From:
Hugh Percy (3rd Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 January 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.347
Summary:
Has placed £1000 at JH's disposal for whatever use JH and Lady Herschel see fit.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Has placed £1000 at JH's disposal for whatever use JH and Lady Herschel see fit.
Accepts JH's suggestion about using the offered money for publication costs [see JH's 1835-6-12]; is concerned about the telescope at Cambridge, as G. B. Airy has left for Greenwich; final comments on the comet's effects and the weather.