From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil
Date:
[26 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.177
Summary:
Comments on a multi-volume work on India by the Schlaginweits [Hermann and Robert], suggesting that the work contains much extraneous computation and detail and should be compressed. Questions whether further publication on the present scale is justified.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project