Catalogue Entry: MINT01249

Letter concerning Halley's acceptance of Newton's offer to assist him in securing an engineer's place

Author: Edmond Halley

Metadata: 13 Feb 1696/7, c. 296 words

Source: MM/5.41, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Printed in NC, 4: 230-1.

^[1] I hope you will be able
to gett us excused this
heavy Capitation tax
upon our salaries.

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk