From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
undated [c. 1833]
Source of text:
MSL 6 / 140, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
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Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Has had no communication with Thomas Phillips regarding JH's portrait and they would approve of JH's choice of H. W. Pickersgill. Will call on Pickersgill when he is in town and arrange size of the portrait.
Encourages WS to spend time observing nebulae and double stars, especially the latter, 'since [James] South has given up observing, and [W. R.] Dawes is in habitual ill health.'
Must rearrange date of sitting for HP's preparation of a portrait of JH.