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From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
17 Jul 1835
Source of text:
HS 16.404, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John Herschel
To:
William Somerville
Date:
17 Jul 1835
Source of text:
HS 19.71, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Herschel
Date:
31 Jan 1837
Source of text:
HS 11.421, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
William Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
28 Jul 1837
Source of text:
HS 16.405, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
William Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Mar 1831
Source of text:
HS 16.388, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
Early November 1832
Source of text:
RS MS HS 25, folder B7, number 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
10 November 1832
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.179
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 November 1832
Source of text:
RS MS HS 21.121
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 October 1838
Source of text:
RS MS HS 21.261
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
9 October 1838
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
14 February 1839
Source of text:
RS MS HS 7.181
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 August 1833]
Source of text:
RGO 6.157.162 (C: RS:HS 25.3.16)
Summary:

Encourages GA to consider favorably the offer of Hugh Percy [Duke of Northumberland] of donating a telescope to Cambridge Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[15 November 1838]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.217 (C: TxU:H/L-0010)
Summary:

Details about proposals for magnetic expeditions, as they are to be presented to British government [see GA's 1838-11-12]. Also included is a copy of the resolutions passed at a B.A.A.S. meeting on 25 Aug. 1828.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Fearon Fallows
Date:
[9 January 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.17
Summary:

Brings FF up-to-date on astronomical news in England, and suggests that JH may come to the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[10 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.19
Summary:

Provides FB, Chairman of the Greenwich Visitation Committee, with detailed recommendations for the preparation of catalogues coming out of the Greenwich observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Dionysius Lardner
Date:
[21 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.21
Summary:

Would prefer not to write a popular account of William Herschel and his work which DL has requested; JH has always intended to produce a major volume on the life and work of his father.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[21 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.22
Summary:

More on the observations and publication of results of the Greenwich Observatory [see JH's 1831-2-10].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
E[dward] Smedley
Date:
[22 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.23
Summary:

Is writing to inquire about the copyright status of some earlier writings for the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana; JH is considering collecting some of these early writings, together with others, for a separate publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
[23 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.24
Summary:

JH writes to excuse himself from a meeting the following day at which Charles Babbage's calculating engine will be discussed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1830-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.394
Summary:

Of a romance that JG has written.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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