Stokes, Sir George Gabriel (1819-1903), mathematician and physicist

11 letters by Stokes, autograph (except for no. 9, which is typewritten) and signed (except for no. 11, which is in the third person), formerly held in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence. Correspondents include Edmund Belfour of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (nos. 1-3), the botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) (no. 8) and Admiral Sir George H. Richards F.R.S. (no. 9).

1850-1889

11 items

Purchased from: R.V. Westcott, May 1927 (acc.45498); Stevens, London, January 1929 (acc.74959) and March 1931 (acc.68133); Sotheby's, London, July 1931 (acc.57468) and November 1933 (acc.67469); Mrs. Watson, Burnley, March 1945 (acc.72200), presumably once part of the Thomas Madden Stone autograph collection. Provenance details of no.4 not recorded (acc.67430); no accession details noted for no.9.

Stokes developed Lagrange's theory of the motion of fluids and researched into optics.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts