Item 45 - Letter from K. A. Esdaile to W. Rouse Ball

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Add. MS a/278/45

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Letter from K. A. Esdaile to W. Rouse Ball

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  • 17 Mar. 1925 (Creation)

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Gift of Maurice G. Tozer, Aug. 1982; found in Ball's copy of Esdailes Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College, purchased by Tozer from Cambridge Borough Library in a 'surplus books' sale some time between 1920 and 1967.

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Leams End, West Hoathly, Sussex. - Written is response to Rouse Ball's review of Esdaile's Roubiliac's Work At Trinity College Cambridge (1824) in the Trinity Magazine of Mar. 1925. Discusses whether the Nathaniel Smith who is said to have given the death mask of Isaac Newton to Trinity can be identified with the Nathaniel Smith who was an apprentice of Roubiliac.

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      Esdaile, Katharine Ada, Roubiliac's Work at Trinity College, Cambridge. (Cambridge University Press, 1924)
      Ball, Walter William Rouse, 'Roubiliac's Work', Trinity Magazine Vol. VI, No. 2 (March 1925).

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