File 67 - William Whewell papers: Robert Leslie Ellis letters and writings and Ellis family letters

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Identity area

Reference code

Add. MS c/67

Title

William Whewell papers: Robert Leslie Ellis letters and writings and Ellis family letters

Date(s)

  • 1800-1866 (Creation)

Level of description

File

Extent and medium

1 box

Context area

Name of creator

(1794-1866)

Biographical history

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

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Bequest of William Whewell, 1866.

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Finding aids

A finding aid produced in 1998 has been attached to this record as a digital object.

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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.

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Notes area

Note

Item 109 is missing - this first noted in Sept. 1976. It was previously described as an incomplete letter from Robert Leslie Ellis to an unidentified person, 9 Oct. [18--].

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Archivist's note

The preliminary item records were added in 2020 by Diana Smith using an undated box list and the index entitled "Report on the papers of William Whewell" compiled by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in 1973. Some information was taken fromread more