A commercially-produced print, numbered 26488 on the image.
Of a similar date to the print on f. 2r.
Four letters: "Refers to I. Newton letter to Sam. Pepys 23 Dec. 1693 bought by R. J. Edleston from F. Barker (who bought it from [?] 'Bibliotheca Phillippica' 4th July -6 July 1892) and later presented by Miss Edleston to Trinity College Library in 1953." - note on second page of Add.Ms.c.1/100.
Edleston, Joseph (c 1816-1895) Fellow of Trinity College CambridgeCopy of a letter from Cotes to Newton dated 18 Aug. 1709 and copy of a letter from Bentley to Cotes undated.
Admy - Commends WW for his defence of Isaac Newton [in the wake of Francis Baily's Life of Flamsteed]: 'a character which is one of the most brilliant spots in the national Glory'.
Allerly by Melrose - DB has read WW's essay on mineralogical classification with much pleasure, and considers it a vast improvement upon Mohs's system [Friedrich Mohs] - 'a provisional system which will soon disappear'. Hopes WW will now devote his time to examining the properties of individual minerals. Could WW send him any unknown information on Isaac Newton to assist him with his biography.
614 Ohio St., Vallejo, Calif.; addressed to 'Sir George Trevelyan' as Master of Trinity College. - Is sending Trevelyan a copy of his Wave-Theory Book IX, Part I. 'As you are Master of Newton's College, that alone would make this book of deep interest to you: but there is another reason - namely Newton's Letters to Bentley, 1692, which deal with Cosmogony since the time of Plato...' The book will have 'an appeal to the Historian of Modern Nations'. The cover page 'appeals to Master of Trinity, like Dr Whewell, and therefore is worthy of your careful study'. Asks to hear from Trevelyan when he has read it.
See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson (1866-1962), astronomerNotebook with "Newton Sect: 2. 3." on front cover with "Shepherd, Trin: Coll" at top right. Follows Sections 2 and 3 of vol. I of Newton's Principia, with Propositions and their diagrams followed by Problems.
Shepherd, [?] (fl. 1820s-1830s), member of Trinity CollegeSt. Cloud, nr Worcester. - Has been advised by his friend Dr Howard [Joseph Jackson Howard], Maltravers Herald, to ask Wright for further information regarding Dr Robert Smith. Letters convey information discovered by Smith Carington on Robert Smith and his father John.
Also discussed are Thomas Smith of Holt; 'Clement Smith, alias Nevill, a younger brother of this Thomas' [Senior Bursar of Trinity?]; Dr Thomas Smith, Vice-Master of Trinity; 'Barnabas Smith, Rector of Witham, who married Sir Isaac Newton's Mother'; Elzimar Smith, and Canon Sebastian Smith.
Stapleton, near Bristol - Confirms the location of Isaac Newton's rooms. See 'the old Bentley Books' for memoranda on Newton's life. JHM heard the 'disgraceful story of Collier & the garden door' as an undergraduate."
Presents two Isaac Newton books which Newton presented to John Locke: Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica (London, 1687), Trinity shelfmark Adv.b.1.6 and Opticks (London, 1704), Trinity shelfmark Adv.b.1.16.
Trenton - While WW was defending Isaac Newton in England, FB was also defending him in the USA: 'Nothing could be more contemptible than the attacks of Flamsteed - they refute themselves'.
Giving the provenance of a lock of Newton's hair he donated to the College.
Two photographs of a chair, taken by W. T. Munns, Gravesend, with three letters: one from James Raine asking his cousin Mary K. Butler for the history of the chair, and two more from Mary, one answering him, and the other forwarding the photographs and letters to Lord Adrian, Master of Trinity.
Butler, Mary Katherine (fl 1960) cousin of James RaineAsks on behalf of M. Biot what is meant by supersedeas in Newton's 'otiore expensa'. He has written an article on Richard Sheepshanks for the Examiner; wonders who will have both power & leisure to help young observers now.
Morgan, Augustus De (1806-1871), mathematician and historianMS copies, with annotations giving sources,references to persons and places etc; reckoning of receipt and reply dates.
Edleston, Joseph (c 1816-1895) Fellow of Trinity College CambridgeKings College - Concerning the portrait of Isaac Newton that he helped Trinity College procure.
Printed menu for Newton 350th Anniversary Dinner, held on 3 July 1992. Newcutting, The Times "Saturday Review", 4 July 1992: new poem, Newton Enigmas, by Ben Okri, commissioned by the Master of Trinity, Sir Michael Atiyah, to mark the anniversary and performed for the first time by the Trinity College choir at the 3 July dinner in a setting by Richard Marlow, director of Music at Trinity.
Trinity College, Cambridge'Newton's Work in Physics', Yorkshire Branch of the Mathematical Association, Grantham, Lincolnshire, 20 March 1927.
Letter from the University of Leeds re the Sir Isaac Newton Bicentenary Celebrations organised by the Yorkshire Branch of the Mathematical Association, 16 April 1926
7 C. St. & T. - Can not find that letters from Newton to Keil in 1714 have ever been published, hopes he will [gain?] them.
Copy of three original letters: from Cotes to Bentley 10 Mar. 1713, from Bentley to Cotes, undated, and from Isaac Newton to Cotes 5 Mar. 1713.
Royal Observatory Greenwich - Answers WW's queries: when Newton's 'analysis is carried to perfection (i.e. so as to shew Fraunhoffer's lines), it has certainly developed original properties of light... Their existence in the diffraction spectrum tends most strikingly to confirm this. - You may also say that persons who have tried the experiments with great care do not believe in [David] Brewster's changes of colour. - The changes of colour are certainly the only source of his objections'. The French have always associated Thomas Young with the discovery of the undulating theory of light.
37 Tavistock Place - FB has 'for a long time past, had it in contemplation to give a new edition of Flamsteed's [John Flamsteed] British Catalogue [An Account of the Rev. John Flamsteed...to which is added his British Catalogue of Stars, Corrected and Enlarged, 1835]; and this intention is now fully confirmed by the recent & singular discovery of Flamsteed's M.S.S. at the Royal Observatory'. Through JF's original computing book 'I have been enabled to detect the source of most of his errors, & to rectify them accordingly'. In producing this amended and enlarged edition of the British Catalogue, it will not be possible for me (neither would it be fair or just to the memory of Flamsteed) to conceal the various other matters contained in those M.S.S...You will readily see, from the tone of Flamsteed, that he is very sore respecting the part which Newton took in the publication of the "Historia Celestis"...I am anxious, before I publish any thing, to discover (if possible) whether there are any M.S.S. in existence that will throw any light on this subject, & tend to set the character of Newton, in this business, in a fairer point of view'. Could GP check the Newton manuscripts and also inform WW. FB would like to see the whole of the manuscripts of Newton, in the possession of the University, published: 'There never was a time when they would be hailed with so much pleasure & satisfaction'.
Copy of three original letters: from Isaac Newton to Roger Cotes dated 5 Mar. 1713, with an addition from Bentley, with a letter from Cotes dated 25 June 1713 to Samuel Clarke.
Trinity - M. Crelle has been publishing a series of facsimiles, generally concerning the handwriting of a distinguished mathematician, in in the Journal der Mathematik, and AC has 'perhaps rashly' promised to supply him with some English examples. Would WW let him extract two or three letters from the volume of Newton's correspondence in the College library?
Concerns news of Sir John Herschel at the Cape, and a discovery of Newton's prism in Italy.
7 Camden St, N.W. - Thanks him 'for the Bacon which you found in the Barrow - It all amounts to wondrous little'. If Whewell is right that Bacon was well known with Cambridge men how could he be so little quoted? When he has time he intends to work out the thesis 'That Newton was more indebted to the schoolmen than to Bacon, and probably better associated with them'. He has received Mansel's Bampton lectures: 'I tell him by this post that it is the best argument I have seen against subscription at matriculation'. Discusses Earnshaw's integration of the equation of sound, his own method from 1848 and that of Jacques Charles.