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From:
Susan White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.229
Summary:

Thanks JH for ring of deceased Mary Herschel. Would like to see JH's children, but age confines SW.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.64
Summary:

Compares 'Products' principle with 'Sums' principle for numerical analysis of taxation in several boroughs. JH's opinion favoring Sums was quoted 'in the Assembly.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
Date:
[25 February 1832]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford (C: RS:HS 21.101)
Summary:

Asks SR to vote for [William Hodge] Mill for the new Boden Professorship of Oriental Literature at Oxford. Thanks SR for gift of SR's book on James Bradley.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Responds to an unidentified mathematician who had written a critique of ideas put forward by Thomas Drummond, regarding whether to estimate the importance of various boroughs primarily in terms of population or in terms of the wealth of the population.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project