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Letter from Edmond Halley to Henry Oldenburg, c July 1676 (Received on 10 July)

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9597/13/5/111-114

Scope and Contents

"This letter is made up, as it is now printed, from two copies; the one written on four sides of foolscap complete [ff.111-112], and the other, containing the last two pages enlarged, by additional matter, into three [ff.113-114 - by "pages", Rigaud means sides]. This last is a part of what was actually sent to Oldenburg: it has on the back of it a memorandum in his handwriting, "Rec. July 10, 76;" and the identical two first pages, which are wanting in Lord Macclesfield's collection, are preserved in one of the guard books belonging to the Royal Society. Their substance, with some subordinate and unimportant variations, answers to [ff.111-112]." Rigaud.

Dates

  • Creation: c July 1676 (Received on 10 July)

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Due to the fragile nature of the material access to the collection is restricted. It is available to view in the Cambridge University Digital Library at https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/macclesfield/1

Extent

9 folio(s) (ff.9 [folio] paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Existence and Location of Copies

Add.9597/13/5/111,r.tif Add.9597/13/5/111,v.tif Add.9597/13/5/112,r.tif Add.9597/13/5/112,v.tif Add.9597/13/5/113,r.tif Add.9597/13/5/113,v.tif Add.9597/13/5/114,r.tif Add.9597/13/5/114,v.tif

Bibliography

Rigaud, vol.I, pp.226-236, no.83.

Repository Details

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