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Herschel10106

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.443
Summary:

Is unable to be of assistance to JH in the matter of a military appointment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10107

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.444
Summary:

About JG's intended marriage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10108

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-11-28
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.445
Summary:

Has briefly come into London on distressing business.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10117

From:
Robert Grahame, Sr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.8
Summary:

Will be pleased to breakfast with him tomorrow, but must leave before ten in order to keep an appointment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10198

From:
Princess Galitzine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.84
Summary:

Would like him to accept a small work on the analysis of force.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10219

From:
George [Hamilton]-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-8-9
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.105
Summary:

Would like to see him at dinner tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10220

From:
Lewis Conway-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.106
Summary:

Arrangements for the 12th suits him well, and looks forward to staying with him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10221

From:
Lewis Conway-Gordon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.107
Summary:

Would be very pleased to spend a day with him before his return.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10311

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.193bis
Summary:

Further explanation of a matter in gunnery. Can send further sketches if he is still interested.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10312

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.194
Summary:

Has accepted an invitation to visit the Victory and hopes to meet the JH's at the same party. Is off to the dockyard to see about an anchor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10313

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.195
Summary:

Has been staying at Rome, where the climate did not suit him, but is now on a small ship touring the Mediterranean. Sends a letter of Feliciano Scarpelini, who has a man working a specula made of marble. Palermo Observatory is being put on a secure footing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10315

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.197
Summary:

Further about the experiments of T. T. Grant. Man presented him with a sealed packet on the subject of the precession of the equinoxes by means of the libration of the moon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10341

From:
William Vernon Harcourt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-10-21
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.224
Summary:

Where can he obtain details of F. W. Bessel's experiments to which JH refers? Comments on experiments with pendulums.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10342

From:
William Vernon Harcourt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-10-13
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.225
Summary:

Would like his opinion on one of the experiments of Isaac Newton, described in the Principia. Has this experiment ever been repeated?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10372

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.252
Summary:

Sending a number of W. J. Hooker's Icones in which he will find a figure of the little green orchis. Can find nothing like his Satyrium. Would he send the bulb trowel he left at the Herschels'.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10373

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.253
Summary:

Many thanks for the bulb; succeeded also in digging one up. Has collected a sackload of bulbs from Table Mountain and sends a few orchidae. Hopes the orobanche will not wither. The composite from JH's garden is Zinnia elegans, a Mexican plant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10374

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-10-13
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.254
Summary:

JH's plant is a Serruria, a very large genus. Is not certain of the name of the little yellow bulb. Working on a glossary of botanical jargon and a Genera of S. African Plants. Hopes he will send him any odd looking plant when he goes out bulbing. Is working on the Compositae at the moment. Alphonse de Candolle has issued a beautiful arrangement of this difficult family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10375

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.255
Summary:

Further regarding vegetable colors. Advises him to write to Mrs. Griffiths (Torquay) about algae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10426

From:
Alexander Henning
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.307
Summary:

Just going on board to bring back Lady Ryan (wife of Sir Edward?) and will then call to see him. The furniture will be landed immediately. Proposes to sail Saturday morning.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10427

From:
Alexander Henning
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-6-24
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.308
Summary:

Gives an example of lunar observations. Considers this a more accurate measurement than that obtained by the chronometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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