Unidad documental simple 82 - Letter from J. Clerk Maxwell to R. B. Litchfield

3 pp.

Bequeathed by Henrietta Litchfield (née Darwin) to Margaret Keynes.

Gift of Margaret Keynes, April 1952.

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 at last and it must be painful.”

Published in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1990, vol. III, no. 100B.

Part of a collection of fifteen letters from Clerk Maxwell to Litchfield dating from 1853 to 1858 (Add. MS c.1/78-91).

Letter marked "6" in red ink on front, with editorial marks throughout.