Identity area
Reference code
MSPB/32
Title
Letter from Chas. B. Scott to William Whewell
Date(s)
- 21 Mar. [1865] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 folded sheet
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Source of acquisition unknown. Possibly part of the bequest of William Whewell, 1866.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.
Notes area
Note
Tipped in after the title page of Mageiropaidomachia : in schola sancti petri Westmonasteriensis, prid. kal. mart. MDCCCLXV (S.l., [1865?]), shelfmark 72.c.85.8[24].