Zone d'identification
Cote
Add. MS c/1/89
Titre
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Date(s)
- 7 Feb. 1858 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
4 pp.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
Bequeathed by Henrietta Litchfield (née Darwin) to Margaret Keynes.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Gift of Margaret Keynes, April 1952.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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… read more
Zone des sources complémentaires
Publication note
Published in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1990, vol. I, No. 144.
Zone des notes
Note
Part of a collection of fifteen letters from Clerk Maxwell to Litchfield dating from 1853 to 1858 (Add. MS c.1/78-91).
Note
Letter marked "15" in red ink on front, with editorial marks throughout.