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Autograph Letter Signed, to Mr. Watkins, asking him to fulfil the order, but “I do not want the wooden lenses now”. 1 page, 9 x 7 inches, folds, tears at all corners where removed from mount. Oxford, 18 May 1836. Stephen Peter Rigaud (1774 – 1839) was an English mathematical historian and astronomer. He was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford from 1794 to 1810, held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1810 to 1827, and was Savilian Professor of Astronomy from 1827 to 1839.