St John‘s College Personal Collections

Written from Hampstead. Aurora Borealis. [Smith's Prize questions] Method of Sylvester for partition of numbers [Ferrers Graphs.?] Riddles. Paper on Motion of Sphere with fluid centre, retardation of earth. Still with Stokes. Thomson. Opinion of Stokes.

Rohrs, John Henry (fl 1868-1869)

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/13/1
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15 Feb. 1870

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Sylvester's letters against the chronograph (in the Times?). Forthcoming tests with chronograph and Whitworth seven inch gun.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 3/18/1
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17 Nov. 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Parlous state of national affairs. Encloses diagram comparing F.B's ballistics tables with those of Krupps (missing: possibly table with F.B. to J.C.A. of 25 Oct.1881. Box 3/14/2) J.J.Sylvester in Nature, on matrices.

Bashforth, Francis (1819-1912) mathematician

Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams

Adams/Box 5-15/Box 12/27/2
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8 Jan. 1884

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Iniquities of RAS Council. Stone's questions on sun's motion and lunar tables. Stone. Cayley on the same. Seeing Sylvester.

Pritchard, Charles (1808-1893) headmaster and astronomer

Copy of letter to J.J. Sylvester

Adams/Box 35-38/Box 38/16/1
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27 Apr. 1888

Part of Papers of John Couch Adams

Acknowledgement of copy of paper on Newton and Campbell. Letter or extract of letter transcribed for MacAlister's biography. Possible that this particular copy is JCA's own.

Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer

Letters to JJS

Sylvester/Box 2-7/Box 2-3 Folder 2-9
Subseries
1844–1906

Part of Papers of James Joseph Sylvester

Letters mainly from mathematicians.

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