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Letter from John Herschel
Letter from John Herschel
Add. MS a/207/107 · Item · 23 Dec. 1862
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

Collingwood - JH will be sending WW 'a modified copy of the Maclear [Thomas Maclear] memorial', all he has to do is sign it and return it to JH. C. P. Smyth [Charles Piazzi Smyth] has informed JH that there 'is a provision (by superannuation fund deduction) for his retirement' which means JH has to cancel what has already been done.
Letter from Augustus De Morgan
Add. MS a/202/107 · Item · 26 Oct. 1846
Part of Additional Manuscripts a

7 Camden Street, Camden Town - He has been meaning to respond to the last point of Whewell's letter on enunciation, but he has been looking through the proofs of an account of Newton by David Brewster. He describes how his check of the references has shown a story to be false: the story about Newton being offended by being represented as an Arian by Whiston that he blocked the latter's entry to the Royal Society. De Morgan discusses his definition of enunciation at length.
Letter from Arthur Sidgwick to Nora Sidgwick
Add. MS c/103/107 · Item · 17 Jan 1907
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Reports that Ryland Adkins has been staying in Oxford for a political dinner, and mentioned that he had been reading Henry Sidgwick: A Memoir 'with the greatest possible interest', and that an aunt of his had also been reading it 'with the keenest interest within quite a few days of her death.'

 Sidgwick, Arthur (1840–1920), educationist and classical scholar