Identity area
Reference code
MSPB/43
Title
Letter from R. Gwatkin to William Whewell
Date(s)
- 2 Nov. [1841?] (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 folded sheet
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bequest of William Whewell, 1866.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Barrow Vicarage - Presenting a work in which he attempts to reconcile 'modern geology and the scriptural account of the creation, as given in Genesis 1'; congratulates him on becoming Master of Trinity.
Notes area
Note
Tipped on to the title page of Gwatkin's An exposition of the first chapter of Genesis (London, 1842), shelfmark 164.c.84.23[7].