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Herschel7354

From:
Thomas Lawrence
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1844]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 3/4.7; Reel 7
Summary:

Please reseal letter and send to TL, who will investigate JH's complaint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel826

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1844]
Source of text:
JHS 3.23
Summary:

Is spending time in court, and all the rooms are filled with tobacco smoke, which bothers JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8305

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[M. Bosse?]
Date:
[17 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.111
Summary:

Reacts strongly to substantial errors in unauthorized biography of JH. Suggests it be burned. [JH annotation: 'Not sent. Answered none of their letters and refused to take in 2 or 3. A regular piece of French insolence.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8385

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.268
Summary:

Received JH's packet of books and papers mailed a year earlier. Living alone for nine months, participating in Thomas Maclear's survey. Quotes J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Ideas on natural theology. Experiments with photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9594

From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.335
Summary:

Sends a small College album of poems and snaps. Wishes JH would visit him at Bruges as they have ample room to entertain him. Hopes to publish meteorological observations kept by his grandfather, father, and himself. Comments on Saturday moons and wet and windy weather. Is he working on changes in the apparent magnitude of stars?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9662

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.12
Summary:

Sending a notice, which JH may be pleased to see, though he suspects the subject did not fall into able hands.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9663

From:
Thomas Galloway
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.13
Summary:

Would be grateful if JH would look at the translation of F. W. Bessel's letter and make any comments. Expresses thanks for his kind remarks concerning [William] Wallace.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1242

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 March 1844
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.7, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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