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From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
28 Feb 1858
Source of text:
HS 16.361, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 March 1851
Source of text:
RS MS HS 23.102
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 November 1852
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1853
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Grant
Date:
[23 April 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.15 verso (C: RS:HS 23.120)
Summary:

Thanks RG for a copy of the History of Physical Astronomy; comments on the behavior of cometary tails.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Grant
Date:
[3 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.226
Summary:

About possible changes in the second edition of JH's Outlines Astr. due to the writings of another astronomer, Ignatio Porro.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Grant
Date:
[21 March 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.228
Summary:

About viewing the solar eclipse, and the many errors in G. B. Airy's Lectures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
[2 August 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.38 & 23.177
Summary:

Returns Mary Somerville's note and the papers. Does not feel competent to give his opinion on the papers as a whole as there are parts outside his field of study. Comments on some of the points raised, and on the whole he disagrees with the conclusions of the papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Woronzow Greig
Date:
[7 August 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.39 & 23.178
Summary:

Has kept Mary Somerville's papers a little longer. If these papers are to be published they would require considerable revision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Griesbach
Date:
[13 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.63
Summary:

Sorry to hear he has been laid up, but his recovery has been quicker than his own. Unable to help him as his own lands have to be sold, but encloses a check for £20, which please acknowledge with a promissory note.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J[ames] Heaviside
Date:
[27 January 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.154
Summary:

Thanks for having been informed of the death of an acquaintance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.286
Summary:

Reports on a meeting of the R.A.S., mostly talking about sun spots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John R. Hind
Date:
[21 July 1853]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.363 & 23.137
Summary:

Outlines the changes he would like to see in the column for Equinoctial Time in the Nautical Almanac.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Joanna B. Horner
Date:
[15 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.490 & 23.122
Summary:

Regrets a week has elapsed before replying to her letter, but is pleased that Miss Mathilde Oersted had so high a regard for his speech concerning her illustrious father.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[11 February 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.84
Summary:

Answers questions raised by AH in his 1850-1-19 [letter contains notes made by AH].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[8 November 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.110
Summary:

JH has been delayed in replying to AH's 1851-8-13 because of official duties at the Great Exhibition. Comments further on several astronomical matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.111
Summary:

Encourages his son Willie to show that he deserves the favors WH has received from W. H. Sykes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
Date:
[12 December 1851]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.248
Summary:

Bringing the position of G. R. Waterhouse to his notice and giving list of persons who have testified in his favor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry James
Date:
[3 April 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.272 & 23.194
Summary:

Thanks for his letter and projection. Compares it with one of his own devising and encloses a chart of the isothermal lines of the Northern hemisphere. Has used a different system for his Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
Date:
[16 April 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.436 (C: RS:HS 23.262)
Summary:

Regrets delay in replying. Explains the various editions of Sir William Herschel's works.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project