Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1815-1823 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
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.
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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.