Pièce 496 - William Whewell collection of passports and printed ephemera from Continental trips, with other printed material

Zone d'identification

Cote

Add. MS a/496

Titre

William Whewell collection of passports and printed ephemera from Continental trips, with other printed material

Date(s)

  • 1820-1839 (Production)

Niveau de description

Pièce

Étendue matérielle et support

1 vol.

Zone du contexte

Nom du producteur

(1794-1866)

Notice biographique

William Whewell was born in Lancaster on 24 May 1794, son of John Whewell, master carpenter. Whewell's talents were spotted by Joseph Rowley, Master of Lancaster Grammar School, who offered to teach him for free. When John Hudson, a Fellow of Trinityread more

Histoire archivistique

Originally shelved with printed books in the library and reassigned to Add.MS.a in 2005.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

Bequest of William Whewell, 1866.

Zone du contenu et de la structure

Portée et contenu

A bound volume with 44 items tipped in, many of them collected during trips to the Continent and an 1825 visit to Vienna in particular. Eight passports for Whewell are dated 1820-1839, and are accompanied by playbills, handbills, museum and galleryread more

Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation

Language of material

  • anglais
  • français
  • allemand

Zone des sources complémentaires

Related units of description

Forms part of the papers of William Whewell, housed under a variety of numbers in Additional Manuscripts a and c and Wren classes O and R. The collection is described briefly with all component parts listed in the collection level record linked below.

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