Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (1838-1917)
- Wheatley, Henry Benjamin, (1838-1917)
- Date:
- 16/04/1895
- Reference:
- MS.8007/6
- Part of:
- Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries
- Archives and manuscripts
About this work
Description
Letter from H B Wheatley to a Mr Whale sending him a privately printed "trifle written eleven years ago and printed now".
Publication/Creation
16/04/1895
Physical description
1 letter
Contributors
Acquisition note
Found in H B Wheatley 'The Early History of the Royal Society' 1905. No other provenance details recorded.
Biographical note
English bibliographer and antiquarian, a founder of the Early English Text Society and of the Index Society. Published the classic work on the indexing of books, How to Make an Index, 1902. He edited Samuel Pepys’s diary (10 vol., 189-1899) and wrote Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In, 1880.
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Accession number
- 335179