Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS c/1/82
Title
Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield
Date(s)
- 4 June 1856 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
3 pp.
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Bequeathed by Henrietta Litchfield (née Darwin) to Margaret Keynes.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Gift of Margaret Keynes, April 1952.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Trinity. Discusses plans to visit London; is looking through papers for some things not to be burnt, notes some are soft and good for packing; will take the Northwestern route to the north, notes that “the transition state from a man into a Don must come… read more
Allied materials area
Publication note
Published in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1990, vol. III, no. 100B.
Notes area
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 "6" in red ink on front, with editorial marks throughout.