From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.93
Summary:
Barometer is swinging without encountering any accident. Believes there is to be a new clergyman at Rondebosch, the old Observatory housekeeper, John Fry, shortly to land from England. Hopes he is more adept at sermons than he was arranging the catalogue of instruments.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project