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Faraday0479

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
February 1831
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0480

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Knowles
Date:
1 February 1831
Source of text:
Hunt MS HM 18915
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8484

From:
James South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.464
Summary:

Comments on efforts toward getting a royal charter for the Astronomical Society, a paper by Peter Barlow, and activities of the R.S.L. Correspondence with Wilhelm Struve. Difficulties in getting his new telescope constructed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-91

From:
Henry Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Feb 1831]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 37
Summary:

Is in London living in a garret, almost penniless, and has legal and marital difficulties. He hopes to sell some verse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-147

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 February 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 177
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel10066

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.402
Summary:

Of the health of JH's brother-in-law, John Stewart, and the publication of JH's Prelim. Discourse [letter completed 1831-2-8].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0480a

From:
William Henry
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 February 1831
Source of text:
Loewenfeld (1913), 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-148

From:
William Yarrell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 February 1831
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University Autograph File, Y
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-92

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[9 Feb 1831]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 38)
Summary:

Will leave Cambridge shortly after division; plans to return for next term. With so many friends, Henslow among the foremost, it will be pleasant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1001

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[10 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.1.19
Summary:

Provides FB, Chairman of the Greenwich Visitation Committee, with detailed recommendations for the preparation of catalogues coming out of the Greenwich observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9075

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.181
Summary:

Sends JH a copy of Richard Jones's new book [Essay on the Distribution of Wealth]. Congratulates JH on the publication of his new book [Prelim. Discourse].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-149

From:
William Wilson
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 February 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE244

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
11 Feb 1831
Source of text:
HS 16.341, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Herschel2650

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.341
Summary:

Wants to use method of indeterminate coefficients to integrate the differential equations of the planets' perturbations. [Originally written to W. Fairfax.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project, Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday0481

From:
Edward Magrath
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 February 1831
Source of text:
DRO MS 1392M / L19 / 31 / 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-150

From:
W. J. Hooker
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 February 1831
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 181
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-93

From:
Henry Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Feb 1831]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 38
Summary:

Accepted CD’s "generous remittance" rather than go to jail; has pawned his watch. Will stay one fortnight to see whether he can do anything; if he fails he will go home. If he succeeds he will ask his father to pay his debts and nothing else for a two-year period. Is proud of the attachment CD shows.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0482

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
14 February 1831
Source of text:
DRO MS 1392M / L19 / 31 / 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4971

From:
D. François J. Arago
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1831]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.354
Summary:

Is sending Volume 10 of the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-94

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[15 Feb 1831]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 37)
Summary:

Informs WDF of a shipment of birds ready to be sent by Baker.

Urges WDF to read Herschel’s essay [A preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy (1830)] in Lardner’s [Cabinet] Cyclopedia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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