From:
Jane Marcet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
?? Aug 1833
Source of text:
MSM 2 / 177, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
No summary available.
Wishes JH well on his upcoming trip to the Cape of Good Hope. Asks JH to study the lower part of the Scorpion, for William Herschel was mystified by the 'uncommon appearance of that part of the heavens.' [Written as a postscript to a letter by Margaret Herschel.]
Is Miss Macqueen expected with him tomorrow and would she give the enclosed memo to JH [query as to whether the Duke of Gloucester was in Metz in 1776].