Item 4 - Paper on magic read to the scientific section of the International Congress of Historians

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O./6.5/4

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Paper on magic read to the scientific section of the International Congress of Historians

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  • [1912] (Creation)

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Typescript with MS annotations: cover sheet; ff. 1-44 (including 1a and 1b, 21a and 21b), 3 unnumbered sheets, all fastened together with butterfly clip. With envelope.
Typescript with MS annotations: 2 cover sheets; ff. 1-40 (including unnumbered f. between ff. 25 and 26), with printed material on back; all fastened together with butterfly clip.

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Ball, Walter William Rouse (1850-1925), historian of mathematics
(1850-1925)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Two versions. First in envelope, labelled 'Magic. Paper read to the scientific section of the International Congress of Historians. 1912. April', though the Congress in fact took place in London in 1913. Second version labelled 'Magic. Alternative & fuller paper'. Typed on back of copies of printed list of members, 1st Trinity Boat Club, 1910 (Rouse Ball was the Hon. Treasurer).

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