From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1839]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:
Details her daily routine.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Details her daily routine.
Recounts a letter from William Rowan Hamilton, President of the Royal Irish Academy, commending CH on her service to astronomy.
Prepared to send to CH copies of the Index to John Flamsteed.
Has enclosed with the letter 'a letter sketch of the 40 feet [telescope] (as it now stands) made without hands, by Photography.'
The 20-ft. reflecting telescope used at Cape Town was delivered safely to Slough.
Reports the birth of JH's seventh child, Maria Sophia. Met Adolphus Frederick, the Duke of Cambridge, who asked about CH.