William Wallace letter

This material is held atSenate House Library Archives, University of London

  • Reference
    • GB 96 AL489
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1st Jan 1833 - 31st Dec 1833
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 320 mm x 200 mm 2 leaves

Scope and Content

No address. To Rev George Peacock, Dean of Ely. Describing Wallace's part in the introduction of foreign mathematical notation to England and 'the Reformation .... the the Mathematical science in Britain'.
Autograph, with signature. Headed 'First Copy'. Inscribed in another hand: 'Found among Mr Thomas Galloway's papers'.

Arrangement

See hard copy catalogue

Access Information

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This document is inserted in S F Lacroix 'An elementary treatise on the differential and integral calculus' (1816) (copy formerly belonging to A De Morgan) - Library classmark [DeM] L.3 [Lacroix]. To request the document, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letter AL489.

Other Finding Aids

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Special Collections Reading Room.