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Add. MS c/1/161-174
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Letters to Joseph Edleston
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- 19th c. (Creation)
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21 pieces
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(1816-1895)
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Gift of D. E. Roders, Jan. 1965.
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Thirteen letters: four from C. W. King, three from Robert Potts, two from Edmund Beckett Denison [later Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe], one each from [Francis] Martin, Charles Musgrave, R. F. Scott, and Edward Meredith Cope. Several letters refer to the death of William Whewell and his bequest to the College. In addition, there is one printed letter circulated for the Fellows only from Francis Martin dated 3 Dec. 1857.
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- King, Charles William (1818-1888), writer on gemstones (Subject)
- Potts, Robert (1804-1885), mathematician (Subject)
- Martin, Francis (1802-1868), Senior Bursar of Trinity College Cambridge (Subject)
- Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science (Subject)
- Musgrave, Charles (fl 1861) (Subject)
- Scott, Sir Robert Forsyth (1849-1933) Knight, master of St John's College Cambridge (Subject)
- Cope, Edward Meredith (1818-1873), classical scholar (Subject)
- Beckett, Edmund (1816-1905), 1st Baron Grimthorpe, ecclesiastical controversialist, architect, and horologist (Subject)