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Reports on the plans of the Earl of Macclesfield to sell its family's collection of Isaac Newton writings to the University of Cambridge in England. Concern of academics in the sale of the writings; Benefit of the acquisition for the university; Content of the Macclesfield papers.

Highlights the fund raising efforts of Cambridge University in England to purchase the Macclesfield Newton Collection, a collection of works of physicist Sir Isaac Newton. Selling price of the collection; Significance of the collection; Why the Macclesfield family is selling the collection.