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From:
Richard Taylor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.341
Summary:

Has 50 copies of JH's paper ['On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on the Daguerreotype Plate'] for P.M. printed exclusively for JH. Asks opinion of papers for next issue of Scientific Memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.301
Summary:

Regarding his brother-in-law's sale of property. Sorry he was unable to meet him at Dover recently. Mother in good health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[14 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.302
Summary:

Regarding the deeds for CB's brother-in-law. Is sorry that CB could not see the blasting of the cliffs at Dover.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.80
Summary:

Note of thanks for paper of JH's; replies with a printing of a talk by FB about William Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[24 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.234 (C: RS:HS 25.8.49)
Summary:

Thanks for his paper on the Earth. Wishes his own Cape work was finished and of the same standard as FB's work. Regarding support for Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy when his election to the R.S.L. is being considered.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
1843-2-[25 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.235 (C: RS:HS 25.8.50)
Summary:

Will start work on the Southern Constellations without delay. Thanks for his remarks on W. B. O'Shaughnessy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.236
Summary:

Regarding his own support for W. B. O'Shaughnessy. Star reform in the Southern hemisphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Stewart
Date:
1843-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.102
Summary:

Agrees to provide Josiah Quincy with extracts from letters by James Grahame. Highlights of Grahame's life.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Robert Hunt?]
Date:
[23 February 1843]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:

Thanks for the 'exquisite specimen of Daguerreotype.' Speculates on the possibility of making Daguerreotype portraits small enough to be set in rings or in shirt pins.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
James Sinnett
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 2nd, 1843
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3863, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Saturday evening, Feb. 5th 1843.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3592, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
(Feb. 7th, 1843)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3593, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
Tuesday night, (Feb. 1843)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3285-6, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
William Ginty
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
(February 1843)
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3595, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas M Foy
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27th. February 1843.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/11/3576, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Tyndall, Snr
Date:
[late] February, 1843
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3287, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project