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From:
Joseph Langton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
11] January [1830
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.458
Summary:

Would like to rent the piece of land at Upton, lately occupied by Mr. Davenport.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Leslie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 September 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.473
Summary:

Accept his best thanks for his article on Sound. Would be grateful for his discourse on Light. Will soon send his own dissertation on the Progress of Science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
E[neas] MacKintosh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.20
Summary:

Will be pleased to act as sponsor to JH's child. Could not stay as an inmate but will visit them from Windsor from Friday till Tuesday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.383
Summary:

Regarding the printing of JH's memoir, which William Fitton has now taken to read: suggests it be printed in abstract first of all.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.42
Summary:

Informs JH that he has been put onto an R.S.L. committee to consider the continuation of observations in the Southern Hemisphere, and to announce a meeting of that committee and of the Glass Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.44
Summary:

Has received the R.S.P.T. Also comments on several chemical matters, including isomorphism and crystallization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.140
Summary:

Introducing a Mr. Lerebours, son of the optician at the Bureau des Longitudes, who is on a visit to England. Hopes JH has received the copy of JN's work on geometry, written in a new way.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Molyneux
Date:
[17 January 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.18
Summary:

Is ordering a pocket chronometer from Molyneux and Co. on behalf of Joseph Johann Littrow of Austria.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
[1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0058; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH shocked by MB's note. Will tell Mrs. Moorsom tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1830-8]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0537.3; Reel 1053
Summary:

Wrote and asked F. L. Chantrey to write to MH. Baby Caroline is fine. Condolences as MH attends to sister Isabella.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1830-8]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0537.4; Reel 1053
Summary:

Isabella Stewart's death seems imminent. Should JH bring baby Caroline to London for funeral? Mrs. Moorsom reports that Lady Mary Herschel needed help of physician Mr. Fowler. Baby is fine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Saunders Dundas [Lord Melville], Henry Hotham, and John Barrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0942; Reel 1083
Summary:

By order of lords of Admiralty, notice is sent of royal appointment of JH and others to Board of Visitors to Greenwich Observatory. [Letter forwarded 29 Nov. from R.S.L. to JH by Davies Gilbert with compliments.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Peel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1225; Reel 1060
Summary:

Royal warrant appointing Board of Visitors to Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[27 May 1830]
Source of text:
APS B.Sm98.5 (C: RS:HS 21.70)
Summary:

Thanks WS for excerpt from Niccolo Cacciatore's letter; comments on the awarding of medals for merit, and points out some necessary conditions which must be considered if the observations of the satellites of Jupiter are to be used in determining the constant of aberration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[8 August 1830]
Source of text:
APS B.Sm98.6 (C: RS:HS 21.73)
Summary:

Advises WS on best ways to make a 'darkening glass' for solar observations. Also suggests method for delineating sunspots. Hopes WS will attend Nautical Almanac meeting and support his points. Completes two telescope mirrors and observes Uranian satellites. Asks WS to look for a double star between Beta1 and Beta2 Capricorni.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[6 September 1830]
Source of text:
APS B.Sm98.7 (C: RS:HS 21.75)
Summary:

Discusses WS's observations of double stars and method of averaging positional determinations. Believes he has verified the two Uranian satellites observed by William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Hodgkin
Date:
[1830-5-24 or later]
Source of text:
WT.Ho A.3
Summary:

Thanks TH for some crystals, including borax, as well as a paper by J. J. Lister. JH has been cutting the borax crystals preparatory to grinding and polishing them; JH has used these crystals to observe a phenomenon previously seen with a mass of niter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 September 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.339
Summary:

Discusses [James] Bradley's observations of double stars. Asks JH for assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 September 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.340
Summary:

Thanks JH for letter [see SR's 1830-9-6]. Discusses publication of [James] Bradley's observations. Congratulates JH on confirming satellites of Uranus seen by William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 September 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.341
Summary:

Discusses [James] Bradley's observations and possibility of double stars [see SR's 1830-9-6]. Seems no double stars are readily apparent. Discusses another experiment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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