Item 77 - Copy of the will of Edward Gibbon

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/40/77

Title

Copy of the will of Edward Gibbon

Date(s)

  • [1890?] (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

4 sheets (the last headed notepaper for Trinity College, Cambridge).

Context area

Name of creator

Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
(1831-1914)

Repository

Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Content and structure area

Scope and content

In Aldis Wright's hand. Note at the bottom: "In the other copies of the Will the name of the last witness is ;J Satan' or 'F Satan' [?]."

Allied materials area

Related units of description

Items Add.MS.a/40/71-77 all found together in an envelope addressed to W. Aldis Wright at Beccles, Suffolk, postmarked Oct. 6 [18]90 and labelled 'Gibbon' in blue pencil. Seal in red wax on back of envelope, showing a garlanded head, in profile.

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