The additional manuscript series are artificial groups containing manuscripts from various sources. Most of the contents are single items or small groups, but they include some fairly large personal archives, either arranged in sequence or scattered in various places. See the overview of the collections (https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/overview).
Sin títuloThe Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House W.1. Concerns the proposal that an exchange be effected: seals in the College's possession which should be placed in the British Museum in exchange for an 18th century quadrant previously in the College's possession bought by Sir Hercules Read.
Letter from O. M. Dalton to [Henry] Mayhew [both of the British Museum]; letter from Mayhew to Canon Musgrave (with envelope); three letters from Canon Musgrave to the Master of Trinity [Henry Montagu Butler]; letter from Butler to the Librarian [Robert Sinker].
R. N. Office, 22 Silver Street, Cambridge. Thanks them for their kindness and hospitality and for making him an honorary member of the High Table.
Offering a photograph of a Greek manuscript of the Athanasian Creed in St Mark's Library, Venice to the College, with explanation of its source; copy of a letter by Rawdon Brown on 'the remaining seven photographs'.
Relating to the gift of a portrait of Bishop Hacket to Trinity College Cambridge.
Two letters to the Master, both 12 Feb. 1861 in which he requests permission to consult the Capell collection of Shakespeariana at the library; envelope recording those who have seen the letters, with dates from 15-18 Feb.; two copies of a letter to the Master and Fellows dated 11 May 1861 asking them to reconsider their refusal of permission.
Offering his collected works to the College.
Sends a list of engraved gems found in ancient tombs at different places in Cyprus and now in the Cesnola collection of the New York Museum of Art.
A document dated 28 Aug. 1849 and sent on to Trinity dated 10 June 1850 lists five items donated to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College by Thomas Kidd, and encloses the original grant of the office of Master to Richard Bentley, with the letter from Thomas Thorpe to Kidd dated 8 Feb. 1830 by which he presented it to Thorpe. Some of the books donated carried annotations by Richard Porson.
Down Farnborough, Kent. Discusses the difference between two genuses of barnacle, Chthamalus and Balanus and mentions specimens sent, and encloses a drawing of the two; has been going through Thompson's collection and finds it admirable. Comments on Thompson's book, does not like the separation of English and Latin text. Recommends a book by E. S. Dixon on poultry as it is very good and amusing. Is headed to Malvern to try a water cure.
Trinity College. Encloses his Latin inscriptions for Prior and Sedley Taylor, noting his use of the nominative case as Sedley Taylor is not declinable and the debate over the declinability of Prior would "excite acrimonious controversy."
Royal Observatory Greenwich SE. Does not have time to sit for a photograph.
Thrumpton Hall, Derby. He has read the article, and states that the separation of Lord and Lady Byron had nothing to do with Lord Lovelace's allegations. "As far as Lady Byron is concerned I do not think there is any reason why the poet should not have a bust in the Abbey."
Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum. Clarifies that the electrotype of which the library sent him a rubbing is not a coin of Offa, but a silver penny of Aethilheard, Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of Offa.
Regarding memorials to A. J. Butler and his work on the Gioliti Press.
Accompanying a medal in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.
The first notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter X is continued in Add.Ms.b.102.
Sin títuloThe second notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter X is continued from Add.Ms.b.101, and Chapter XVIII is continued in Add.Ms.b.103. Includes two letters from G. N. Watson to B. M Wilson, 28 June 1929 and 1 October 1930 (between ff. 32 and 33).
Sin títuloThe third notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter XVIII is continued from Add.Ms.b.102, and Chapter XXI is continued in Add.Ms.b.104.
Sin títuloThe fourth notebook of four into which Ramanujan's Notebook 2 was copied by an unidentified person, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.101-104. Chapter XXI is continued from Add.Ms.b.103. Contents: ff 1-5 Chapter XXI (cont'd); ff 6-12 Calculations 'Copied from the Loose Papers': miscellaneous (ff 6-12), proof for Bertrand's Postulate (ff 13-16), reciprocal functions (ff 16-25), approximate summations of series involving prime numbers (ff 25-44), 'Middle of a paper?' on moduli (ff 45-55), 'The Three Quarterly Reports f the late S. Ramanujan, to the Board of Studies in Mathematics, when he was a Research Scholarship-holder', 5 August and 7 November 1913 and 9 March 1914 (ff 64-118).
Sin títuloThe first notebook of four into which G. N. Wilson copied chapters XII-XXI of Ramanujan's Notebook 2, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.105-107A .Envelope carries notes by B. M. Wilson.
Sin títuloThe second notebook of four into which G. N. Wilson copied chapters XII-XXI of Ramanujan's Notebook 2, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.105-107A. Envelope carries notes by B. M. Wilson.
Sin títuloThe third notebook of four into which G. N. Wilson copied chapters XII-XXI of Ramanujan's Notebook 2, catalogued as Add.Ms.b.105-107A. Envelope carries notes by B. M. Wilson.
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