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GB 0096 AL258 · Fonds · 1806

2 letters to Owen Williams, 22-30 Nov 1806, relating to copper and timber production. Including 3 sheets of tables and calculations.

Williams , Owen , d 1832 , politician and industrialist
Wallace, William: letter
GB 0096 AL489 · Fonds · [1833]

Letter from Wililam Wallace to Rev George Peacock, Dean of Ely, [1833]. Describing Wallace's part in the introduction of foreign mathematical notation to England and 'the Reformation .... the the Mathematical science in Britain'.

Autograph, with signature. Headed 'First Copy'. Inscribed in another hand: 'Found among Mr Thomas Galloway's papers'.

Wallace , William , 1768-1843 , mathematician
GB 106 9/22 · Fonds · 1850-1970

The collection contains correspondence related to the theme 'Scholars and Learned Ladies', including letter from Anna Gurney to Sir William Hooker, c. 1850. Correspondence dealing with the election of Miss Mary A Blagg as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Extract from Professor Turner's introduction to Miss Blagg's 'Collated List of Lunar Formations'. Letters from Professor Turner. Letter from Frank Dyson. A short account of the life and work of Mary Blagg produced by her nieces, 1968. Correspondence in 1962 about the late Miss Pernel Strachey's typescript edition of the Emmanuel College manuscript. Admission of women Fellows to the Royal Society. Correspondence between Royal Society, Society for Women's Service, Mrs Hutton and Miss P Strachey, 1954. Correspondence between Lucy Norton, John Carter and Joan Bennett about some George Eliot letters and an article on them by Joan Bennett, 1968. Copy of a letter from Mrs Baines (Bedford College) to Miss Pernel Strachey about a tapestry for Newnham College, 1945. Letter from Myra Curtis (Newnham) to Pernel Strachey, 1945. Letter from Hertha Ayrton to Dr Gorthon, 1911. Autograph signatures of Margaret McNair Stokes, Mrs Agnata Frances Butle, Jane Ellen Harrison.

Various
GB 0096 AL479 · Fonds · 1861-1863

Letters and papers relating to Gottfried von Leibnitz's claim to primacy over Sir Isaac Newton in the discovery of calculus. Including correspondence between H Sloman, William Hepworth Dixon (editor of The Athenaeum), W Metcalfe, Augustus De Morgan and a Mr de Fanget, 1861-1863. Many items are autograph and bear signatures.

Morgan , Augustus , De , 1806-1871 , mathematician x De Morgan , Augustus Dixon , William Hepworth , 1821-1879 , writer Sloman , H , fl 1860-1863 , writer Metcalfe , W , fl 1861-1863 , correspondent Fanget , - , de , fl 1861-1863 , correspondent x de Fanget , -
GB 0096 AL342 · Fonds · 1864-1894

34 letters from Francis William Newman, 1864-1894. 32 letters addressed to Newman's nephew John Rickards Mozley; 1 letter addressed to Newman's sister Jemima Mozley; 1 letter addressed to J R Mozley's father-in-law Bonamy Price. Topics covered include: domestic and family affairs; Newman's brother John Henry Newman (Cardinal Newman); education (including Augustus De Morgan and University College London); New Testament criticism; religion and morality; classical literature; mathematics; wealth; current affairs (including Irish Home Rule and the American Civil War); William Ewart Gladstone; and John Ruskin.

All items are autograph, with signatures.

Newman , Francis William , 1805-1897 , Professor of Latin
GB 0096 AL181 · Fonds · 1900

(1) Letter from William Frend De Morgan of The Vale, King's Road, Chelsea to H F Heath, Librarian of the University of London, 20 Oct 1900. (2) Letter from William Frend De Morgan of Via Lorenzo Magnifico 25, Florence, Italy to H F Heath, Librarian of the University of London, 4 Nov 1900. Both letters relate to De Morgan's gift of notes and additions made by his father, Augustus De Morgan, for his Arithmetical Books.

Both letters are autograph, with signatures. Filed with a typescript copy of Dr Heath's reply to the first letter.

Morgan , William Frend De , 1839-1917 , potter and novelist x De Morgan , William Frend
GB 0096 MS239 · Fonds · 1850

Papers of Augustus De Morgan including notes and additions made by de Morgan for his 'Arithmetical books'.

Morgan , Augustus De , 1806-1871 , mathematician and historian x De Morgan , Augustus
GB 0096 MS321 · Fonds · 1854, 1864-1867

Papers of Augustus De Morgan including letters and notebooks relating to various mathematical subjects and general correspondence 1864-1867.

1-4. Letters to Augustus de Morgan, mostly about mathematical books and the history of the signs + and -.

  1. John Bellingham Inglis, 15 Sep 1864
    2-4. John Thomas Graves, 20 and 27 Sep and 8 Oct 1864
    5-7. Items concerning John Dawson of Sedbergh
    1. Thomas Harrison, 18 Apr 1867
    2. Edward Cust, 9 Sep 1867
    3. Short biography of John Dawson, manuscript copy of article in the 'Kendal Times', 24 Nov 1866
    4. MS notes by Augustus de Morgan, mostly concerned with mathematical books and the first use of the signs + and -.

Together with 14 request slips for books in the British Museum, one dated 1854 and the rest 1864.

Morgan , Augustus De , 1806-1871 , mathematician and historian x De Morgan , Augustus
GB 0096 AL466 · Fonds · 1867

(1) Letter from David Mather Masson of the Garrick Club to Augustus De Morgan, 13 Jun 1867. Discussing Thomas Carlyle's mathematical work.

(2) Letter from Thomas Carlyle of Chelsea to [De Morgan], 19 Jun 1867. Discussing Carlyle's translation of A M Legendre's Eléments de géométrie and the 'the Galbraith legend' [that a Mr Galbraith was the translator of Legendre's work].

Both letters are autograph, with signatures.

Masson , David Mather , 1822-1907 , biographer, university teacher and editor Carlyle , Thomas , 1795-1881 , historian and philosopher
GB 0096 AL70a · Fonds · 1907

Letter from James Ludovic Lindsay of 2 Cadogan Square, [London] to R A Rye, [Librarian of the University of London], 9 Jun 1907. Describing how Lord Crawford had used the De Morgan Mathematical Collection, now in in the University Library, to help him in founding the mathematical and physical science section of his own library at Haigh Hall, 'second only, I think, to the Imperial Library of Pulcowa Observatory in Russia [Pulkovo Observatory, near St Petersburg]'. Describing the printing of the 'great catalogue' of his library as 'a very heavy business'. A postscript expresses sympathy for the death of William Brenchley Rye 'a very valued assistant [in the Earl's library] at Haigh'.

Autograph, with signature.

Lindsay , James Ludovic , 1847-1913 , 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres , astronomer and book collector
GB 0096 MS299 · Fonds · 1612

In Arithmetica diversche questyen met hare solutien: door C.J. Broersz, liefhebber der Reeckenconst ... Tot Haarlem, Bij Gillis Rooman, woonende in de Jacobine-strate, in de vergulden Parsse, Anno 1590. The transcription of the book by Broersz occupies the first 33 leaves, and is signed F.[?] J. Riett, 1612. Ff. 35-88 contain further arithmetical problems, including some in verse form illustrated by pen-and-ink drawings.

Unknown
GB 0096 AL61 · Fonds · 1828

Letter from Leonard Horner of University Chambers to Augustus De Morgan, 25 Feb 1828. Enclosing a letter appointing a Professor of Mathematics in the University of London.

Autograph, with signature.

Horner , Leonard , 1785-1864 , geologist
GB 0096 AL353 · Fonds · 1853

3 letters from John Thomas Graves of 29 Grosvenor Place, Cheltenham to Augustus De Morgan, 28 Jan, 4 Feb and 4 Jun 1853. Relating to the works of Simon Stevin and other mathematical literature.

Autograph, with signature.

Graves , John Thomas , 1806-1870 , jurist and mathematician
GB 0096 MS786 · Fonds · 1863

Paper by Alexander J Ellis 'On clinant geometry, as a means of expressing the general relatings of points on a plane, realising imaginaries, and extending the theories of anharmonic ratios', communicated by Arthur Cayley, Esq. F.R.S. Febr. 1863. Abstract printed in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol.12, pp 442-3 Carbon copy of MS, with figures drawn in ink. Text and figures on rectos only. Paper wrappers inscribed 'Prof Augustus De Morgan, with the Author's respects'. Part of A De Morgan's library, given to the University by Lord Overstone in 1871. Former shelf-mark L(P.C.6).

Ellis , Alexander John , 1814-1890 , philologist and mathematician
GB 0096 MS165 · Fonds · 1830

Copy of the draft of the first work published by Augustus de Morgan, 'The Elements of Arithmetic', 1830.

Morgan , Augustus De , 1806-1871 , mathematician and historian x De Morgan , Augustus
GB 0096 AL491 · Fonds · 1853

Letter from Matthew Collins of 40 Upper Pitt Street, Liverpool to Augustus De Morgan, 8 Apr 1853. Covering note, enclosing a pamphlet, On Clairaut's theorem ... (1853).

Autograph, with signature. A note in De Morgan's hand states that the content of the pamphlet, published in the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, new series vol IX (1854), were plagiarized from a lecture given by Mr James MacCullagh in 1846.

Collins , Matthew , fl 1853 , mathematician and correspondent of Augustus De Morgan
GB 0096 AL425 · Fonds · 1891

Letter from Josiah Latimer Clark of Westminster Chambers, 11 Victoria Street, London to Sydney Lupton, 2 Dec 1891. 'Your most delightful book of tables and constants is I presume on every table ...'. Writing in reply to a letter from Lupton, saying that he hopes to correct his own figures before long, since Lupton had referred him to an article by Professor [George Carey] Foster in Watts' Dictionary [of Chemistry].

Autograph, with signature.

Clark , Josiah Latimer , 1822-1898 , civil engineer x Clark , Latimer
GB 0096 AL22 · Fonds · 1848

Letter from Michel Chasles of Paris to Augustus De Morgan, 8 Apr 1848. On algebraical formulae.

Autograph, with signature.

Chasles , Michel , 1793-1880 , French mathematician
GB 0096 AL25 · Fonds · 1852

Letter from Michel Chasles of Paris to Augustus De Morgan, 4 Oct 1852. On mathematical matters.

Autograph, with signature.

Chasles , Michel , 1793-1880 , French mathematician
GB 0096 AL24 · Fonds · 1852

Letter from Michel Chasles of Paris to Augustus De Morgan, 31 Aug 1852. On mathematical matters.

Autograph, with signature.

Chasles , Michel , 1793-1880 , French mathematician
GB 0096 AL23 · Fonds · 1850

Letter from Michel Chasles of Paris to Augustus De Morgan, 17 May 1850. On mathematical matters.

Autograph, with signature.

Chasles , Michel , 1793-1880 , French mathematician
Cayley, Arthur
GB 0096 MS1012 · Fonds · 1891

Nine foolscap pages of handwritten mathematical calculations and notes by Arthur Cayley entitled 'Areal Co-ordinates' (December 1891)

Cayley , Arthur , 1821-1895 , mathematician
GB 0096 AL461 · Fonds · [1857]

Letter from Henry Peter Brougham of [Westmorland] to [Augustus] De Morgan, 11 Sep [1857]. Referring to an article in Notes and Queries [2nd series, Volume 4] and discussing mathematical subjects. Autograph, with signature.

Brougham , Henry Peter , 1778-1868 , 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux , statesman x Brougham and Vaux , 1st Baron