Manuscripts in Wren Class R

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Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
14 Draft, "Chapter III. Of Ideas and Conceptions. Item [c 1835?]
22 Fragment of outline of chapter on Bacon Item [c 1838?]
16-22 Letters from Edward Craven Hawtrey Item 1846-1847
42 Letter from "An admirer of hexameters" Item 27 Oct. 1846
43 Letter from Sir E. H. Alderson Item 27 Jan. [18--]
53 Letter from Hudson Gurney Item 14 Apr. 1839
57 Letter from Alexander William Lindsay, Earl of Crawford and Balcarres Item 6 May 1862
59 Letter from Aubrey Taylor Item 10 May 1862
61 Letter from I. C. Wright Item 21 Dec. 1861
62 Pamphlet, The walk, translated in the original metre from the German of F. Schiller Item [1845?]
63 Pamphlet, Further thoughts on English prosody by John T. Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale Item 1859
71 Pamphlet, On the theory of the English hexameter, and its applicability to the translation of Homer by Lord Lindsay Item 1862
79 Printer's copy of Goethe's Herman and Dorothea translated by Whewell Item [1850?]
10a Printed poem, Nugarum Bartlovianarum epilogus Item [19th cent.]
21 Thomas Babington Macaulay’s logogriph, “Cut off my head, the singular I act” Part [c 1830?]
32 Broadsheet "Woburn Abbey Theatre. Prologue, written and spoken by Richard Monckton Milnes... December 22, 1848" Part [1848?]
24 Two poems by [F. M.?], 8 years old Part June 1849
25 Friedrich Schiller’s “Hoffnung” in an unidentified hand Part [19th cent.]
33 William Wordsworth’s “Poem on a Daisy casting its shadow on Loughrigg Fell” copied by Cordelia Whewell Part 4 Nov. 1844
34 Edward Forbes’ “The Story of the Dodo - by the President of the Ashmolean Society”, unsigned Part [19th cent.]
36-38 “Epitaph in Lowestoft Church” three copies by an unidentified person Part [19th cent.]
18.16 William Whewell notes on books read, and miscellaneous cuttings and letters File 1817-[c 1870]
1 Notes on books read Item Oct.-Dec. 1817
7 Proof of an obituary of Richard Sheepshanks and miscellaneous cuttings mathematics, natural philosophy, and eclipses Item 1830-1860, [18--]
10-12 Letters from unidentified people to William Whewell Item 1839-1845
18.17 William Whewell notebooks and drafts of a history of the philosophy of science File 1820-1860
3 Draft, "Of the undulatory theory of Light" Item [1833?]
5 Drafts of writings on the history of science, with other miscellaneous notes Item [19th cent.]
6 Draft of three sections of an outlined "The Philosophy of the Pure Sciences" Item 1833-[1834]
10-13 Notes and drafts of a work on the history of the philosophy of science Item 1830-[1832?]