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Letter from William Butler to Sir Harry Parker, 1785-10-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 26
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Three letters, a proposal and a subsequent petition to the Board.
Dates:
1785-10-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Butler to Sir Harry Parker, 1787-02-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 27-28
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Three letters, a proposal and a subsequent petition to the Board.
Dates:
1787-02-15
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Chapman to George Gilpin, 1800-03-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 36-36a
Scope and Contents
Concerning his book of observations.
Dates:
1800-03-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Chevasse to Captain Thomas Hurd, 1813-05-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/36: 48
Scope and Contents
Enclosing the paper at [RGO 14/36: 49-51].
Dates:
1813-05-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
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Papers of the Board of Longitude
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Correspondence regarding methods of establishing longitude by Jupiter's satellites, the planets and fixed stars
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William Chevasse on marine chair for the observation of Jupiter's satellites
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Letter from William Coldwell to Captain Thomas Hurd, 1815-02-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/55: 38
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-file:
With an index of names.
Dates:
1815-02-27
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Coombe to the Board of Longitude, 1783 - 1784
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/23: 221-222
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Two letters.
Dates:
1783 - 1784
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Coombe to the Board of Longitude, 1799-12-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/23: 223-224
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Two letters.
Dates:
1799-12-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cooper on his water perambulator for finding longitude, 1788-07-14
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/44: 76-78
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The first part of collection is comprised of papers concerning the internal affairs of the Board of Longitude, including the granting of awards, accounts, minutes, committee papers, petitions and memorials, the loan of instruments, publications and the payment of staff. These are followed by a wide range of papers relating to the Board's work, concerning clocks, chronometers and other instruments; longitude and latitude; magnetic variation; schemes and inventions; tables; pendulum...
Dates:
1788-07-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cooper to the Board of Longitude, 1788-07-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/40: 519-20
Scope and Contents
Concerning his method of determining longitude by observing a class of flower which opens and shuts consistently at a particular time of day.
Dates:
1788-07-27
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to Andrew Aiken, 1819-06-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 55-59
Scope and Contents
From the Item:
Eight letters from Cragg concerning his proposal for finding longitude by a ship's reckoning using a compass and charts, without the assistance of celestial lights or books of calculation. Includes charts for sailing [RGO 14/39: 53] and [RGO 14/39: 68v].
Dates:
1819-06-16
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to Andrew Aiken, 1819-07-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 60-61
Scope and Contents
Concerning longitude and enclosing a chart.
Dates:
1819-07-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to [Andrew Aiken], 1820-04-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 62-64
Scope and Contents
Concerning his theories on finding longitude.
Dates:
1820-04-27
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to Dr Thomas Young, 1820-08-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 65-66
Scope and Contents
Originally enclosing papers on finding longitude.
Dates:
1820-08-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to Dr Thomas Young, 1821-09-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 67-69
Scope and Contents
Outlining his proposals for finding longitude and enclosing a chart.
Note: folios 67-69 were originally bound in the wrong order and should be read 69, 67-68.
Dates:
1821-09-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to Dr Thomas Young, 1828-05-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 72-72a
Scope and Contents
Proposing the use of a mechanical apparatus which could be 'affixed' to a ship to measure its progress, with the distance travelled then used to determine longitude.
Dates:
1828-05-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to Lord Melville, 1818-08-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 53-54
Scope and Contents
Includes a chart to work out latitude or longitude at sea from any place.
Dates:
1818-08-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Cragg to the Board of Longitude, 1821-09-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/39: 70-71
Scope and Contents
Requesting permission to use the observatory at Greenwich.
Dates:
1821-09-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1786-12-28
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 239-240
Scope and Contents
Concerning the rate of the Board of Longitude's watch and the provision of books and instruments.
Dates:
1786-12-28
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1787-01-16
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 241-244
Scope and Contents
Concerning the rate of the Board of Longitude's watch; the provision of books; the testing of instruments intended for the observatory; the discovery of damage to a sextant; and his request for an advance of a year's subsistence.
Dates:
1787-01-16
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1787-01-10 - 1787-01-19
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 245-246
Scope and Contents
Requesting the advance of a year's subsistence and his request to be appointed to the land service at Botany Bay; also enclosing a copy of a letter from Lord Howe about his appointment.
Dates:
1787-01-10 - 1787-01-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1787-01-21
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 247-248
Scope and Contents
Concerning a letter from Lord Howe about his appointment to Botany Bay, and his objections to being placed in the marine detachment of HMS Sirius rather than in the land service.
Dates:
1787-01-21
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1787-01-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 249-250
Scope and Contents
Concerning a fault in the sextant and requesting a replacement instrument; also concerning his desire to be placed in the land detachment.
Dates:
1787-01-25
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1787-02-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 251-252
Scope and Contents
Concerning repairs to a sextant by Mr Ramsden and supplies for the observatory.
Dates:
1787-02-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1787-02-18
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 253-254
Scope and Contents
Concerning a replacement sextant and black index glass from Ramsden.
Dates:
1787-02-18
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter from William Dawes to Nevil Maskelyne, 1787-03-20
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/48: 255-256
Scope and Contents
Concerning supplies of instruments and other preparations.
Dates:
1787-03-20
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).