Documento 191 - William Whewell letters to John Whewell, Alice Lyon, and Elizabeth, Martha, and Ann Whewell

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Zona de identificação

Código de referência

Add. MS c/191

Título

William Whewell letters to John Whewell, Alice Lyon, and Elizabeth, Martha, and Ann Whewell

Data(s)

  • 1811–1840 (Produção)

Nível de descrição

Documento

Dimensão e suporte

2 boxes

Zona do contexto

História do arquivo

Discovered by W. G. Rimmer in the course of researches on the Marshall family of Leeds, apparently in an outbuilding of a Marshall house in the Lake District. Given to R. Robson at some point prior to 1964 for deposit in Trinity College Library andread more

Fonte imediata de aquisição ou transferência

Gift of Horace and T. H. Marshall via W. G. Rimmer and R. Robson, 1970.

Zona do conteúdo e estrutura

Âmbito e conteúdo

The first two of five boxes containing letters from William Whewell to his family, Add.MS.c.191-193, arranged roughly chronologically.

Zona de condições de acesso e utilização

Instrumentos de descrição

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.

Zona de documentação associada

Existência e localização de cópias

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".

Unidades de descrição relacionadas

See also Add.MS.c.192-193, and a related group of William Whewell letters to Ann Newton which arrived at the library via a different source, now housed as Add.MS.a.273. In addition, there are letters from Ann Newton in the William Whewell papersread more

Zona das notas

Nota

Four letters explaining provenance accompany the letters.

Pontos de acesso

Nota do arquivista

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.