From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.299
Summary:
Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.
Progressing slowly. Knows nothing about C. M. Hall or the whereabouts of his telescopes. Regarding the London Institution. Sees that U. J. J. Leverrier has been dismissed.
Prospects for investment in Great Eastern Railway for JH's son William.
Discusses various telescopes of his father and his father's [erroneous] announcement of his discovery of four additional satellites of Uranus.
Proposes a method of defraying the cost of coinage by means of seigniorage involving silver coinage.
About the dismissal of U. J. J. Leverrier at Paris observatory.
A long rambling statement against the metric system and its proposed introduction into India.