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MS 441/14/1-6;D Letters (6) to Robert Brown of Campster, October 1866 to March 1867 [Regarding arrangements for Brown's participation in expedition to Greenland in 1867] 7 leaves, autograph
MS 441/15;D Agreement, 27 April 1867 [Between Whymper and Robert Brown regarding an expedition to Greenland] 2 leaves
MS 822/1/1-9;BJ Lecture notebooks (9), circa 1853 [Used at Clarendon House School, Lambeth] 9 volumes, holograph
MS 822/2;BJ Notebook/Journal, 1863 to 1868 [Travels in France, Switzerland and Piedmont and the Alps] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/3/1-2;BJ Journals (2), 1867 [Voyage from Copenhagen to Edegesminde and Jacobshavn on SS Phoenix of Grimsby] 2 volumes, holograph
MS 822/4;BJ Diary, 21 July to 26 September 1872 [Visit to Greenland from Copenhagen] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/5;BJ Journal, 5 May to 2 November 1872 [Voyage from London to Greenland by way of Copenhagen] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/6;BJ Field journal, 21 July to 27 September 1872 [Greenland] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/7/1-2;BJ Journals (2), 1879 to 1880 [Journey to Ecuador] 2 volumes, holograph
MS 822/8;BJ Notes for reference, 1879 to 1880 [Kept during journey to Ecuador] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/9;BJ Catalogue, 1879 to 1880 [Collections made in Ecuador] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/10;BJ Notes on ascents, 1880 [Made in Ecuador] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/11;BJ Observations, 1879-1880 [Boiling point in Ecuador] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/12;BJ Observations, 1879 to 1880 [Blood temperatures at various altitudes in Ecuador] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/13;BJ Photographic register, 1879 [Journey to Ecuador] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/14;BJ Angle book, 1879-1880 [Kept during journey to Ecuador] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/15;BJ Observations, 1879 to 1880 [In Ecuador of mercurial barometer, aneroid barometer and of water boiling point] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/16;BJ Lecture, March 1881 [Ascent of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi, given to Society of Arts] 1 volume, printed proofs
MS 822/17;BJ Lecture, May 1881 [Journey among the Great Andes of the Equator, given to the Royal Geographical Society] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/18;BJ Journal, 20 September 1892 to 26 August 1893 [Journeys to Chamonix and Zermatt] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/19;BJ Journal, 7 July to 24 September 1894 [Journey to Chamonix and the Swiss Alps] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/20;BJ Journal, 29 July 1895 to 10 October 1896 [Journeys to Chamonix and Zermatt] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/21;BJ Journal, 18 September 1897 to 18 October 1898 [Journeys to Chamonix, Zermatt and Grindelwald] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/21;BJ Journal, 4 August 1899 to 14 January 1901 [Journeys to the Swiss Alps, the United States and Canada and return to the Swiss Alps] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/23;BJ Angle Book, 1901 [Mostly empty] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/24;BJ Journal, 23 May 1901 to 18 January 1902 [Journey to the Rocky Mountains of Canada] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/25;BJ Catalogue, 1901 [Collections made in Canada] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/26;BJ General notes, 1901-1904 [Canadian Rocky Mountains] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/27;BJ Journal, 10 August 1902 to 19 November 1903 [Journeys to Chamonix, Zermatt, Canadian Rocky Mountains and returning to Chamonix and Zermatt] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/28;BJ Journal, 14 June to 14 November 1904 [Journeys to Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Alps] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/29;BJ Journal, 16 June to 12 December 1905 [Journeys to Canadian Rocky Mountains and the Alps] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/30;BJ Journal, 25 April 1906 to 16 October 1908 [Including marriage to Edith Lewin, tour of the Southern English counties, Alpine tours] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/31;BJ Journal, 16 July to 24 October 1909 [Journey tot eh Canadian Rocky Mountains and Swiss Alps] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/32;BJ Journal, 28 August to 30 October 1910 [Journey to Chamonix and Zermatt] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/33;BJ Journal, 8 August to 13 September 1911 [Journey to Chamonix and Zermatt] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/34;BJ Notes, undated [On Greenland] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/35;BJ Letters on the Matterhorn accident, 1865 [Four of Whymper's companions died following successful first ascent] 1 volume, holograph and printed
MS 822/36;BJ Scrapbook, 1898 to 1903 [Zermatt and the Matterhorn] 1 volume, holograph and printed
MS 822/37/1-2;BJ Proofs of wood engravings, undated [Produced by his fathers business with notes and identifications of engravers] 2 volumes
MS 822/38;BJ Letter book, 1879 to 1880 [Received, regarding South America] 1 volume, holograph
MS 822/39;Boxed Miscellaneous non-polar papers [Including school certificates; diaries (5) 1855-1859; odd notes and meteorological observations; notes and pamphlets on aneroid barometer; odd notes and meteorological observations] 1 box