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Add. MS c/51/8
Title
William Whewell to Richard Jones
Date(s)
- [1 Sept. 1821] (Creation)
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2 pp.
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London - John Herschel was late in writing because he was hoping to meet WW and RJ in person. WW just caught him 'as he was going to see Davy [Humphry Davy] make some experiments on galvanism which are odd enough'. WW picked up a copy of Rickman [Thomas Rickman, 'An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England from the Conquest to the Reformation', 1817] for RJ from Taylor's architectural library in Holborn: 'I think you will find it worth cramming - and for the furtherance of your future theory of the origin of pointed architecture I picked up some views of Peterborough which I found and which will show your favourite Basilica on a large scale'.