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DCP-LETT-53

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1828
Source of text:
DAR 154: 66
Summary:

Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.

News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-54

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[24 Dec 1828]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 7)
Summary:

CD is collecting entomological specimens;

extols the charms of Fanny Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10045

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.380
Summary:

Of mutual friends in England and life in Nantes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10047

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.382
Summary:

Seasons greetings and thoughts on JH's upcoming marriage [letter completed 1829-1-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10259

From:
Stephen Groombridge
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.144
Summary:

Regarding the testimonial for W. S. Stratford, would like to be included among the subscribers. Hopes Stratford has found beneficial employment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10260

From:
Stephen Groombridge
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.145
Summary:

Regrets his health prevents him from attending the dinner in honor of W. S. Stratford. Will discharge his debt when called upon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11220

From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
30 December [1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.110
Summary:

Encloses a new prospectus of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Intends to write physical astronomy himself. William Whewell cannot write Sound. Has a stock in hand for three years.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12185

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Date:
[29 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.43 & 21.33
Summary:

EM has just missed being awarded a Royal Medal; it was given to W. H. Wollaston. Thinks it advisable for EM to draw up a brief resume of his own scientific discoveries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13249

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0520.1; Reel 1053
Summary:

JH's love for Margaret Stewart. Financial plans for future. Isabella Stewart is still ill. Burn this letter. P.S.: Do not burn it. JH may want to read it in later years. Mrs. Stewart gave JH her husband's journal recording Margaret's sixth year. Regards from James Grahame to MPH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13250

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0520.2; Reel 1053
Summary:

Enamored of Margaret Stewart. Orders MH to secrecy about JH's engagement. Praises fiancée's musical talent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14672

From:
Mary Pitt Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0624; Reel 1086
Summary:

Wishes JH well on his visit to Stewart family and to Cambridge. Personal finances. Arrangements for JH's new servant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2233

From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.500
Summary:

Discovered a mistake in Mr. Perkins's paper published in the Annals of Philosophy. Perkins has not yet corrected the error, although he was requested to do so.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3290

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Rowan Hamilton
Date:
[5 December 1828]
Source of text:
TCD 1493:30
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of papers sent by WH for Astronomical Society and R.S.L. and will deliver them, but currently has not time to say more. Looks forward to enrollment of WH's name among members at next Astronomical Society meeting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3638

From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.82
Summary:

Thanks JH for award and dinner invitation given to him by Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3751

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0573.4; Reel 1058
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of CH's diary. JH apologizes for mishandling one aspect of the awarding of the Astronomical Society's Gold Medal to CH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5791

From:
David Brewster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.261
Summary:

Thanks for paper on light, which he has only just read as it was mislaid. Grateful for the acknowledgement of his scientific labors. Comments and queries regarding the paper in the light of his own experiments. Wishes to reprint parts of it so would be grateful for several plates.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel605

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[7 December 1828]
Source of text:
RGO 6.803.73
Summary:

Has prepared a paper on the doctrine of sound; expects to be up to spend several days with GA at the Cambridge Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel741

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Stewart
Date:
[24 December 1828]
Source of text:
JHS 2.18
Summary:

A love letter on Christmas Eve from JH, at home with his mother, to his 'attached,' MS; comments about their mutual friend, James Grahame.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel742

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Emilia Stewart
Date:
[4 December 1828]
Source of text:
JHS 2.24
Summary:

Writes to initiate JH's suit for the hand of Margaret Stewart, and place his cause before ES. Enclosed is a letter to Margaret [see JH's 1828-12-4 to Margaret Stewart] and also a letter from James Grahame to ES.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel743

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Stewart
Date:
[4 December 1828]
Source of text:
JHS 2.25
Summary:

JH declares his undying love for MS. [Letter very correctly sent through MS's mother; see JH's 1828-12-4 to Emilia Stewart].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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