Catalogue Entry: MINT00081
Three partial holograph drafts of a letter reporting the tests of Charles Brattell and Catesby Oadham for the post of assay master (two other candidates not having appeared): Brattell is judged the better candidate
Contents
On the same side, also in Newton's hand: a series of calculations, notes on the value of Italian coins, and the end of a sentence about Tertullian and Cyprian.
Related Material
Final version in Longleat House, Portland Papers, IX, f.193 (dated 10 April 1713 and printed in NC, 5: 403-4 with the erroneous reference Mint 19/1/193). Another draft at MINT00606 (Mint 19/2/431).
