From:
Charles T. Beke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.35
Summary:
Thanks JH for promptly signing memorial [see CB's 1866-9-28].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Thanks JH for promptly signing memorial [see CB's 1866-9-28].
Is grateful for the volumes. Hopes his poetry endeavors will succeed. John Taylor is now at East Sheen. She has won a medal for photography at Southampton.
Thanks for EC's poetry; comments on other translators of Homer, and on mythical beasts.
Complains about Arabic star names; comments on squabble between Charles Babbage and James South.