View Catalog: MINT00195

Catalog Name MINT00195
Document
Title Holograph notes on the denominations, fineness and weight of various foreign coins, with a letter to Catherine Barton dated 5 August 1700 on the reverse
Subtitle
Author Isaac Newton
Place of Origin no place assigned
Origin Date 1700
Repository National Archives (Kew, Richmond)
Pages 1,030
Wordcount 0
Language
Contents
Notes

On reverse of a holograph letter dated 5 August 1700 from Newton to Catherine Barton [his half-niece], wishing her well with her recovery from smallpox.||The letter to Barton is very well represented in print, appearing in David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (2 vols., Edinburgh, 1855), 2: 213, in Louis Trenchard More, Isaac Newton (New York and London, 1934), 470-1, in Craig, NATM, 27, in NC, 4: 349-50, and in Westfall, 595. It does not seem to have occurred to any of the authors or editors of these works that the fact that Newton used the same sheet for notes on coinage rather suggests he never sent the letter (though it is of course possible he sent another copy).||The manuscript is badly damaged and all the printed versions contain a number of conjectural readings.

Related Materials