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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1843]
Source of text:
RGO 6.8.87
Summary:

Changes the date of a Board of Visitors' meeting and urges JH to be there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[21 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.170
Summary:

Sends diagram of the 'little sweeper,' which is now at Hanover with 94-year-old Caroline Herschel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.274
Summary:

Asks JH for description of JH's 'little sweeper' telescope; plans to give a sketch of it in WS's book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.303
Summary:

Is sending him some new additions for the memoir by L. F. Menabrea. Mother keeps well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.263
Summary:

Has a copy of F. W. A. Argelander's Uranometria. Comments on this in relation to the proposed revision of the constellations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.264
Summary:

Has received his letter and incorporated the amendments in the paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
7] November [1843
Source of text:
RGO 6.368.669
Summary:

Will try to attend meeting called by GA, although JH is plagued by rheumatism; comments on the periods of Saturn's satellites.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.95
Summary:

Was appointed assistant in [mineralogical and geological branch of] British Museum. Thanks for JH's support.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Wilson
Date:
[20 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.263
Summary:

Disagrees with AW. Declines to intercede. [See AW's 1843-10-31].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richarda Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.312
Summary:

G. B. Airy will be happy to receive JH tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[2 November 1843]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #836 (Nov. 4, 1843), 983-4
Summary:

Continues the debate with T. R. Robinson [see Athenaeum, #830 (Sept. 23, 1843), 866-7; #831 (Sept. 30, 1843), 884; and #834 (Oct. 21, 1843), 945-6] on the quality of William Herschel's 40-foot reflecting telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Astronomische Nachrichten
Date:
[16 November 1843]
Source of text:
Astronomische Nachrichten, 21 (1844), 199-202
Summary:

Reports observations of the comet of March 1843 [Great Comet of 1843] made from India by a Mr. Clerihew, who reported seeing a bifurcation of the comet's tail.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[29 November 1843]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20756 (C: RS:HS 22.172)
Summary:

Recounts visit to Collingwood by the novelist Maria Edgeworth. Thanks WW for information on Charles Prichard and his school.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Maria Edgeworth
Date:
[29 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.28
Summary:

Would she read the enclosed letter and show the passage marked to Mrs. F. M. Wilson. This morning he dispatched to her a book and gloves. Will send the photographs and picture by some other means later.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas I. M. Forster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.334
Summary:

Would like a copy of JH's pamphlet on Education written at the Cape. Did he ever receive the Perennial Calendar? Comments on recent falling stars. Does he know where Stephen Lee's Catalogue of Changing Stars is? Mr. Slegg's brother is in a mental home.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project