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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.8
Summary:

Expresses JH's regret at not having been able to come to MF's experimental demonstration.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RI 487-8 F3B
Summary:

Discusses dispersive power of enclosed prism.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RI 367 F3B
Summary:

Maintains opinion that would be improper to append remarks from JH's note to MF's paper.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. [Holdeness?]
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0744; Reel 1089
Summary:

Asks for loan of H's largest 'coated Electrical fan' tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Jones
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
WT A-371
Summary:

A note accompanying a key that may hopefully open a bookcase in a room in Harley St. [?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Gordon
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
WT B.17
Summary:

Accepts an invitation to tea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Mary Frances Kater
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.23bis
Summary:

Unable to come to the party last night as he was suffering from severe cold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.9.79
Summary:

Agrees to provide some written work which will go into the report of the weights and measures commission[?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.139 (C: RS:HS 25.9.78)
Summary:

A note to accompany a Russian work on weights and measures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir James McGrigor
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.19 & 21.211
Summary:

Has recently received JM's letter and is pleased to find recognition of scientific merit. Welcomes his promised help. Does not feel justified in approaching Benjamin D'Urban on the subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Edward Colebrooke
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Reports on considerations that led to the election in 1824 of Henry T. Colebrooke to the presidency of the Astronomical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Francis Wade
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.7
Summary:

Unexpected turn; nothing to do but pray it may lead to happiness. One so singularly fitted by talent should be offered position he deserved.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.178bis
Summary:

Comments and queries on various astronomical observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Sotheby
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.222b
Summary:

Replies positively to WS's invitation to a party.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0411; Reel 1055
Summary:

Postscript: returns on investments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0593; Reel 1089
Summary:

Will not comment on 'Extracts of paper &c;' [?]'s 'Suggestions' to [Standards] Committee are thorough and sufficient. Reluctant to introduce changes in units of measurement. Suggestions for security of new standards.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0594; Reel 1089
Summary:

Send books for JH to Patrick Stewart at 65 Cornhill. Will return 'Balloon papers' of J. W. Lubbock soon. Grateful for [?]'s efforts in Macedoine Melloni's cause.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0606; Reel 1089
Summary:

Explains JH's reasons for compiling list of discrepancies between JH's and [?]'s catalogs of stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0614; Reel 1089
Summary:

Finally acknowledges that public will not accept decimal currency. Agrees to suppress article 103 and corresponding table. Sorry to see [Indian] rupee sacrificed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
n.d.
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0618; Reel 1089
Summary:

Instructions for positioning new lenses in telescope do not correspond to actual labels on lenses. Suspects lenses were switched after leaving William Simms's shop. Please advise.

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John Herschel Project