Editing Ada Lovelace (section)

==Publications==
* Lovelace, Ada King. ''Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers: A Selection from the Letters of Lord Byron's Daughter and her Description of the First Computer''. Mill Valley, CA: Strawberry Press, 1992. {{ISBN|978-0-912647-09-8}}.
*{{cite book |last1=Menabrea |first1=Luigi Federico |last2=Lovelace |first2=Ada |editor=Richard Taylor |title=Scientific Memoirs |date=1843 |volume=3 |pages=666–731 |chapter=Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage... with notes by the translator. Translated by Ada Lovelace |chapter-url=http://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529203029/https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html |archive-date=29 May 2023 |location=London |publisher=Richard and John E. Taylor}}
**Also available on Wikisource: [[wikisource:Scientific Memoirs/3/Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq.|The Menebrea article]], [[wikisource:Scientific Memoirs/3/Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq./Notes by the Translator|The notes by Ada Lovelace.]]

=== Publication history ===

Six copies of the 1843 first edition of ''Sketch of the Analytical Engine'' with Ada Lovelace's "Notes"<ref name="fourmilab.ch" /> have been located. Three are held at Harvard University, one at the University of Oklahoma, and one at the United States Air Force Academy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990030757610203941/catalog |title=Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq. |website=Harvard University Library |access-date=9 April 2019}}</ref> On 20 July 2018, the sixth copy was sold at auction to an anonymous buyer for £95,000.<ref>{{Cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010011141/https://www.mooreallen.co.uk/group/news-events/rare-book-by-worlds-first-computer-programmer-sells-for-95000 |archive-date=10 October 2018 |url=https://www.mooreallen.co.uk/group/news-events/rare-book-by-worlds-first-computer-programmer-sells-for-95000 |title=Rare book by world's first computer programmer sells for £95,000 |date=23 July 2018 |website=mooreallen.co.uk |access-date=9 April 2019}}</ref> A digital facsimile of one of the copies in the Harvard University Library is available online.

In December 2016, a letter written by Ada Lovelace was forfeited by [[Martin Shkreli]] to the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance for unpaid taxes owed by Shkreli.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mangan |first=Dan |date=23 April 2018 |title=Fight brews over Shkreli's Wu-Tang album as 'pharma bro' gets banned by securities industry |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/23/fight-brews-over-shkrelis-wu-tang-album-as-he-gets-banned-by-securities-industry.html |access-date=23 June 2020 |website=CNBC}}</ref>