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ALL Trinity men will, like myself, regret that Lord Portsmouth's gift, recorded in NATURE of June 6, should have been made to the library of Newton's University instead of to that of Newton's College. Surely for many reasons Trinity library is the most fitting depository for the Newton manuscripts. A catalogue of these papers is given in Collet's “Relics of Literature, 1823,” pp. 190-194, consisting of eighty-two manuscripts, said to cover nearly eight thousand pages, mostly quarto or folio, besides six note-books, and many letters to Newton in English, French, and Latin. Unfortunately many of these papers relate to biblical or theological subjects.
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INGLEBY, C. Newton's Manuscripts and Birthplace . Nature 6, 149 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006149a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/006149a0