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Cote
Add. MS c/1/79
Titre
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Date(s)
- [Dec.?] 1854 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
4 pp.
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Nom du producteur
(1832-1903)
Notice biographique
Histoire archivistique
Bequeathed by Henrietta Litchfield (née Darwin) to Margaret Keynes.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Gift of Margaret Keynes, April 1952.
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Portée et contenu
Penicuik. Writes after leaving Cheltenham, describes leisure activities at Peniciuk: dog racing, walks, and snowball fights.
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Publication note
Not published in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1990 or extracted in Lewis Campbell and William Garnett's The Life of James Clerk Maxwell London: Macmillan and Co., 1882.
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 "No. 3" in red ink on front, with editorial marks throughout.