File 779 - Letters of William Woolsey Johnson and his wife Susannah Johnson

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Letters of William Woolsey Johnson and his wife Susannah Johnson

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  • 1869-1894 (Creation)

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Johnson, William Woolsey (1841-1927), mathematician

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Gift of the Manuscript Society, 12 Sept. 2025.

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Nine letters and one note to Johnson from J. W. L. Glaisher (1884-1894) and one from from Edward Tomkins (1869), with four letters to Johnson's wife Susannah from 'Wiley,' probably a close relative, and one from her mother Sarah Leverett Batcheller, both written while the Johnsons were in Cambridge, 1886-1887.

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