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Herschel13788

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0138; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends proof of Bank's article on gold coinage. Tell HC of any corrections that JH may want.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13789

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0139; Reel 1087
Summary:

Printer can still include JH's corrections to article [on gold coinage], but not JH's enclosed letter to the Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13790

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0140.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13791

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hammond Chubb
Date:
[24 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0140.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Gratitude for copy of Bank's published volume on gold coinage controversy. Regrets that volume does not contain letter to the Times containing U.S. assay master W. E. Du Bois's testimony to integrity of British gold coinage, 'a most satisfactory answer to Mr. Segal's charge against it.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel165

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 February 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.258.500
Summary:

Responds that R. A. Proctor's theory [see GA's 1870-2-5] is possible, and explains why.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4930

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.318 (C: RGO 6.258.499)
Summary:

Has JH seen R. A. Proctor's theory regarding the Milky Way?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4931

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.319
Summary:

Has he heard about the resignations of the Assistants at the Paris Observatory? Further regarding the present situation at the Paris Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4932

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.320 & 1.321 (C: RGO 6.172.498)
Summary:

Is sending extract of a letter [included] received from R. L. J. Ellery, Melbourne[deals with observations of Eta Argus].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6405

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.170
Summary:

News of her sons. Has sold many of her photographs. Husband is in Ceylon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6406

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.171
Summary:

Sends a copy of the Graphic. Is grateful for JH's letter to her son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6483

From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.250
Summary:

Has made a mistake in the lease. Will fall in with any suggestion of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6484

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. Charsley
Date:
[1870-2-8 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.250verso
Summary:

Reply to FC's 1870-2-8.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6485

From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.251
Summary:

Is satisfied with the alteration he made in the lease and his bankers will be forwarding the premium. Thanks for the photograph of the contrivance for the ladder.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6574

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry H. H. Cameron
Date:
[16 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.317 & 24.298
Summary:

Advice and guidance on the path he is to pursue when he goes to university.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6575

From:
Henry H. H. Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.318
Summary:

Thanks for his kindly advice. News of his own progress.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6648

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

Herschel7230

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.413
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8390

From:
Edward Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.275
Summary:

Prospects for investment in Great Eastern Railway for JH's son William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8726

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[7 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.119
Summary:

Discusses various telescopes of his father and his father's [erroneous] announcement of his discovery of four additional satellites of Uranus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8972

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
London Times (Feb. 12, 1870), p. 10, col. 5
Summary:

Proposes a method of defraying the cost of coinage by means of seigniorage involving silver coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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