Letters from George Boole and from Charles Babbage

Two manuscript letters: one from George Boole to Walter White of the Royal Society, concerning issues of the Transactions of the Philosophical Society, 20 September 1864 and the other from Charles Babbage to a Mr. Horner, declining his invitation, 5 June 1861. Also15 typescript letters from the computer experts.

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Category:
Archive
Object Number:
2013-112
Materials:
paper (fibre product)
type:
letter - correspondence
rights:
Unknown Copyright holder
credit:
Rosenberg, Jerry

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