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A journal of Whewell's daily work as Master of Trinity College. Item 1 is the journal, and items 2-9 are letters which are believed to have been found laid in loose to the volume.

This is volume one of a two volume set of copies of William Whewell's correspondence (see vol. II, O.15.47) gathered by Isaac Todhunter for his William Whewell, D.D. Master of Trinity College Cambridge. An account of his writings with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, 2 vols. Many of the copies are not in Todhunter's hand, but some carry his notes. The source of the original letters is not always noted.
A note on letters used by Mrs Stair Douglas is laid in loose at the front of the volume.

This is volume two of a two volume set of copies of William Whewell's correspondence and related papers (see vol. II, O.15.46) gathered by Isaac Todhunter for his William Whewell, D.D. Master of Trinity College Cambridge. An account of his writings with selections from his literary and scientific correspondence London: Macmillan and Co., 1876, 2 vols. The copies are in Todhunter's hand. The source of the original letters is not given.

Items 1-57 are letters from 1846. Items 58-84 are letters from Whewell to Adam Sedgwick dated 1828-1843, with one letter from Sedgwick dated 1845. These are accompanied by over thirty miscellaneous lists of books.

An undated finding aid to some of the Whewell papers in Trinity College Library, with descriptions of papers as they were found in Box A (now Add.MS.a.51-69) with general descriptions as well as more detailed descriptions of some papers, all in D. A. Winstanley's hand. Accompanied by a 16 pp. typescript outline of the papers by Walter F. Cannon describing their arrangement in July 1961.

A finding aid to the Whewell papers in Trinity College Library, with the names of correspondents and the descriptions of parcels in which they were found. This finding aid was superseded by the "Report on the papers of William Whewell" compiled by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 1973 and the current catalogue records in Trinity's archival database.