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Abbreviations
You can try using these abbreviations in your searches:
- ACE
- Automatic Computing Engine
- AL
- autograph letter
- ALS
- autograph letter signed
- AMS
- autograph manuscript
- AMT
- Alan Mathison Turing
- APCS
- autograph postcard signed
- c.
- circa
- CSAC
- Contemporary Scientific Archives Centre
- CTL
- carbon typed letter
- CTS
- carbon typescript
- KCC
- King's College, Cambridge
- LMS
- London Mathematical Society
- MS
- manuscript
- MSS
- manuscripts
- n.d.
- no date
- no.
- number
- NPL
- National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex
- n.y.
- no year
- p.m.
- postmark
- R.S.
- References to the bibliography provided by M.H.A. Newman in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society (Vol. 1, Nov. 1955, p.263). A copy is catalogued as A/36
- sh.
- sheet(s)
- TLS
- typed letter signed
- TPCS
- typed postcard signed
- TS
- typescript
- vol.
- volume
