From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
31 Mar 1830
Source of text:
HS 16.334, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
No summary available.
Says manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens] cannot be improved materially except perhaps on one or two small points. Will look at it again when it is together in a whole. Announces birth of JH's daughter [Caroline] that morning.
Not interested in any contest of telescopes; will view objects desired by PB as they fit with JH's observational plans.
Writes to announce the birth of JH's and Margaret's first daughter, Caroline Emilia Mary.
Send Encyclopaedia Britannica volumes with Thomas Young's article on tides and T. R. Robinson's article on sound. When will HG's [biography of Young] be published?