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- 1831-1856 (Creation)
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10 folded sheets
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Amy F. Bull, granddaughter of Michael Angelo Atkinson.
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Gift of Miss Amy F. Bull, Feb. 1970.
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Five letters and one piece of humorous writing from the family of Michael Angelo Atkinson and Amelia Williams, with two letters from Adam Sedgwick in April 1856 about Atkinson and Williams' engagement, to Amelia Williams and to her mother Anna Williams. With two earlier letters: a report on Michael Angelo Atkinson by James Tate to Atkinson's father Peter, dated 12 Dec. 1831, and a letter from M. A. Atkinson at Trinity College to his sister Harriet about French literature. Two more items are written by Harriet Miller, the wife of William Hallowes Miller and a cousin? of the Williams family: one, a letter to her Aunt [Anna Williams?] includes a long description of the dinner held at Trinity College in honour of the Queen and Prince Albert on his installation as Chancellor of Cambridge University in July 1847; the other, a humorous essay about water closets and the loss of the garden privy.
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- Atkinson, Michael Angelo (c 1813-1890) Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, clergyman (Subject)
- Sedgwick, Adam (1785-1873), geologist (Subject)
- Atkinson, Amelia Elizabeth (b 1829) née Williams, wife of Michael Angelo Atkinson (Subject)
- Williams, Anna Maria (b 1783) née Price, mother of Amelia Elizabeth Atkinson (Subject)
- Miller, Harriet Susan (1811?-1907), wife of William Hallowes Miller (Subject)
- Miller, William Hallowes (1801-1880), mineralogist (Subject)
- Victoria (1819-1901), Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (Subject)
- Atkinson, Peter B (1781-1843) architect (Subject)
- Tate, James (1771-1843) headmaster (Subject)
- Atkinson, Martha Harriet (1820-1883) sister of Michael Angelo Atkinson (Subject)
- Albert (1819-1861), Prince Consort of Queen Victoria (Subject)