Newton’s Correspondence

Showing 429–453 of 669 | Sorted by: Date | Shelfmark | Newton Catalogue ID (ascending | descending)

429.

Response to MINT00454 (Mint 19/3/23-8)

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/56, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00457

430.

Petition for a pay rise

Author: William Boswell

Source: MINT 19/3/156-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00408

431.

Letter from Newton to John Collins, dated 13 July 1672

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/23, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00245

432.

In response to Allardes' proposal, recommends that for the duration of the recoinage the Scots be allowed to revert to their old practice [adding copper during melting] as this seems to be the only practicable method of producing standard coin there

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/187, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00388

433.

Letter from Thomas Robinson to Newton containing a complaint against Robert Weddell (Deputy Warden of the Chester Mint)

Author: Thomas Robinson

Source: MS Add. 3964.2, f. 19v, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01745

434.

Excuses delays in presenting his accounts by his agent's failure to send him relevant documentation

Author: Duke of Lauderdale

Source: MINT 19/3/200-201, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00476

435.

Warrant to lend Hines a cutter for use on copper bars

Author: Treasury

Source: MINT 19/2/341, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00649

436.

In response to a verbal order, a detailed account of Newton's proposed method of coining copper from rolled bars, the requisite staff and their respective duties

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/356, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00633

437.

Corrected account of the total bullion brought into the Scottish Mint during the recoinage, with a covering letter containing apologies for errors in the previous account and a repeated enquiry about the allowance for waste

Author: Hercules Scott

Source: MINT 19/3/58-9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00451

438.

History of the smith's house since 1577 and of disputes between the Mint and the Ordnance Office as to which of them owns it

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/426, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00828

439.

Letter concerning selling of tin abroad

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/136.61, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00968

440.

Reports the East India Company's offer to take a hundred tons of tin in lieu of money owed it by the Treasury for saltpetre

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/557, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00712

441.

Copy of note referring the Taunton petition

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: MINT 1/7/70, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01150

442.

"Report of the Officers of the Mint upon the petition of Mr Clerk and Mr Cave joint Gravers of the Mint in Scotland"

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/149.45, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00969

443.

Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 29 January 1671/2

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/14, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00237

444.

Copy of letter concerning suggestions for the discouragement and reduction of counterfeiting

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 1/7/37, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01122

445.

Letter to Henry Oldenburg, 16 March 1671

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: EL/N1/35, Royal Society Library, London, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00307

446.

Reply to an order for an account of gold and silver coined since Christmas 1702

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/245, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00575

447.

Letter from John Wallis to Newton, dated 30 May 1695

Author: John Wallis

Source: MS Add. 3977.16, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00192

448.

An Accompt of a New Catadioptrical Telescope invented by Mr. Newton

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: ‘An Accompt of a New Catadioptrical Telescope invented by Mr. Newton’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, No. 81 (25 March 1672), pp. 4004-4007.

Newton Catalogue ID: NATP00007

449.

Copy of royal warrant to the Mint to receive plate at premium rates as specified in the Parliamentary ruling of 1 May 1711, issue receipts for it, and melt it at once into shillings and sixpences to be paid into the Exchequer

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/508, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00543

450.

Response to Lauderdale's request for an advance of £2,400 to the Edinburgh Mint

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/107-8, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00470

451.

Copy of note accompanying the memorial of Henry Smithson relation to prosecutions of coiners

Author: William Lowndes (Secretary to the Treasury)

Source: T 27/21.170, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01050

452.

Model letter for Allardes to send to Treasurer Godolphin

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/183, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT00387

453.

Copy of Richard Sandford's memorial concerning a clerk for assistance in the prosecutions of clippers and coiners

Author: Richard Sandford (Warden of the Mint)

Source: MINT 1/8/107, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

Newton Catalogue ID: MINT01194

Showing 429–453 of 669 | Sorted by: Date | Shelfmark | Newton Catalogue ID (ascending | descending)

© 2026 The Newton Project

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

Privacy Statement