Item 40 - Letter from Thomas Frankland Lewis

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Letter from Thomas Frankland Lewis

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  • 4 Apr. 1840 (Creation)

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8 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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Neither TFL or his son could think of any other name connected with painted glass manufacture at Munich than that of Boisseree [Sulpiz Boiserée]. An application to him should be successful: 'the Colour of the Bavarian glass is so superior to any made in England that it [is] quite worth while to incur some trouble and expense in obtaining it'. TFL thanks WW for a copy of his the Isle of Sirens [1840]: 'why is it that the English language surrenders itself so unwillingly to Hexameter verse?'.

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