Item 32 - Letter from Chas. B. Scott to William Whewell

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Reference code

MSPB/32

Title

Letter from Chas. B. Scott to William Whewell

Date(s)

  • 21 Mar. [1865] (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

1 folded sheet

Context area

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].

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