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Privately acknowledges lack of clarity in William Herschel's report of discovering Saturn's inner rings, but JH was hurt by James South's public refutation of that discovery and by [T. R.] Robinson's abrupt refusal to communicate. Reviews WH's papers to demonstrate falsity of South's claim. Asks TM's opinion.
Hopes to inscribe a copy of Francis Baily's autograph on the proofs of his portraits. On the plates his full titles should be inscribed; asks JH's help in determining these. How RS can combine this with the autograph. On JH's dispute with James South.
On Francis Baily's titles and on how to get a print with Baily's picture, autograph, and name in regular capitals. Explains remarks he made in a controversy with T. R. Robinson and published in the Athenaeum [Autumn, 1843] about JH's father's telescopes.