Item 2 - Letter from William Atkinson to [William Whewell]

Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS c/75/2

Title

Letter from William Atkinson to [William Whewell]

Date(s)

  • 15 Sept. 1840 (Creation)

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Item

Extent and medium

2 pp.

Context area

Name of creator

(1794-1866)

Biographical history

William Whewell was born in Lancaster on 24 May 1794, son of John Whewell, master carpenter. Whewell's talents were spotted by Joseph Rowley, Master of Lancaster Grammar School, who offered to teach him for free. When John Hudson, a Fellow of Trinityread more

Archival history

Removed from Whewell's copy of Atkinson's Principles of political economy (London, 1840).

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