Catalogue description Original Letters: William Mathews

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Details of 1922/B27
Reference: 1922/B27
Title: Original Letters: William Mathews
Description:

Series Title: Original Letters

 

Small miscellaneous assortment of letters written to and from William Mathews by other notable early climbers. Includes three typed copies of letters written by Mathews to the Revd F.J.A. Hort in Febuary 1857. In the first of these Mathews suggests the formation of an "Alpine Club". Both Mathews and Hort were ultimately founder members of the AC

 

Contains: Notes: partial ms account of a holiday in the Alps, ?written by William Mathews, c.15 August 1856 [4 pp.] Letter: T.G. Bonney to Mathews, 15 January 1862 [3 pp.]. Piece Ref: page 1922/B27/2.

 

Subject: Alpine Club

Date: 1856-1875
Held by: Alpine Club Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 volume (4 p. + 26 p.)
Physical condition: Volume comprising three pages with letters tipped into them, plus twenty-six pages of typescript bound together in a single quarter-bound volume.ms

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