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Letter from Georgina Gregory donating these papers, December 1869

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Identifier: Coll-33/Folio C/p1

Scope and Contents

Letter from Georgina Gregory, Canaan Lodge. It states that, "Principal Forbes particularly requested my brother, John Gregory, to give these M.S.S. to the University, which my brother had agreed to do. But circumstances prevented my brother from offering them to the University at the time."

The letter also described the collection as containing items papers of various members of the Gregory/Gregorie family and that a volume of Archibald Pitcairn's papers accompanies them.

Dates: December 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of David Gregory / Folio C

Papers of David Gregory

 Fonds

Identifier: Coll-33

Scope and Contents The papers of David Gregory consist of: bound manuscripts of mathematical and personal papers by both David Gregory and James Gregory bound manuscripts Lectiones Mechanicae Sive Geometria de Motu parts 1-4 (1689-1690) bound manuscripts of treatises on mathematics and astronomy (1683-1694) bound manuscripts ...

Dates: 1652-1706

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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