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- 7 Feb. 1858 (Production)
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4 pp.
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Bequeathed by Henrietta Litchfield (née Darwin) to Margaret Keynes.
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Gift of Margaret Keynes, April 1952.
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129 Union Street, Aberdeen. Describes his work in Aberdeen, has found better textbooks by Galbraith & Haughton; has got up a model to show the motions of the rings of satellites; shares what he has been reading; comments on the Senior Wranglers and Smith’s prize men, has a student that he hopes will stay out of a small college “where boating billiards beer &c are more immediate paths to distinction that the pursuit of wisdom either mathematical, classical or social.”
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Published in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1990, vol. I, No. 144.
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Part of a collection of fifteen letters from Clerk Maxwell to Litchfield dating from 1853 to 1858 (Add. MS c.1/78-91).
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Letter marked "15" in red ink on front, with editorial marks throughout.