Item 6 - Letter from Eric Harold Neville to W. W. Rouse Ball

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O./6.6/6

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Letter from Eric Harold Neville to W. W. Rouse Ball

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  • 4 Oct. 1923 (Creation)

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Ball, Walter William Rouse (1850-1925), historian of mathematics
(1850-1925)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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166 Castle Hill, Reading. - Thanks Rouse Ball for the Cayley MSS; has presented one of them to the College Library but is keeping the others for himself. Describes the new library building at Reading, and the difficulty in building up a collection of mathematical books. Postscript asking if there are any spare signatures of Cayley which could be preserved with the MS; 'I fear I am a shameless beggar'.

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