Letter from Newton to Henry Oldenburg, dated 8 March 1672/3

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 9597/2/18/30, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

Published online: February 2013

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Cambridg.
March 8^th 167 $\frac{2}{3}$ .

S^r

I received both your letters & thank you for Heckers Mercurius in Sole. As for Mons^r Huygens Observations I conceive they are but the abstract of a private letter sent to you, & therefore concern not me to take notice of them. But yet if he expect an answer & intends y^t they should be made publick, I will return you my thoughts upon them if you please to send me the originall letter, & procure from M^r Huygens y^t I may have liberty to publish what passeth between us, if occasion be.

S^r I desire that you will procure that I may be put out from being any longer fellow of y^e R. Society. For though I honour that body, yet since I see I shall neither profit them, nor (by reason of this distance) receive any adv can partake of the advantage of their meetings Assembly|ie|s, I desire to withdraw. If you please to do me this favour you will oblige

S^r
Yo^r humble Servant

I. Newton

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I have presumed to put you once more to y^e trouble of receiving my quarterly duty as Fellow of the R. Society. At next Lady day I am behind hand for half a yeare, & have therefore sent you 1^lb 6^s by John Stiles. I hope you will excuse this trouble, it being the last. I shall be henceforth absent from Cambridg for about <30v> a month.

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These

For Henry Oldenburg Esqꝫ
at his hous about the middle of the
old Pall-Mail in Westminster

London

with 1^lb. 6^s. 0^d

|Rec.|

|send by Stils at y^e green Dragon in Bishops Gat on Thursday'|

|Answ. March 13. 1672. sent y^e original of M. Hugens letter of jan. 14. 167 $\frac{2}{3}$ . and y^e Transactions of Febr. 1672. and w^thall represented to him my being surprised at his resigning for no other cause, than his distance, w^ch he knew as well at the time of his election, offering w^thall my endeavor to take from him y^e trouble of sending hither his qterly paymts & without any reflection.|