Item 37 - Letter from Benjamin Webb to [William Whewell]

Identity area

Reference code

O./11a.2/37

Title

Letter from Benjamin Webb to [William Whewell]

Date(s)

  • 14 Dec. 1857 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 folded sheet.

Context area

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Offering the remains of his father-in-law William Hodge Mill's collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, mostly on astronomical subjects, to Trinity.

Allied materials area

Related units of description

Add. MS. a/367 is a file of letters including William Whewell's reply to Webb, 18 Dec. 1857.
The Sanskrit MSS in the collection now have the shelfmarks R.15.60-R.15.146, see Aufrecht's catalogue, below, for further details.
Add.MS.a/617: Papers of Johnread more

Publication note

For a catalogue of the MSS see Aufrecht, A Catalogue of Sanskrit Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Cambridge and London, 1869.

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Alternative identifier(s)

Preferred form of reference

O.11.a.2/37

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