 1836, also offered for sale by the same bookseller. Accompanied by the letter offering the collection and letter for sale, 29 June 1979. Accompanied by a carbon typescript of the Librarian's reply.

Thanks Whewell for his present. 'I am persuaded that you will be gratified to hear - that your volumes have been my constant companions'. Turner grew up on such compositions: 'The whole of the contents of your smaller volume are, with very few exceptions indeed, familiar to me in the original, and sufficiently so to enable me to appreciate the fidelity of the versions. Here too the notes give quite additional value ['Verse Translations from the German, including Lenore, Schiller's Song of the Bell', 1847]. In the larger volume I am less at home; its principal piece, Goethe's Herman and Dorothea, I never read before' [Whewell, 'Goethe's Herman and Dorothea', Fraser's Magazine, 1850].

Turner is sorry they could not meet when Whewell was in Norwich. If Whewell needs any help in writing the history of botany, he would be very willing to help.

Thanks Whewell for his pamphlet on the Newton and Flamsteed controversy ['Newton and Flamsteed: Remarks on an Article in Number 109 of the Quarterly Review', 1836]: 'I am not sure that I do not wish that you had rather been content to let the whole matter rest, and not combat a review, which is in reality very much like combatting the air, and where our opponent must always be on unfair terms, inasmuch as the poison, if such be, will penetrate in numberless directions when the antidote cannot follow it. The fact appears to be, that Newton, great as he was, was not exempt from the common set of humanity; that Mr Baily's [Francis Baily] publication necessarily brought forth the weakness of his character in a strong light'.