William Whewell letters to his family
- Add. MS a/273
- Bestanddeel
- 1815-1823
Part of Additional Manuscripts a
William Whewell letters to his family
Part of Additional Manuscripts a
Ann Whewell letters received from William Whewell, Cordelia Whewell, and Frances Affleck
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
The third and fourth boxes of five containing letters from William Whewell to his family (Add.MS.c.191-193), arranged roughly chronologically.
Newton, Ann (c 1801-1879) sister of William Whewell
W. Aldis Wright: Bible Revision (correspondence and notes)
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Correspondence, notes, and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Includes correspondence from: S. R. Driver; F. J. A. Hort; W. F. Moulton, J. Troutbeck, Maxwell Ben-Oliel; Connop Thirwell, G. C.M. Douglas, Frederick Field, John Dury Geden and Charles Kingsley along with several copies/drafts of letters by W. Aldis Wright to others. Notes by William Barnes; R. L. Bensly, Schiller-Szinessy, William Selwyn, and others. Includes material on the disposition of the remaining funds after the completion of the project.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Bible Revision (correspondence)
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Correspondence, notes, and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Some letters addressed to the Dean of Westminster, A. P. Stanley; to Canon Selwyn, and to others. Includes letters from: Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's; G. C. M. Douglas; E. H. Browne, Bishop of Ely then of Winchester; Frederick Field; John Dury Geden; A. P. Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff; Hormuzd Rassam; William Selwyn; J. Troutbeck; Duncan H. Weir, James Cartmell; Bartholomew Price; Philip Schaff. Several copies/drafts of letters by W. Aldis Wright to others. Much material regarding the relationship between the British and American Revision Committees.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Bible Revision (notes and correspondence)
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Notes, correspondence and printed material largely relating to W. Aldis Wright's work as Secretary of the Old Testament Revision Company. Includes letters from: Bartholomew Price; the Bishop of St David's [Basil Jones]; the Bishop of Llandaff [Alfred Ollivant], two Bishops of Winchester [Harold Browne and Samuel Wilberforce) and the Bishop of St Andrew's, Dunkeld and Dunblane [Charles Wordsworth]. Draft letters from Wright to R. A. [?] Massie and the editor of the Rock. Printed correspondence, members lists etc of the Old and New Testament Revision Companies. Notes on the Psalms, the Athanasian Creed, 'The Rephaim and other giant races of Scripture' [no 44] etc.
Also present: what purports to be a frontispiece to the Coverdale Bible of 1535, with an engraved portrait of Coverdale 'from a Drawing in the Possession of Dr Gifford' [from Erasmus Middleton's Biographia evangelica of 1816?] and a copy of 'Coverdale's Dedication' and 'Myles Coverdale unto the Christen Reader' [from Bagster's 1838 printing?]. A note in Philip Gaskell's hand judges the frontispiece to be 'slightly fishy: cd be a block printed on old paper'.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Shakespeariana (printed material, notes and correspondence)
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Predominantly printed material: extracts from journals and newspapers; prefaces; programmes and dinner menus of Shakespeare societies; examination papers; printed correspondence (including between J. O. Halliwell-Philipps and Robert Browning regarding the New Shakspeare Society); frontispiece purportedly from the 1599 edition of Venus and Adonis probably from the 1879 Sotheran facsimile edition. Letters from P. Lyttelton Gell, George Litting, Henry Weston Eve and John Doran.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Shakespeariana (notes and correspondence)
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Notes on Shakespeare by W. Aldis Wright, Sir Philip Perring, Albert Matthews, George Parker, H. P. Stokes, Eduard Thiessen and G. O. Wray. Printed reply by Edward H. Pickersgill to a paper by James Spedding, interleaved with Spedding's MS comments.
Letters (some of those without stated address perhaps originally sent to W. G. Clark) including correspondence from P. A. Daniel, W. G. Fletcher, F. J. Furnivall, R. Markham Hill, C. M. Ingleby; also some draft letters from W. Aldis Wright to various correspondents.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Shakespeariana (correspondence and notes)
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Letters, from both scholars and members of the public, regarding W. Aldis Wright's editions of Shakespeare (including collaborations with W. G. Clark) as well as notes on the texts and suggested emendations. Some letters with no addressee may have been written to W. G. Clark. Correspondents include E. B. Cowell, F. J. Furnivall, C. M. Ingleby, H.A.J. Munro, W. W. Skeat, Duncan Tovey, and the 8th Duke of Devonshire. Some notes by Julius Lloyd and Lionel Booth.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
W. Aldis Wright: Shakespeariana (notes and correspondence)
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Letters relating to W. Aldis Wright's editions of Shakespeare (including collaborations with W. G. Clark) as well as notes on the texts and suggested emendations. Some letters addressed to W. G. Clark; several letters with no addressee may have originally been directed to him). Many letters from C. M. Ingleby and Brinsley Nicholson. A leather book binding, separated from its contents and in three pieces, is in the box [pencil note on inside front cover reads 'Add.MS.b.58 69-217]; the spine is stamped 'Shakespeare. Dyce 8', perhaps suggesting that some of the notes are by Alexander Dyce.
Wright, William Aldis (1831-1914), literary and biblical scholar
Letter from Lord Clarendon to Nassau William Senior
The Grove. Has returned journal, conversation with E J Erle
Letter from Lady Pembroke to Nassau William Senior
Letter from Lord Sutherland to Nassau William Senior
Stafford House. Appreciates NWS's ability to impart information, worried about the health of his brother. [incomplete]
Letter from Sir John Hudson to Nassau William Senior
Has kept journals overlong, passed them on to Cavour, Thiers and Guizo, Italy will be able to hold her own against France in three years
Letter from Lord Ross to Nassau William Senior
Sends Royal Society address, has had a slight "attack", the use of iron in warships
Letter from Thomas Spring-Rice, Lord Monteagle to Nassau William Senior
Belvedere, Earith. Comments on the wanton demoltion of houses which could be used for the poor
Letter from William Cobbett to Mr Guttrell
Normandy Farm. Surplus of cabbages, wants to sell them in Guilford, requires epsom salts
Letter from William Cobbett to John Yonge Akerman
Kensington. Will call on him the following day.
Letter from 'Your Constant Reader' to William Cobbett
Belfast. Repudiates his attack on a banking house in Belfast
Transcript and notes relating to SRMS B4/1-2
Letter from Adam Smith to William Strahan
Kirkaldy. Apologises for the letter sent the previous day
Rates of importation and exportation of Mr. Worsnam
Extracted from Sraffa 2542-3
Letters replying to invitations to Trinity College feasts
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
146 letters, most of them replies to invitations to dinner, with a few concerning arrangements to stay in rooms in College for the night, sent to the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, or specifically to Henry Montagu Butler, John Walton Capstick, Hugh McLeod Innes, or William Aldis Wright. An original letter of invitation may be found as part of item 65.
Thirteen of the letters concern other matters related to Trinity College business, as described below.
Items 9-11: Blomfield, Sir Arthur William. Asks to use the College Hall for lunch for the Royal Academy Club annual excursion, June 1899
Item 19: Dalzell, Robert Harris Carnwath, 11th Earl of Carnwath. 7 Jan. 1899. Remittance for fees, deducting a fine incurred by his son which should be paid for by the culprit
Item 40: Devonshire, Duke of. Undated. Contribution to the Trinity College, Cambridge Mission Appeal.
Items 61-62: Jebb, Sir Richard Claverhouse. 1896, 1898. Encloses payment for his subscription to the Trinity College Mission and the Cambridge House
Item 84: Parry, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings, 1st Baronet. 1898. Encloses payment for dues
Items 100-101: Sidgwick, Eleanor Mildred. 25 Mar. and 1 May 1899, encloses lists of students and other women from Newnham who would like to attend the Rayleigh lecture
Item 108: Stanton, Vincent Henry. 3 Sept. n.y. Concerning the opening times of the Trinity College Library
Item 123: Webster, Richard Everard, 1st Viscount Alverstone. 19 July 1897. Encloses cheque for subscription.
Item 125: Westlake, John. 28 Nov. 1898. To Capstick, asks for questions from the General Question paper
One letter appears to be personal, not Trinity College business: item 90, sent to John William Capstick by Georg Hermann Quincke 15 July 1896, who writes about electric currents, citing articles, and describing his overcrowded laboratory (in German).
Correspondence between William Whewell and Michael Faraday
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class O
Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
William Whewell papers: Robert Leslie Ellis letters and writings and Ellis family letters
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
Miscellaneous manuscript fragments removed from books in Trinity College Library
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
36 fragments, eight of them carrying notes as to which volumes they had been removed from. The group include two English fragments of the versified life of St Catherine (items 1-2), a 13th century fragment from the end of the Joseph story of the Poème Anglo-Normand sur l'Ancien Testament, removed from shelfmark K.3.77 (item 3), two fragments from the Avignon Selichot (items 7-8), two fragments from a medical text in Latin (items 9-10), a fragment on civil and canon law (item 17), and a fragment removed from Dr Hooke's papers carrying the header "Regulae Cromocritica de [Urina?]" inscribed by W. Derham as "Turkish writings & other Rhapsodical Receipts" (item 23).
William Whewell letters and printed material received
Part of Manuscripts in Wren Class R
A collection of some of the printed material and letters received by Whewell between 1819 to 1833, of which the materials relating to the Cambridge elections of 1829 and 1830 form a part.
Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
William Whewell letters to John Whewell, Alice Lyon, and Elizabeth, Martha, and Ann Whewell
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
The first two of five boxes containing letters from William Whewell to his family, Add.MS.c.191-193, arranged roughly chronologically.
Newton, Ann (c 1801-1879) sister of William Whewell
Ann Whewell letters received from William Whewell and Frances Affleck, with miscellaneous letters
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
The fifth of five boxes containing letters from William Whewell to his family (Add.MS.c.191-193), arranged roughly chronologically.
Newton, Ann (c 1801-1879) sister of William Whewell
William Whewell letters to his sister Ann Whewell
Part of Additional Manuscripts c
58 letters addressed to "My dear sister".
Newton, Ann (c 1801-1879) sister of William Whewell