Documento 200 - William Whewell letters received: Airy to Barlow

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Código de referência

Add. MS a/200

Título

William Whewell letters received: Airy to Barlow

Data(s)

  • 1823-1866, [18--] (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Documento

Dimensão e suporte

1 box

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Nome do produtor

(1794-1866)

História biográfica

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

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Âmbito e conteúdo

The first of fifteen boxes of incoming correspondence (Add.MS.a.200-214), arranged roughly A-Z by correspondent.

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Instrumentos de descrição

Isaac Todhunter's Catalogue of Dr Whewell's Papers (Add.MS.a.70) includes summaries of letters in this box.

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Unidades de descrição relacionadas

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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Nota

Item 32 was noted as missing when this collection was re-catalogued 12 May 1971.
Items 1-191 formerly shelved as O.18.A1/1-191.
Items 192-226 formerly shelved as O.18.B1/1-34.

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Previous shelfmark

O.18.A1/1-188

Previous shelfmark

O.18.B1/1-34

Nota do arquivista

The item records were added in 2020 by Diana Smith using a partial listing of the Whewell papers produced by William J. Ashworth in 1994-1996. Some information was drawn from the index entitled "Report on the papers of William Whewell" compiled by theread more