From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 June 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.75
Summary:
Informs JH of FB's arrival in Manchester and of further travel plans.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Informs JH of FB's arrival in Manchester and of further travel plans.
About further travel plans, and people FB is meeting as he travels in Britain.
Thank you note after FB visited Collingwood.
Warm thanks for JH's kind hospitality; some comments about Prussian Order of Merit.
More about Prussian Order of Merit; further annual parallax observations, together with comments on other observations.
Offers to meet FB at Manchester B.A.A.S. meeting and to bring FB to Collingwood for a quiet visit.
Detailed arrangements for FB's visit [see JH's 1842-6].
Comments on expected honor from Prussian government and on British rules against officially accepting it.
Informs FB on how to visit Woolwich Arsenal and Dock Yard.