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Herschel1139

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[1840?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.13.4
Summary:

Having heard that HP had expressed pleasure at some of JH's colored photographs, JH sends some more recent ones.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12475

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[8 July 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.341 & 21.140
Summary:

Is unable to get a firm answer from James South as to the availability of a large telescope object glass that James South owns.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12477

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[9 August 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.343 & 21.145
Summary:

JH has written to James South again [see JH's 1833-7-8] but has received no answer; is suggesting that it may well be that [R. A.] Cauchoix, the French optician, can supply object glasses as good as those James South has.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12482

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[12 June 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.348bis & 13.348 inc & 21.178
Summary:

Responds to HP's generous offer [see HP's 1835-1-21] by saying JH does not need the money, and then suggests that HP might want to use it to support the publication of JH's results from his stay at the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12485

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[25 November 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.351 & 21.214
Summary:

Comments on inaccuracies in earlier Southern Hemisphere star catalogues, along with an extended description of comet observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12486

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
1837-12-16/17
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.352 & 21.234
Summary:

Describes his observational activities, especially the discovery of the variable nature of Eta Argo, and the rediscovery of the sixth satellite of Saturn.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12488

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[30 March 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.354 & 22.4
Summary:

About arrangements for the publication and distribution of JH's Cape observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12490

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[12 June 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.356 inc & 22.243
Summary:

Sends copies of plates and details about them, and expects printing of JH's Cape Results to begin early in 1846.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12491

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[12 October] 1841
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.357 & 19.164 (C: RS:HS 25.13.8)
Summary:

Recommends that William Whewell be appointed Master of Trinity College.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12878

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[30 May 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0288; Reel 1054
Summary:

[Extract] Suggests change in proposed distribution [of Cape Results]. Richard Sheepshanks offered to subsidize portrait of JH, to be distributed with complimentary copies [of Cape Results].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14766

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[3 September 1838]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0969; Reel 1083
Summary:

Proposes JH for several positions in B.A.A.S. [Annotations by JH explain reasons for declining.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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