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Stephen Inwood mentions manuscript primary sources for Hooke studies in the archives of the Royal Society, the British Library, the City of London, Oxford University, Trinity College Cambridge and the Mercers' Company (Inwood 2002, pp.471-2).
The following links lead to search results for the phrase "Robert Hooke" in some of these archives. It should be borne in mind that:
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There are also Hooke manuscripts in other collections, including:
The Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at University College London has digitized and transcribed extracts from the Royal Society's journal books, together with the rough minutes for the period of Hooke's secretaryship of the Society and a number of supplementary papers, which were found with the manuscript and include contemporary indexes. The folio comprises over 500 pages in all.
The recovery in 2006 of this material, previously thought lost, has been documented by Robyn Adams and Lisa Jardine:
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