Identity area
Reference code
Adams/Box 19/19/1/1
Unique identifier
GB 275 Adams/Box 19/19/1/1
Title
Autograph letter to Roger Cotes
Date(s)
- July 1712-Aug. 1712 (Undated.) (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
2 leaves paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1642-1727)
Biographical history
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Draft of letter for which the final version does not survive, of late Jul./early Aug. 1712, containing a draft of the Scholium to Proposition 35 of the Principia, 2nd ed., 1713. See A.R. Hall and L. Tilling (eds.) The correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 5, 1709-1713. CUP, 1975. pp 315-319, letters 929 and 931.
The letter was discovered in JCA's papers with letters from D. Brewster, March - May 1855, (Box 5/37), and had evidently been sent to Brewster for comment and returned, through the post.
The remainder of Newton's drafts of letters to Cotes are among the Portsmouth Papers in CUL, and the final versions (other than that of this letter), are in Trinity College Library.