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Extracted from Sraffa 2542-3

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).

Kirkaldy. Apologises for the letter sent the previous day

The title cited is from the title-page. The volume is labelled on the spine ‘St. Simon | Nouvelle Encyclopédie | MSS.‘, and on the front ‘L.D.L.S.’ The written leaves are numbered in the bottom right-hand corner from ‘d.73’ to ‘d.224’.

The numbered papers are a.96-7, a.35-40, a.62-95 (with a blank unnumbered leaf between a.64 and a.65), a.31-2, a.41-51 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.14, a.109-14, a.98-108, d.3-8, a.131-2 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), d.9-69 (followed by two blank unnumbered leaves), a.115-16, a.126-7, a.119-22, a.117-18, a.124 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.130, a.128-9, a.123 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), a.212-25, a.233-45 (a.235 appears to have been missed out by mistake), d.70 (a printed leaf, joined to three unnumbered printed leaves), a.2-7, a.9-12, a.8, a.13 (followed by a blank unnumbered leaf), and a.15.

The headings which occur among these papers include the following:

‘Lettre. | Aux Dames’ (a.96)

‘Lettre aux Dames’ (a.35)

‘Lettres des | Deux Philantropes’ (a.62)

‘Aux Savants | Sur la Perfectibilite de LEsprit humain’ (a.41)

‘Chapitre second | sur la perfectibilité indefinie’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘dixieme époque | des progrès futurs de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘aux Savans | Sur la perfectibilité de l’ésprit humain’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘Sur la philosophie’ (a.109)

‘Mon opinion | ou | Esquisse | d'un rapport sur l'affaire générale’ (a.98)

‘Introduction | aux | Travaux Scientifiques | du | Dix-neuvieme Siécle’ (d.3)

‘Observations générales | sur la 1re classe | des travaux Scientifiques du 18e Siécle’ (a.131)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques du | 19eme Siecle’ (unnumbered sheet)

‘introduction | aux travaux Scientifiques | du 19eme Siecle’ (d.9)

‘Premiere Partie | Livre premier | de l'univers’ (a.115)

‘Chapitre second | Considerations metaphysiques’ (a.128)

‘Chapitre troisieme | des taches du soleil’ (a.125)

‘Prospectus | d'un nouveau cours d'études Normales’ (a.212)

‘Physiques des Corps organisés | introduction’ (a.213)

‘Lettres | de | C.-H. Saint-Simon’ (printed) (d.70)

Belfast. Repudiates his attack on a banking house in Belfast

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.

Normandy Farm. Surplus of cabbages, wants to sell them in Guilford, requires epsom salts

The first two of five boxes containing letters from William Whewell to his family, Add.MS.c.191-193, arranged roughly chronologically.

58 letters addressed to "My dear sister".

Belvedere, Earith. Comments on the wanton demoltion of houses which could be used for the poor

Sends Royal Society address, has had a slight "attack", the use of iron in warships

Stafford House. Appreciates NWS's ability to impart information, worried about the health of his brother. [incomplete]

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

The Grove. Has returned journal, conversation with E J Erle

The third and fourth boxes of five containing letters from William Whewell to his family (Add.MS.c.191-193), arranged roughly chronologically.

The fifth of five boxes containing letters from William Whewell to his family (Add.MS.c.191-193), arranged roughly chronologically.