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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2012
    08 March 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139177399
    9781108045131
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139177399
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.39kg, 302 Pages
    • Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, Social and Population History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Although he left school at fourteen to work as an upholsterer and cabinet-maker, Walter White (1811–93) would spend forty years working in the library of the Royal Society. White was mostly self-taught, a voracious reader who also learnt German, French, and Latin, and a diligent attender at lectures and other events offering self-improvement. After a brief emigration to the United States, he returned to Britain in 1839, and was offered a post as 'attendant' in the Royal Society's library in 1844; this led to his cataloguing much of the collection, and in 1861 he was appointed Librarian. He became acquainted with many of the Society's members, including Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, and Lord Tennyson. These journals, published posthumously by his brother in 1898, begin with a brief account of his early years before charting his intellectual progress and career, ending in the year he retired, 1884.

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