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Herschel10046

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.381
Summary:

Response to JH's wedding being set for March, and some news from Nantes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10048

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.383
Summary:

Inconsequential chatter [letter completed 1829-2-7].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10049

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.384
Summary:

Best wishes to JH on his marriage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10050

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Grahame
Date:
[27 March 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.385
Summary:

Of JH's happiness on his honeymoon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10051

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 June 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.386
Summary:

Informs JH that his mother has been ill but is improving [letter completed 1829-6-30].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10052

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 July 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.387
Summary:

Of travel and holiday plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10053

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 July 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.388
Summary:

Of changes in JG's plans.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10054

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 July 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.389
Summary:

Has no letters about General Cambourne, which JH apparently had requested.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10055

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 August 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.390
Summary:

Asks JH to be trustee for JG in a legal matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10056

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.391
Summary:

Of plans to come to Slough.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10057

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.392
Summary:

Of the health of Peter Stewart, JH's brother-in-law.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10058

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 December 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.393
Summary:

Needs a copy of Euclid from JH; quotes some Latin poetry of Nicholas Copernicus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10165

From:
George Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.52
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's assistance with his request. Would he lend him £5 until his first payment falls due.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10166

From:
John Henry Griesbach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.53
Summary:

Has only just had the opportunity of studying JH's paper. Comments on JH's theories regarding the musical scales and includes some of his own.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10167

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Griesbach
Date:
[7 October 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.54 & 21.48
Summary:

Is grateful for his comments on his own theories regarding the flat 7th as a harmonic. Enlarges on this theme.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10232

From:
John Thomas Graves
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.119
Summary:

Is grateful for his comments. Will withdraw his paper as requested; at the same time he points out various aspects of how he arrived at the results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10281

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.164
Summary:

Has requested his friend Thomas Henderson of Edinburgh University to call on JH. Would be pleased if JH can help him in any way.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10403

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Henderson
Date:
[17 January 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.283 & 21.34
Summary:

Rejoices to hear TH is a candidate for the Professorship of Astronomy at Edinburgh University. His astronomical work has been of great assistance to JH, especially his detection of the reasons for the error in the Greenwich Observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10706

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[18 March 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.43
Summary:

In response to AH's 1828-10-8, JH writes to tell him of William Herschel's ideas on nebulae and the Magellanic Clouds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10785

From:
Thomas John Hussey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1829]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.140
Summary:

Felicitations on JH's marriage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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