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Most of the items included in this category are letters, and most are connected with the publications into which they are inserted.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge
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Most of the items included in this category are letters, and most are connected with the publications into which they are inserted.
Trinity College Library, Cambridge
Letter from E. C. Hawtrey to William Whewell
Part of Manuscripts in Printed Books
Forwards the verses and addresses in the pamphlet and mentions English stanzas identified in manuscript on the page as by William Johnson (later Cory), and also praises the second English address by [Herbert John] Reynolds KS (King's Scholar). Is happy to find that he will soon be able to make mathematics "an integral part of our system, King's College has smoothed my way".
Hawtrey, Edward Craven (1789–1862), headmaster
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(Marked by Greg, ‘See Duff’s letter’, i.e. MSPB 24.)
Part of a letter to W. W. Greg
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Letter from C. T. Onions to Sir Walter Greg
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Postcard from Willi Bang to W. W. Greg
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(Undated. Postmarked 29(?) Jan. 1905.)
Photograph of Alfred W. Pollard on the beach
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Part of a letter from Allan H. Stevenson to W. W. Greg
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(Place of writing not indicated.)—Discusses watermarks in quartos in the Huntington Library.
Photograph of a view of the Cam through a gate in the cloisters of Trinity College
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Part of Manuscripts in Printed Books
Longmans, Green, & Co., 6 & 7 Clifford Street, London, W.1.—They cite a review of V. L. Griffith's Experiments in Education.
Transcript of an entry in a Stationers’ Register, dated 17 Feb. 1606
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(Letter-head of the Houghton Library.)
Letter from J. F. Ferrier to [William Whewell]
Part of Manuscripts in Printed Books
Thanks him for the examination questions. Is glad that Mr Grote thinks the Institutes is worthy of contributing something to the field of study.
Letter from Dr Guggenbuhl to [William Whewell]
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Presentation letter.
Letter from Edward Tagart to William Whewell
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Bayswater, 33 Porchester Terrace - Encloses his review, is sorry to see the great philosophers of one hundred years ago so undervalued and unappreciated.
Letter from H. S. [Henry Sykes?] Thornton to William Whewell
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Birchin Lane - Sends the printed letter as showing 'how little reason there is for some of the objections raised by Keble & others against his bill'.
Letter from J. W. Wilkins to William Whewell
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Oxford & Camb Club, Pall Mall - Presents his pamphlet; the 'Government Bill seems aimed against every Liberal Interest & among other evils, it would, I think, extinguish academical representation & place the elections entirely in the hands of the proverbial clergy.'
Note from Cornelius Gulielmus Opzoomer to William Whewell
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Presentation note.
Letter from George Boole to William Whewell
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Lincoln - Is sending a copy of his book on the suggestion of Augustus De Morgan; includes errata list.
Letter from J. W. Wilkins to William Whewell
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64 Pall Mall - Sends the essay, written to dispel the author's misconceptions of political and military history, thanks him for his support of his application to an India examinership, which was not successful.
Letter from J. W. Wilkins to William Whewell
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Presentation letter.
Letter from Sylvain Van de Weyer to William Whewell
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Presentation letter.
Letter from H. F. Talbot to William Whewell
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Lacock - Is not able to offer any introductions at Rome, for the only family he knows of is that of Mrs John Spedding; encloses the remarks on Assyrian inscriptions he could not find when he last wrote; has been conducting mathematical researches, thought he had found a clue to the solution of Fermat's theorem, which he discusses and which he sent on to Professor Kelland, who admired it.
Letter from Chas. B. Scott to William Whewell
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19 Dean's Yard, Westmr. S.W. - Describes a 'disorderly scene' in [Westminster] School on Shrove Tuesday, 'the Cook having failed for 3 years to throw the pancake over the bar'; has written a poem about the ensuing fracas, a revised version of which he is sending Whewell.
Letter from G. Alan Lowndes to William Whewell
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Letter referring to the report of the various arguments against the new educational code, which will affect training colleges 'to a very great degree'.
Letter from J. F. Denham to William Whewell
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Presentation letter.
Letter from Ferdinand Gasc to William Whewell
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Presentation letter.
Letter from H. Goodwin to [William Whewell]
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Cambridge - He assured the Vice-Chancellor there would be nothing of an acrimonious character in the pamphlet when it was proposed, and hopes he has 'redeemed his pledge.'
Draft of a letter from William Whewell to a member of the Council of the Society of Arts
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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 type of person to give the lecture, not to point to Whewell specifically.