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Herschel6460

From:
Arthur Cayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865-1
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.228
Summary:

Has kept the petition and will forward it after the meeting. His brother is now in the 16th book of the Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6413

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.180 & 181
Summary:

Note with some photographs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9386

From:
Mr. Eyre
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1865
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.140
Summary:

Will be pleased for JH to see the house and grounds at any time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7288

From:
Thomas L. Dames
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.467
Summary:

Will be very pleased to assist him in obtaining the fossils, but can he give him the location of the quarries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6471

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.239
Summary:

Thanks for his friendly letter written on Christmas day. Regarding the Cambridge Observations just published. His own theories of hydrodynamics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2263

From:
John Ryall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.514
Summary:

Asks for JH's opinion of the mathematical work of Professor [George] Boole, who recently died. Needs testimony to get pension for his widow and child.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2264

From:
John Ryall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.515
Summary:

Thanks JH for his opinion of [George] Boole. It may help his widow and children in their application to Lord Palmerston [H. J. Temple].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1426

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.58
Summary:

Asks JH to support a petition to the government for a pension for the widow and children of George Boole.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6857

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.165
Summary:

Would JH look through the proof of WD's speech on the presentation of a [R.A.S.] medal to Professor G. P. Bond and make any comments or suggestions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2221

From:
Sir Edward Ryan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14. 465
Summary:

Thanks JH for copy of [John] Davy's letter. Is sorry to see Charles Babbage pursuing old disputes in his recent publication. Wife's health is failing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14616

From:
W. H. Wood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0599; Reel 1086 (C: RS:HS 24.81)
Summary:

Sends additional meteorological data for 10-12 Jan. 1865, showing effect of full moon on cloud cover.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11984

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.346
Summary:

WM's friend William Huggins is a candidate for the fellowship of the R.S.L. and would be pleased for JH's support. Please return the certificate to WM when he has signed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6717

From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.34
Summary:

Says JH will receive an official letter of thanks from the administration of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle for the meteorite samples [see GD's 1865-1-23].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11103

From:
Edward John Jennings
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.440
Summary:

Regrets that illness prevented JH's attendance at the Finance Committee. Gives the reasons why a change of uniform is necessary for the Rifle Volunteers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6716

From:
Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.33
Summary:

Officially writes on behalf of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle to thank JH for his assistance in providing samples of the South African meteorite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7584

From:
Henry Herman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1865]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.101; Reel 9
Summary:

Received seven copies [of JH's Cape Results]. Will forward these to India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1265

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.29
Summary:

Commiserates with JH in his illness, and says CB is ill also and confined to his house. Seeing JH's letter in the Philosophical Magazine [see JH's 1864-12-20] seems to CB to obviate completely the need for any further response.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6553

From:
Bernard Cracroft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.296
Summary:

Sending two pamphlets which he thinks are of great value, the one on the cure for sea-sickness being especially noteworthy. Would be glad of JH's support for Dr. John Chapman's claims.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6858

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.166
Summary:

Encloses two certificates and hopes that he will give the candidates his support. Has just received a letter from Angelo Secchi on the Herschelian prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6554

From:
Bernard Cracroft
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.297
Summary:

Thanks for kind letter. Pamphlets should have reached him by now. Discourses on the effects of cold and heat on the spinal cord.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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