Manuscripts in Wren Class R

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24 Two poems by [F. M.?], 8 years old Part June 1849
25 Friedrich Schiller’s “Hoffnung” in an unidentified hand Part [19th cent.]
33 William Wordsworth’s “Poem on a Daisy casting its shadow on Loughrigg Fell” copied by Cordelia Whewell Part 4 Nov. 1844
34 Edward Forbes’ “The Story of the Dodo - by the President of the Ashmolean Society”, unsigned Part [19th cent.]
36-38 “Epitaph in Lowestoft Church” three copies by an unidentified person Part [19th cent.]
15 Letter from Henry Hallam Item 30 Jan. 1846
17 Notes on the proof sheets by Thomas Flower Ellis Item [1845?]
21-24 Letter from John Thomas Graves with notes on the proof sheets Item 11-26 Mar. 1845
26 Letter from Richard Jones Item [19th cent.]
No. 4 ‘The Institution of Chivalry was generally beneficial to Europe’, an English declamation by W. J. Bankes Part 1805
No. 7 ‘Charles the first was not justified in putting to Death the Earl of Strafford’, an English declamation by Lewis Bowerbank Part 1801
No. 11 ‘Oliver Cromwell would have consulted his interest by accepting the Crown’, an English declamation by James Cairncross Part 1804
2-3 On the results of observations made with a new anemometer Item 1837
1 Isaac Todhunter's list of the anemometer papers Item [c 1873]
4 Draft, "On the working of the anemometer since the account given to the Society May 1, 1837" Item May 1839
57 Letter from Alexander William Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres Item 6 May 1862
79 Printer's copy of Goethe's Herman and Dorothea translated by Whewell Item [1850?]
53 Letter from Hudson Gurney Item 14 Apr. 1839
71 Pamphlet, On the theory of the English hexameter, and its applicability to the translation of Homer by Lord Lindsay Item 1862
61 Letter from I. C. Wright Item 21 Dec. 1861
63 Pamphlet, Further thoughts on English prosody by John T. Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale Item 1859
62 Pamphlet, The walk, translated in the original metre from the German of F. Schiller Item [1845?]
59 Letter from Aubrey Taylor Item 10 May 1862
42 Letter from "An admirer of hexameters" Item 27 Oct. 1846
16-22 Letters from Edward Craven Hawtrey Item 1846-1847
43 Letter from Sir E. H. Alderson Item 27 Jan. [18--]
5 Drafts of writings on the history of science, with other miscellaneous notes Item [19th cent.]
3 Draft, "Of the undulatory theory of Light" Item [1833?]
6 Draft of three sections of an outlined "The Philosophy of the Pure Sciences" Item 1833-[1834]
10-13 Notes and drafts of a work on the history of the philosophy of science Item 1830-[1832?]