James Joseph Sylvester Material

Date:
1876
Reference:
GALTON/2/10/9/23
Part of:
Galton Papers
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Printed material relating to James Joseph Sylvester. Contains the following:

Copy of Rosalind, and Other Poems. Supplement to the Laws of Verse by J J Sylvester (privately printed, London, 1876)

Page titled "Music and Mathematics", extracted, with variations, from Nature, 9 December 1886. This corrected reprint dates from 1 January 1887. Includes a sonnet by J J Sylvester.

Four pages from Nature, 3 January 1889, pp. 217-220, with an article about Sylvester; plus four copies of an engraving of Sylvester from the same issue.

Four poems by Sylvester. Annotated "Francis Galton With the author's best regards". With MS additions.

Publication/Creation

1876

Physical description

4 pieces

Location of duplicates

A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

Terms of use

The papers are available at UCL Special Collections and Archives subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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Location of original

The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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