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Includes: photographs of Wherry with other Alpine Club members, letters to and about Wherry's climbing interests and related papers.

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A collection of photographs featuring Wherry with fellow Alpine Club members and guides (in formal, posed groups and climbing) and selected named peaks.

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May show Wherry or, possibly, Francis Aston-Binns (d.1898), with guide (possibly Xaver Imseng) and climbing equipment.

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This image is possibly of Francis Aston-Binns with a guide (the higher of the two).

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Mounted photograph with handwritten annotations. Includes: Joseph Turc, Pierre Gaspard, Mathon, Hippolyte Rodier, George Edward Wherry, Felix von Rath, Francis Aston-Binns, Herr C. G. Grisar.

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Photograph of the peak only.

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin diagrams by Leonard Darwin], 13-26, 26a-26b, 27-31, [32], 33-38, 40; some in hand of Emma Darwin née Wedgwood; See item 114 by Leonard Darwin; See item 115 on reverse of few lines from draft text of 'Expression'[?] p unknown

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L-R: George Edward Wherry; W. Alois Kalbermatten, Xaver Imseng and Francis Aston-Binns.

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Five men and three women, including Wherry (possibly back, 2nd left) and Francis Aston-Binns (back right).

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L-R (back row): Wherry; Francis Aston-Binns; unknown; (front row) Xaver Imseng and W. Alois Kalbermatten (guides); unknown.

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Hill recounts the memories of [Sir Richard Tetley] Glazebrook at the Athenaeum, after hearing of Wherry's death, about climbing with Wherry when they slipped into a crevasse, damaging Glazebrook's foot and dislocating Wherry's rib.

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Note; by Charles Robert Darwin

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Scope and Contents Includes: handwritten diary notes of Wherry's climb of the Weisshorn, 1910 (this has later annotations by Wherry, sending it to someone - possibly A. D. Godley - and asking for its return); notes for speech given to Alpine Club in 1912 with hand-written notes and amendments; single sheet passport for Wherry, aged 61, 'a British Born subject travelling on the Continent', issued by the British Envoy to the Swiss Confederation, 4 August 1914; British Association of Members of the Swiss Alpine...