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R./6.11/13-14 · Unidad documental simple · Jan., May 1835
Parte de Manuscripts in Wren Class R

Copy of the letter dated 26 Dec. 1834 concerns his tour of German architecture and carries a note from Rickman to Whewell at the end dated 5 Jan. 1835. The letter dated 6 May 1835 concerns his architectural tour of the Continent.

Letter from William Twopeny
Add. MS a/213/175 · Unidad documental simple · 27 Mar. 1844
Parte de Additional Manuscripts a

WT sends WW three possible designs for Thomas Rickman's monument. The committee are unanimous in selecting number two.

William Whewell to Richard Jones
Add. MS c/51/219 · Unidad documental simple · 20 Nov. 1842
Parte de Additional Manuscripts c

Trinity College - WW recollects RJ agreeing with WW 'that Rickman [Thomas Rickman] was the man of genius among the modern writers on architecture'. Will RJ subscribe to a monument in his honour.

William Whewell to Richard Jones
Add. MS c/51/8 · Unidad documental simple · [1 Sept. 1821]
Parte de Additional Manuscripts c

London - John Herschel was late in writing because he was hoping to meet WW and RJ in person. WW just caught him 'as he was going to see Davy [Humphry Davy] make some experiments on galvanism which are odd enough'. WW picked up a copy of Rickman [Thomas Rickman, 'An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation', 1817] for RJ from Taylor's architectural library in Holborn: 'I think you will find it worth cramming - and for the furtherance of your future theory of the origin of pointed architecture I picked up some views of Peterborough which I found and which will show your favourite Basilica on a large scale'.