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Trinity College | Cambridge
March 22d {1} | '73

Dear Professor Humphry,

Let me thank you for the honour which you have done to my office in proposing to me to be a member of the Committee for preparing a memorial to Professor Sedgwick {2}. I shall be happy to render any assistance in my power to carrying out the object proposed.

Yrs vy truly {3}
B F Westcott

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{1} The second figure is indistinct.

{2} Adam Sedgwick had died on 27 January.

{3} This line is indistinct.

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Farringford, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
April 4th 1873

Sir,

I beg to enclose a cheque for 10£ if I may be allowed to offer this small contribution to the Sedgwick Memorial.

I have the honour to be
Your very obedient servant
A Tennyson

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Grove Lodge | Cambridge
7 Oct. 1896

Dear Sir,

I wish to thank you very sincerely for your kind and welcome letter of sympathy {1}.

I hope you are having fair health and enjoying your leisure.

Yours faithfully
A. P. Humphrey

Mr H. Coggin

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Black-edged paper.

{1} The writer's father, Sir G. M. Humphry, had died at his home, Grove Lodge, on 24 September.

Regarding the eclipse of the sun observed in Gdansk on the morning of Thursday 11 Jun. 1676 by Hevelius.

Signed 'Samuel Blithe'.

Re Milton MSS in Trinity Library.

Advising that the letters from Bertrand Russell to Lucy Silcox in Miss Blackburn's possession would be best given to the library of Trinity College rather than that of Newnham.

The sheet labelled '11A' has the annotations 'Hook's Musick Scripts', '101', and 'NP'.

Endorsed 'Dr Hooks Proposals to the K[ing] for his watches with 2 Balances finding Longitude' (A-N) and 'first Proposals abt the Longitude' (P-T).

Endorsed with date and note, 'Of Æquation of Times & Tables of it in divers'.

Not in Hooke's hand. Endorsements on single sheet: 'XVI' and 'Philosophicall Scribbles'.

In Hertz's own hand. 'III' written in blue crayon on front original flyleaf. Hertz's address given in the margin of the first page of the paper: 'Prof. Dr. Hertz, Wadstr. 33, Karlsruhe'. Several annotations and corrections throughout the text of the paper, including to the title. First subtitle crossed out, another below in brackets: 'Aus den Sitzungsberichten der Berliner Akadamie vom 2 Feb. 1888, mit einigen Zusätzen' [as appeared in the paper's second publication in Annalen der Physik und Chemie vol. 34].

About attending Porson's funeral.