Invites JH to dinner.
Invites JH to dinner.
Thanks JH for a favor.
Tells JH who will be at a gathering at the parsonage.
Compliments JH on 'greatly improved edition' of a book adding to 'every department of knowledge.'
Reports on HJ's brother's health.
Notifies JH that a number of visitors will be coming to the Parsonage.
Thanks JH and Lady Herschel for their kindness to his family [in time of his brother's illness].
Thanks JH for offer of financial assistance which he declines. Expresses concern over the impending decision concerning his pension. Discusses arrangements for his family's voyage to London.
Thanks JH for his support.
Thanks for sending him the requiem.
Sending him the last Comptes rendus that can go by post. Hopes he can arrange some other method. Is always pleased to receive his publications.
Invitation to spend the night with him when he comes to town for the council meetings of the Royal and Astronomical Societies.
Will be expecting him on Thursday.
The magnetometer will not be in position tomorrow. J. C. Melvill wants to know if JH has written since his last packet. Thanks for adding name to his own certificate.
Long-time servant at Collingwood, first of Jesse Gregson, then to G. N. Collingwood. Able to care for poultry, dairy, or gardens. Received 'orders to leave Elpick' in March but begs permission to remain as JH's servant.
Recalls earlier letter in which [EC] made suggestions to JH for improving Daguerreotype.
Asks for appointment with JH and directions from Etchingham station [to JH's residence].
Writing on behalf of Lord John Russell, asks JH to notify the persons JH has selected to teach at the Cape of Good Hope to visit RS at the Colonial Office.
Writing as the recently appointed Superintendent of Government Schools at Cape Colony, JI recounts his findings from a tour of the schools at the Cape, reporting many problems.
Writing on behalf of John Russell, asks that JH inquire about the suitability of T. J. Paterson for a position teaching in the Government Schools at the Cape of Good Hope. Mentions Thomas McBean.