Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (1838-1917)

Letter from H B Wheatley to a Mr Whale sending him a privately printed "trifle written eleven years ago and printed now".

16/04/1895

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Found in H B Wheatley 'The Early History of the Royal Society' 1905. No other provenance details recorded.

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.