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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin, on his intention to publish a piece on the collision of bodies, 7 December 1728

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Identifier: Coll-2911/3
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in little Tower Street", on Maclaurin's intention to publish a piece on the collision of bodies ("I wish I had Mr Graham's Experiment at full length with Liberty to insert it"), his response to the nascent priority dispute with George Campbell (his "design of giving a Treatise of Algebra", his "method of demonstrating that [i.e. Newton’s] rule by the Limits", by which "too Idemonstrate a Theorem in y[our?]...
Dates: 7 December 1728
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the dispute with Campbell, undated [probably 1729]

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Identifier: Coll-2911/2
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Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling, undated [probably 1729], on the dispute with George Campbell regarding impossible roots ("I send you with this letter my answer to Mr George Campbell which I publish with regret being so far from delighting in such a difference that I have the greatest dislike at a publick dispute of this Nature"), also mentioning a debt of six guineas to Abraham de Moivre.

Dates: undated [probably 1729]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the priority dispute with Campbell regarding impossible roots, 1 May 1729

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Identifier: Coll-2911/4
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Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin to addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated 1 May 1729, on the priority dispute with Campbell regarding impossible roots ("I have sent Mr Folkes the remainder of my paper … I am satisfied that any person who will read this paper and compare it with Mr Campbell’s will do me justice … The proposition I sent you in my last letter is the foundation of all my Theorems about the impossible Roots)".

Dates: 1 May 1729
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin on the priority dispute with George Campbell over the impossible roots of equations, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]

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Identifier: Coll-2911/1
Scope and Contents Autograph letter from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at the Academy in Little Tower Street, London", dated Edinburgh, 11 February 1728 [Old Style, which means the year is actually 1729], expressing agitation regarding the replication of his work on the "impossible roots" in a paper by George Campbell in the Philosophical Transactions for October, asserting his own claim to priority, and providing demonstrations (including one...
Dates: 11 February 1728 [Old Style, i.e. 1729]
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin, principally on fluxions, 12 May 1738

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Identifier: Coll-2911/9
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stirling "at Leadhills", dated 12 May 1738, principally on fluxions ("I am persuaded many things are wanting in the inverse methods of fluxions especially in what relates to fluents that are not reduced and perhaps are not reduced to the logarithms or circle. I give a chapter on these, distinguish them into various orders, and shew easy constructions of lines by whose rectification they may be assigned"), citing the work of...
Dates: 12 May 1738
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph letter signed from Colin Maclaurin recommending "an ingenious young man", April 1938

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Identifier: Coll-2911/8
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Autograph letter signed by Colin Maclaurin addressed to James Stilring "at Lead Hills", dated April 1738, in Dean near Edinburgh, recommending "an ingenious young man here who I am very sure will please you" owing to his "natural turn for making mathematical instruments", with a postscript regarding the publication of De Moivre’s new book (presumably the second edition of The Doctrine of Chances) and mentioning centripetal forces.

Dates: April 1938
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Autograph letters from Colin Maclaurin to James Stirling

Autograph Letter Signed from David Oliphant to David Covingrie of Newark, 27 June 1748

 Item — Box CLX-A-355
Identifier: Coll-1848/17-0241
Scope and Contents Autograph letter signed from David Oliphant to David Covingtrie of Newark (Orkney), from Charles Town (nowadays Charleston, South Carolina), dated June 27th 1748.This relic of colonial America links two Scottish Jacobites across the ocean. David Oliphant, a medical man, made some impact on South Caroline society, and was tutor to Charles Pinckney - 37th Governor of South Carolina. The addressee was a member of a family of lairds and merchants in Orkney, who, in their opposition...
Dates: 27 June 1748
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to an unidentified recipient, 1 January 1849

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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0060/4
Scope and Contents This is an autograph letter signed sent by Scottish lawyer and Phrenological Society spokesman George Combe, dated 10 May 1851, Edinburgh. Unidentified recipient ("My dear Sir"). The letter is discussing subscriptions to the society, and German theology. It partly reads: "I duly received your letter of the 24th April and regret that I am able only to muster two subscribers in addition to myself. This is the very focus of Evangelical faith, & your views are in favour with few; but I hope...
Dates: 1 January 1849
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to Dr Robert Carruthers, Inverness Courier editor, 27 February 1851

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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/12
Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to Inverness Courier editor Dr Robert Carruthers, regarding the attribution of an Edinburgh Review article on "The Ethics of Phrenology" to "Mr. A. Smith, Banff", when the author might in fact be Sir William Hamilton: "In your notice of the late Mr. A. Smith, Banff, you mention that he wrote "The Ethics of Phrenology" an article in the Edinburgh Review. As...
Dates: 27 February 1851
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection

Autograph Letter Signed from George Combe to his agents, 19 June 1840

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Identifier: Coll-1848/25-0059/9
Scope and Contents Autograph Letter Signed from Scottish phrenologist and lawyer George Combe to his agents, requesting remittance of the previous years account, and for a parcel to be sent to Professor Benjamin Silliman of New Haven. Westminster Bridge, 19 June 1840.Begins: "Gentlemen! | As I am on my way to Edinburgh, from the United States, I shall be obliged by your informing me, here, whether you have remitted or otherways paid the balance due to me on last years account, due on 4th. June,...
Dates: 19 June 1840
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Smaller acquisitions collection