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Faraday0737

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
c September 1834
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/2/14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11690

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 September 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.54
Summary:

Resumed the N. L. Lacaille operation on Saturday. Discusses the position of Lacaille's Observatory. Has obtained an old plan of the area.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE610

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
2 Sep 1834
Source of text:
Somerville College Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE611

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Sep 1834
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 74, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel12562

From:
Giovanni Antonio Plana
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.432
Summary:

In his travels, GP met James Stewart (Margaret Herschel's brother); gives GP's assessment of James Stewart. Comments on JH's intended voyage to the Cape, and wishes him well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4956

From:
Giovanni B. Amici
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.343
Summary:

Concerning Capt. Basil Hall. GA is going to live at Florence as Director of the Florence Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0737a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barrow
Date:
9 September 1834
Source of text:
Barrow (1835), 209-12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3838

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1834]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Asks about JH's children. Remarks that JH's discovery of globular clusters in the Scorpion is not what she remembered William Herschel being mystified about; remembers that WH exclaimed that there seemed to be a 'Loch im Himmel' ('hole in heaven') there.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11691

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 September 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.55
Summary:

Approached Col. R. Thom[p]son on the subject of some rockets, and he advises an official letter to the Officer of Ordnance. Is inclined to use gunpowder instead if JH is agreeable. Hopes Lady Herschel and the new infant are progressing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE612

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
12 Sep 1834
Source of text:
MSS 6 / 76, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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L811

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
?
Date:
13 septembre 1834
Source of text:
Correspondance du Grand Ampère (Paris: 1943), p. 964-965.
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0737b

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Cyrus Read Edmonds
Date:
13 September 1834
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5340

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.287
Summary:

Regarding his machine. Suggested modifications for it. Recent meeting of the B.A.A.S. Political events.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12515

From:
John Philip
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 September 1834]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.381
Summary:

Is greatly exercised over the passing of the Vagrants Act, which JP believes is intended to, and will, discriminate against the blacks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE364

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
19 Sep 1834
Source of text:
MSH 6 / 347, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel9086

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[21 September 1834]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20724 (CC: RS:HS 25.3.21)
Summary:

Reports on the meteorological and tidal conditions at the Cape. Praises climate and observing conditions. Comments negatively on James Dunlop's catalogue of southern nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L874

From:
André-Marie Ampère
To:
Jacques Matter
Date:
26 septembre 1834
Source of text:
Veerle 977, musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère

DCP-LETT-257

From:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 81
Summary:

News of family and friends.

Word that William Clift thinks CD’s latest fossils are of much value.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday0737c

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dominique Jean François Arago
Date:
30 September 1834
Source of text:
RASA MS 2494/2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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