Item 9 - Two Christmas cards to A. E. Ingham

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Add. MS a/292/9

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Two Christmas cards to A. E. Ingham

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  • 1923-1924 (Creation)

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2 postcards, each with Christmas greetings designed by W. W. Rouse Ball.

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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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Given to Trinity College by Michael Ingham, son of A. E. Ingham, 18 Apr. 1983.

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Card for Christmas 1923 shows a five-pointed star bearing the words 'From W. W. Rouse Ball | Happy Days | Good Wishes | Remembrances | Kind Thoughts'; sent to Ingham at Trinity and forwarded on to 59 St Peter's Rd, Leicester. Card for Christmas 1924 shows a tree with stars and other symbols among the leaves and a banner across the trunk reading 'With all Good Wishes From W. W. Rouse Ball, Elmside, Cambridge'; sent to Ingham at Trinity.

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