WHWL*
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Fonds
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16th-19th c.
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, subject files, writings, other Whewell papers, family papers, and later papers of others. The family papers include those originally gathered by Whewell's first wife Cordelia (née Marshall) and his second wife Lady Affleck (née Ellis). The papers of Lady Affleck's brother and Whewell's friend Robert Leslie Ellis now form a subset of this collection. The collection is further described in the System of arrangement field below, and materials received by gift and by purchase are described in the Related units of description field below.
Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science