Morgan, Professor Augustus De
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- Morgan, Augustus De (1806-1871) mathematician
TitleMorgan, Professor Augustus De
Reference codeMS321
Date1854, 1864-1867
Scope and ContentThe collection contains 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, September 15 1864
2-4. John Thomas Graves, September 20 and 27, October 8 1864
5-7. Items concerning John Dawson of Sedbergh
5. Thomas Harrison, April 18 1867
6. Edward Cust, September 9 1867
7. Short biography of John Dawson, manuscript copy of article in the “Kendal Times”, November 24 1866
8. 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.
1-4. Letters to Augustus de Morgan, mostly about mathematical books and the history of the signs + and -.
1. John Bellingham Inglis, September 15 1864
2-4. John Thomas Graves, September 20 and 27, October 8 1864
5-7. Items concerning John Dawson of Sedbergh
5. Thomas Harrison, April 18 1867
6. Edward Cust, September 9 1867
7. Short biography of John Dawson, manuscript copy of article in the “Kendal Times”, November 24 1866
8. 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.
Conditions governing accessOpen for research. At least 24 hours notice is required for research visits.
Extent1 volume
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There are various autograph letters written and received by Augustus de Morgan in the University of London Library. University College London holds correspondence and papers, 1827-1871 (Ref: MSS ADD 2-3, 5-7, 27, 69), correspondence with George Boole, [1842]-1864 (Ref: MS ADD 97), correspondence with Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (Ref: Brougham Papers), and letters to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1827-1844 (Ref: SDUK); the Royal Astronomical Society Library, London, has correspondence and papers, 1831-1866 (Ref: MSS de Morgan), and letters from De Morgan to the Society, 1831-1866 (Ref: RAS letters); the Royal Observatory Library, Edinburgh, contains a catalogue of mathematical books (Ref: NRA(S) 2657); the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, holds family correspondence (Ref: Dep Lovelace Byron), miscellaneous correspondence (Ref: MS Autogr d14), and correspondence with Anne Isabella Byron, Lady Byron (Ref: Dep Lovelace Byron); Cambridge University Library has correspondence with Sir George Biddell Airy, 1850-1870 (Ref: RGO MSS 942-52), letters to William Hepworth Dixon, 1856-1857 (Ref: Add 9428), and letters to William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, 1845-1849 (Ref: Add 7342, 7656); the British Library, London, contains correspondence with Charles Babbage, 1830-1850 (Ref: Add MSS 37185-200); the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, holds letters to Alexander Campbell Fraser, 1855-1864 (Ref: Dep 208); Edinburgh University Library has letters to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, 1845-1851 (Ref: LOA); Trinity College, Dublin, contains letters to Sir William Rowan Hamilton, 1841-1865 (Ref: MS 1492); the Royal Society, London, holds correspondence with Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Bt, 1831-1870 (Ref: HS), and letters to Sir John William Lubbock, 3rd Bt, 1832-1860 (Ref: LUB); Trinity College Library, Cambridge University, has letters to William Whewell, [1832]-1866 (Ref: Whewell MSS); the American Philosophical Society Library, Pennsylvania, USA, holds letters, 1841-1866 (Ref: NUC MS 76-902).
Level of descriptionfonds