Item 65 - Letter from Alexander Wilcocks to William Whewell

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Letter from Alexander Wilcocks to William Whewell

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  • 11 Oct. 1855 (Creation)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Bequest of William Whewell, 1866.

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Queen's Hotel, No. 71, Queen's Road, Bayswater, London -- Sends the book and asks for assistance in obtaining a copy of an elementary treatise on the tides by 'Lubock' or 'Luccock', as he has seen it variously spelled [William Lubbock]; is about to return to America.

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      Tipped onto the verso of the free front endpaper of Alexander Wilcocks' An Essay on the Tides (Philadelphia, 1855), Trinity Library shelfmark 2.c.85.74.

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