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Herschel10687

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[3 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.267
Summary:

Note to accompany the reported observations of JH's son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9380

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick J. O. Evans
Date:
[4 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.133 & 24.265
Summary:

Unable to attend the forthcoming meeting of the Board of Visitors. Would like to resign from the Board as his enfeebled health will prevent him from attending future meetings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10274

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Haig[?]
Date:
[4 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.157 & 24.266
Summary:

Has received his book on symbolism from the publishers. Comments on some of its views. Feels he has been treated a little harshly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13052

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
6 [June] 1869
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0464; Reel 1055
Summary:

Correction to be made in JH's biographical sketch of William Whewell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10689

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[9 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.52 & 24.268
Summary:

Thinks it would be best to send his son's letter to G. G. Stokes at the R.S.L. Cannot give a positive opinion on WH's plan for seeing the prominences. Finds some discrepancies in the Report of WH's paper on Sirius and the paper itself.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13273

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[10 June 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0530; Reel 1053
Summary:

Forwarded both of John's papers on solar observations to William Huggins. Comments on solar prominences and spots, and on Eta Argus. Concern for Esther's fever. Report of 'great meteor' seen at Collingwood. Alexander Herschel came home from Glasgow with new device called 'bicycle' that amuses neighbors. Explains optics problem in telescopes. English system of measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2550

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[16 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.459 (C: RS:HS 24.269)
Summary:

Praises AS for commencing his fifty-second course of lectures at age 84. Laments his own frailty. Recommends an array of meteorological books . Lists 'useful' meteorological instruments. Mentions family matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11559

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julie Laurence Levi
Date:
[17 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.476
Summary:

Sympathizes with Dr. C. T. Beke but regrets he is unable to contribute towards his assistance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10993

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[19 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.339 (C: RS:HS 24.270)
Summary:

Grieves to say that he will be unable to attend the meeting at the Royal Institution to honor Michael Faraday, as his health is so poor. Thinks Faraday was a great man in all ways.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14089

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[27 June 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0306.2 & TxU:H/M-0307.2; Reel 1087
Summary:

Develops mathematical theorem.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6645

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.271
Summary:

Comments on poetry, EC's and Robert Browning's; talks about the bicycle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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