IX. COTES'S LETTERS TO NEWTON, MOSTLY PUBLISHED IN EDLESTON'S CORRESPONDENCE OF NEWTON AND COTES, Together with three Letters and a Memorandum by Robert Smith relating to the foregoing letters and the publication of Cotes's works. Cotes to Newton. April 29, 1715, On the Eclipse of the Sun, 22nd April, partly given in Edleston, p. 179. Robert Smith to Newton, relating to the publication of Cotes's works, Dec. 23, 1718; Aug. 12, 1720. Robert Smith to John Conduitt, Esq., Feb. 4, 1732-3, asking for the loan to him of the foregoing letter of Cotes on the Eclipse. Also a memorandum dated June 6, 1738, acknowledging the receipt of certain letters of Cotes to Newton lent to him by Mrs Conduitt. X. ROUGH DRAFTS OF SOME OF NEWTON'S LETTERS TO COTES. The letters in Edleston and the pages to which these drafts relate are given in the following list: This is rather fuller than the letter printed by Edleston. XI. KEILL TO NEWTON. Keill to Newton, April 3, 1711. Copy of Keill's answer to the letter "pro eminente Mathematico,” in the Journal Littéraire, 29th July, 1713. Keill to Newton, Nov. 9, 1713. Feb. 8, 1713-4. Answer in Edleston, Cor respondence of Newton and Cotes, p. 169, dated April 2. Feb. 9, 1713-4. April 20, 1714. Answer in Edleston, p. 170. May 14, 1714. (Draft of a letter from Newton to Keill dated May 15, 1714, is printed in Edleston, p. 176.) (On the back of Keill's letter of Oct. 29, 1715, there is a Newton's hand in answer to an objection of Bernouilli.) XII. PEMBERTON'S LETTERS TO NEWTON WHILE EDITING THE 3RD EDITION OF THE 'PRINCIPIA.' Besides these, 16 undated letters and 7 sheets of queries. *XIII. LETTERS FROM N. FACIO DUILLIER N. Facio Duillier to Conduitt, Aug. 8, 1730 (with proposed Epitaphs on Newton). N. Facio Duillier to Conduitt, Aug. 12, 1730. Abstract of Facio's Letter to Dr Worth, Jan. 26, 1731–2. N. Facio Duillier to Conduitt, April 5, 1732. petition to the king. Petition to the Commons. A printed copy of a Latin Eclogue on Newton by M. Facio de Duillier. * XIV. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS. Venan(?) to Huyghens, Aug. 20, 1664. 2. Borellius to Wallis (Latin), Dec. 6, 1670. 4. Robert Hooke to Newton, Feb. 1675-6. Brewster, i. 140. 5. Newton to Hook (on thin plates), Feb. 5, 1675-6. Brewster, i. 141. 6. Thomas Burnet to Newton, Jan. 13, 1680-81. 7. Newton to Thomas Burnet, s. d. (Jan. 1680—1?). Brewster, ii. 447. 8. 9. Boyle to Newton, Aug. 19, 1682. Newton to Jan. 11, 1687-8 (dated, but not signed). Brewster, ii. 546. 10. Gilbert Clerke to Newton, on difficulties in the Principia, 26 Sept. 1687, with draft of Newton's answer. Gilbert Clerke to Newton, Oct. 3, 1687. 11. John Locke to Newton, July 26 [1692]. Brewster, ii. 461. Richard Bentley to Newton, Feb. 18, 1692-3. Brewster, 12. ii. 463. Brewster, ii. 472. 13. John Mill to Newton, Nov. 7, 1693. 16. Haye. Brewster, ii. 471. Basnage de Bonval to Newton, Aug. 22 (no year), De la 17. Charles Montague to Newton, March 19, 1695 (offering the mastership of the Mint). Brewster, ii. 191. 18. Cassini to Newton, April 6, 1698, on the Satellites of Saturn. 19. Truchet to Newton (no date), acknowledgment of a copy of Newton's Optics translated into French. 20. T. Horne to Newton, Aug. 22 (no year). 21. John Hockett to Newton, Sept. 14, 1699 (asking interest for his son at Trinity, with some chron. notes of Newton on the back). 22. to Lady Norris, proposing marriage (copy in Conduitt's hand), 1703-4. Brewster, ii. 211. 23. Lord Halifax to Newton, March 17 [1704-5]. Brewster, ii. 216. 24. Lord Halifax to Newton, May 5, 1705. Brewster, ii. 217. 25, 26. Two drafts of Newton's letter to a friend at Cambridge, about the election [1705]. Brewster, ii. 215. 27. Draft of part of a letter from Newton to [F. Godolphin?] [1705.] 28. D. Gregory to Newton, Sept. 16, 1707, about the Scottish coinage. 29. R. Bentley to Newton, June 10, 1708. Brewster, ii. 248. Brewster, ii. 250. 31. Remond de Monmort to Newton, Feb. 16, 1709–10. 32. to Newton, giving an account of the quarrel between Drs Sloane and Woodward, about stones in the gall-bladder, March 28, 1711. Brewster, ii. 244. |