Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- [17th-19th cent.] (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bequest of William Whewell, 1866.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The second of two boxes of an autograph collection begun by Cordelia Whewell, and continued after her death, possibly by Lady Affleck, and William Whewell's executors.. The collection is described in the record for the first box, Add.MS.c.65. In this box,… read more
Allied materials area
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.
Archivist's note
The preliminary item records were added in 2020 by Diana Smith using the index entitled "Report on the papers of William Whewell" compiled by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 1973.