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Reference code
MSPB/55
Title
Draft of a letter from William Whewell to a member of the Council of the Society of Arts
Date(s)
- 26 Nov. 1851 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 sheet
Context area
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Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bequest of William Whewell, 1866.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Trinity Lodge, Cambridge - Regrets he cannot give a lecture on the Great Exhibition and its effects on the future as he has not been one of its organisers, who will have a better idea of its effects; believes that Prince Albert only meant to describe the… read more
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Tipped in before Whewell's Inaugural lecture, November 26, 1851 : the general bearing of the Great Exhibition on the progress of art and science (S.l., [1851]), shelfmark 266.c.80.96[16].