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Herschel1919

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Gordon
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
WT B.17
Summary:

Accepts an invitation to tea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1920

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Joseph Goodall?]
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
WT B.18
Summary:

Accepts an invitation to dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1926

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.3
Summary:

Comments on the use of a particular phrase and its italicization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2187

From:
James Clark Ross
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.431
Summary:

Engaged at the Lightning Commission. Will assist JH when he needs help. Used chart of the Antarctic region he mentioned.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2944

From:
Henri Victor Regnault
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.319
Summary:

Sends photographs from study of trees. Has news from Mr. Stewart. Is attempting to complete his works on gases and vapors. Also working on treatise on physics. Wishes to see his work also published in English.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3033

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Edward Colebrooke
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Reports on considerations that led to the election in 1824 of Henry T. Colebrooke to the presidency of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3119

From:
C. Petit
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.157
Summary:

Writes for her husband, who is very ill and receives no one. Would have made an exception for JH's son, if he had been forwarned. Expresses her husband's deepest regrets and regards.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3120

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #29
Summary:

Tells AQ of his daughters's fevers. Rejoices in the power of science to distract him temporarily from worries. Hopes to complete his Catalogus generalis nebularum by end of R.S.L. session.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3127

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Sotheby
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.222b
Summary:

Replies positively to WS's invitation to a party.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3129

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Chairman of R.S.L. Physical Committee
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS RR.1.234
Summary:

Recommends unreservedly for publication in R.S.P.T. papers by G. G. Stokes and Baden Powell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3187

From:
Algernon O. Simon
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.207
Summary:

Requests JH's autograph and 'carte de visite' for a collection.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3344

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS Sa.677
Summary:

Thanks for gelatine [?] paper. Hopes to photograph the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3352

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS Sa.682
Summary:

Invites to dinner. Will try to arrange meeting between ES and Danish hydrographer Captain Lahrtman[?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3371

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RI 487-8 F3B
Summary:

Discusses dispersive power of enclosed prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3407

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RI 367 F3B
Summary:

Maintains opinion that would be improper to append remarks from JH's note to MF's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3476

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS MM.3.6
Summary:

Fragment of a letter, discussing unity of an R.S.L. committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3590

From:
H. Symons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-11-29
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.255
Summary:

Is ill, but encloses revised copy of letter on rotation, from which HS hopes he has removed all possibly offensive statements.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3609

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS RR.[1?]
Summary:

Reports on and recommends for publication [William?] Baxter's paper detailing experiments 'on living and recently dead animals' to determine signs of current electricity manifested during 'organic process of secretion.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4059

From:
William Hirley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Requests data.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4150

From:
George Johnston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Asks for support in gaining a pension from the army.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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