Manuscripts in Wren Class R

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
f. 7r Account of work on the buildings and in the gardens of Blenheim Castle Part Feb. 1708
f. 8r Warrant, signed by King George III, for the payment of £12,957 5s. 8¾d. to Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Southampton, for the pay of the 3rd or King’s Own Regiment of Dragoons for a year to 24 Dec. 1791 Part 30 Mar. 1793
f. 9r Certified copy of a contract between Louis Arcambal, Vice-Consul of the French Republic, and Francis Lewis Taney, merchant of New York, for the supply of 200,000 lbs of sole leather Part 28 July 1794
f. 10r Certificate recording the presentation of Maître Loisel, attorney, at the Office of Presentations at Caen as the representative of Laurent David, adjudicataire des fermes, plaintiff, against Blocher, innkeeper, and his wife; signed Torcapel Part 20 June 1775
47 Letter from Joseph Henry Dart Item 2 Feb. 1865
50-52 Letters from Alexander Campbell Fraser Item Jan.-Apr. 1853
54-56 Letters from James Timothy Bainbridge Landon Item Apr.-Dec. 1862
5-12 Letters from John Gibson Lockhart Item 1846-1847
64 Pamphlets, Homer's Iliad, book first, translated into English hexameters by James Inglis Cochrane Item 1862
65-66 Pamphlets, Homer Iliad A [and B] literally translated into English hexameters by James T. B. Landon Item 1862-1863
67-69 Book I [and II] of the Iliad, translated in the hexameter metre with proof of Book I, by J. F. W. Herschel Item 1862
73-78 Pamphlets, The Iliad of Homer, faithfully rendered in Homeric verse from the original Greek Book I [II, III, IV, V] by Lancelot Shadwell Item 1844-1845
4 Miscellaneous notes, with draft of additions to the second edition of History of Inductive Sciences Item [c 1835-1847]
2 Draft, "The diffusion of the Copernican System" Item [c 1835?]
3 Notes on Francis Bacon Item [c 1835?]
13 Draft, "Book XV. Of the Methods of Induction" Item 11 Sept. 1838
16 Draft, "(Conjectural) View of Systems of Philosophy" Item [c 1835?]
20 Draft, "Chap 5. Attempts at more extensive applications of the Idea of Affinity" Item [c 1835?]
4 Miscellaneous verses not in Whewell's hand Item [19th cent.]
14 Draft and printed pamphlet, The isle of the sirens Item 1847
1 List of hexameters not in Whewell's hand by Isaac Todhunter Item Apr. 1874
6 Miscellaneous poems, dated Item 1809-1862
16 Printed pamphlet, A dialogue on the plurality of worlds; being a supplement to the essay on that subject Item [1854]
14 Extracts and notes on a variety of topics including light and optics, as well as Airy's mine experiement notes Item [c 1820s-1830s]
8 Draft, "The Philosophy of the Progressive Sciences" Item 1833 View
23 Miscellaneous mathematical problems Item [19th cent.]
24 Miscellaneous notes on botany Item [19th cent.]
17a Miscellaneous notes on theology Item [19th cent.]
14 List of papers made by Isaac Todhunter Item Mar. 1875
8 Draft, "The philosophy of the inductive sciences, founded upon their history, volume the first" Item 1839-[1840]