by18 June 1957
Trinity College
Cambridge
Sir James Trowbridge
No. 14 Berkeley Mews
London
My dear James,
I’m sorry to have lost touch with you over the past few years; we haven’t seen each other since the French War, back in 1948. Nine years! It doesn’t seem it.
I’ll tell you right off I want a favour of you. (No, I do not want to borrow another five shillings! I haven’t had my pocket picked again, thank you.) This has to do with a little historical research I’m doing here. I stumbled across something rather queer, and I’m hoping you can help me with it.
notI am enclosing copies of some old letters received by Isaac Newton nearly three hundred years ago. As you will notice, they are addressed to “Mr. Isaac Newton, A.B.”; it rings oddly on the ear to hear the great man addressed as
