File 273 - William Whewell letters to his family

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Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS a/273

Title

William Whewell letters to his family

Date(s)

  • 1815-1823 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

1 box

Context area

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Purchased from Maurice Dodd (Bookseller), 1982.

Conditions of access and use area

Finding aids

A list of the chronological order of Whewell's letters to his family in Add.MS.c.190-193, and Add.MS.a.273 has been scanned and attached to this record.

Allied materials area

Existence and location of copies

Some of these letters are extracted in Add.MS.a.301/2: Extracts from letters and diaries of William Whewell, with a MS poem, "On receiving a chain of Hair".

Related units of description

See also the William Whewell papers, which comprise those papers given as a bequest by Whewell to Trinity College Library and contains letters written by Ann Whewell, and other letters from Whewell to his father and sisters housed as Add.MS.c.190-193.

Access points

Archivist's note

The item records were created from a partial listing of the Whewell papers produced by William J. Ashworth in 1994-1996. These entries were emended by Diana Smith in 2020.