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R./1.61
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Letters to William Whewell and Christopher Wordsworth
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- 1846-1860 (Creation)
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1 vol.
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Gift of William Aldis Wright? The letters were found in an envelope addressed to him and preserved at the back of the volume.
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Includes letters by J. O. Halliwell, J. M. Heath about the August 1846 storm in Cambridge, H. Montagu Butler about a bust of Archdeacon Hare, Vernon Musgrave about a memorial to Archbishop Musgrave, with a draft from William Whewell to Vernon Musgrave.
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This volume has been fully catalogued in the James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts: R.1.61
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See also the Papers of William Whewell for a description of more letters sent and received by William Whewell.
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- Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science (Subject)
- Wordsworth, Christopher (1774-1846), college head (Subject)
- Phillipps, James Orchard Halliwell- (1820-1889) Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and collector of childhood rhymes and stories (Subject)
- Heath, John Moore (1809-1882), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, clergyman (Subject)
- Butler, Henry Montagu (1833-1918), college head (Subject)
- Musgrave, Vernon (1831-1906) clergyman (Subject)
- Musgrave, Thomas (1788-1860), Archbishop of York (Subject)
- Hare, Julius Charles (1795–1855), author and Church of England clergyman (Subject)