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Add. MS a/202/41
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Letter from G. C. Churchill
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- 19 Sept. 1842 (Creation)
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3 pp
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Mary Gate, Nottingham - Hopes WW does not mind him requesting some help regarding his plan of studying history. He read with great interest WW's 'Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences' [1840]. Has not been able to fathom what WW's 'idea of a consistent connection between the sciences of thought[,] language and general history should be '. Gives WW a list of the sciences he wants to include in his work. Has not been able to find a contemporary treatise which classifies knowledge his way. Asks WW questions such as how the Palaetiological sciences should be classed and where the nature of historical evidence should be discussed?