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Herschel4847

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.234
Summary:

Regarding errors in Francis Baily's tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4848

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.235 (C: RGO 6.377.437)
Summary:

Regarding orbits of comets. Lunar elements JH requires are given in P. A. Hansen's tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7068

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[8 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.299 & 23.207
Summary:

Regarding the possibility of decimal coinage. Washes his hands of adjectives expressed in algebraic form. Has received good news from India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7069

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.300
Summary:

S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries and the work of the Commission on the Decimal Coinage. Is sure he read the algebraic adjectives in the Memoirs of the Analytical Society. May be related in some way. His wife is slowly recovering. Has JH read about the Devil's Elixir?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7070

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.301
Summary:

Has received a list of witnesses whose answers have been printed for Thomas Spring-Rice (1st Baron Monteagle).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7071

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.302
Summary:

Hopes the Indian mail has taken a weight off JH's mind. George Peacock is anxious that JH should be in their plot regarding the introduction of the decimal coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7072

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[21 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.210
Summary:

Comments about JH's ancestor, Hercules, and replies to S. J. Loyd's (1st Baron Overstone) queries [see AD's 1857-10-9].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7073

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.303
Summary:

Will send the proofs. Has heard all about JH's ancestor [Hercules]. Miss Louisa has committed manslaughter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9466

From:
R[obert] Few
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.212
Summary:

Has been unable to find the copy of the marriage settlement [for Margaret Louisa Herschel?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9815

From:
Alexander Hamilton-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 October 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.150
Summary:

Has been very busy; otherwise he would have acknowledged his cheque before. Is glad to hear better news from India. Bad organization for the arming of the British troops in India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1440

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Wednesday morning | 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/964; MS JT/1/HTYP/504, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1441

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Stephen Hawtrey
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT 2/13c/1036; MS JT/1/TYP/9/221-3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1442

From:
Stephen Hawtrey
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/2/13c/1037; MS JT/1/TYP/9/224-5, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1443

From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19th. Oct. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/228; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1920, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1444

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/15; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1308, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1445

From:
Mary Anne Coxe
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Tuesday | Ocyober 20th.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/274, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1446

From:
John Tyndall
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
21st. Oct. 1857.
Source of text:
JDF Incoming letters 1857, no. 85, StA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1447

From:
James David Forbes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
23 oct 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/F/32; MS JT/1/TYP/12/3942, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1448

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
Saturday morning
Source of text:
HP 8:30, IC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1449

From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
31 Oct. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/485, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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