Item 75 - Letter from Richard Sheepshanks

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Add. MS a/213/75

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Letter from Richard Sheepshanks

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  • 13 Nov. 1826 (Creation)

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3 pp.

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Whewell, William (1794-1866), college head and writer on the history and philosophy of science
(1794-1866)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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RS has just had a letter from Simms [William Simms] requesting him to return the theodolite which WW and George Airy used in Cornwall: 'I informed him some time ago that it was so incomplete as not to answer my wants'. Will WW or Airy send it to him. RS's two sisters have gone to Bray therefore he has the house to himself - would WW like to stay? What has been done in University matters?

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