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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[8 July 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.341 & 21.140
Summary:

Is unable to get a firm answer from James South as to the availability of a large telescope object glass that James South owns.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
Date:
[9 August 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.343 & 21.145
Summary:

JH has written to James South again [see JH's 1833-7-8] but has received no answer; is suggesting that it may well be that [R. A.] Cauchoix, the French optician, can supply object glasses as good as those James South has.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project