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Herschel4070

From:
James Prinsep
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.67
Summary:

Thanks JH for meteorological observations at Cape. Wants to publish discoveries for scientists working in India. Will collect meteorological data with a special focus on atmospheric activity from all over Indian peninsula.

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Faraday0785

From:
Thomas Leverton Donaldson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
May 1835
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.55
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0786

From:
Lord Ashley
To:
Robert Peel
Date:
2 May 1835
Source of text:
BL add MS 40420, f.122
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0787

From:
Robert Peel
To:
Lord Ashley
Date:
3 May 1835
Source of text:
Thompson (1898), 70
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0789

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Date:
4 May 1835
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday Project
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Faraday0788

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
Date:
4 May 1835
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

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Faraday Project
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Faraday0790

From:
William Richard Hamilton
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 May 1835
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/2/10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7918

From:
Robert Wauchope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.121
Summary:

Sorry to involve JH in dispute with H. H. Gird over 120 dollars for horse. Will settle out of court. Sends two mineral specimens from Ascension [Island] and barometric observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11700

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1835-5-8 or 9]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.64
Summary:

Has received letters and books from England. Leave of absence of William Meadows and nomination of Piazzi Smyth. Is preparing a packet of observations for England; has JH anything to send?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9088

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[9 May 1835]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20726
Summary:

Describes a work on ethics with an empirical orientation, which JH plans to write. Discusses the meteorology and geology of the Cape region.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11827

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
10] May [1835
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.186
Summary:

Acknowledges Lady Herschel's two notes and will communicate with her in the morning. Encloses the note of Mrs. Smyth [wife of W. H. Smyth?]. Hears that Dr. [John] Lee has been contesting Aylesbury, without success. Estimates for stable have been cut out.

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Faraday0791

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Stokes
Date:
10 May 1835
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/07
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4475

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[10 May 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.175
Summary:

C. P. Smyth appointment as assistant to Thomas Maclear pleases JH. Suggests method of determining right ascension of double stars with collimating telescope. Sends brochure proposing worldwide meteorological observations.

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Faraday0793

From:
Jasper Atkinson
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 May 1835
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0792

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Magrath
Date:
11 May 1835
Source of text:
NYPL, Ruth and Herman Vollmer Autograph Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7920

From:
Robert Wauchope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
12 May [1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.123
Summary:

Discusses barometer behavior during coastal gales and tornadoes. Will send JH a better specimen of oxide in granite fissure [illustration]. RW mistakenly assumed it was basalt. Regrets JH involved in RW's transaction with H. H. Gird.

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HENSLOW-1176

From:
George Birkbeck
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 May 1835
Source of text:
Haverford College Quaker and Special Collections, Pennsylvania Charles Roberts Collection, British Physicians 232
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel7945

From:
Charles Wheatstone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 May 1835]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.146
Summary:

Returns Mary Herschel's repaired concertina. Sends CW's recent paper on velocity of electricity [R.S.P.T. 124 (1834)]. Electrical experiments CW is planning. Appointed professor of experimental philosophy at King's College.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8534

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Date:
[16 May 1835]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Bessel 225 (ACCS: RS:HS 19.70 & C: RS:HS 25.4.10)
Summary:

FB's letter of 4 July 1834 reached JH in March 1835. Discusses the observability of the sixth and seventh Saturnian satellites. Meteorological observations at sea, at Cape, and from Calcutta lead JH to suspect 'annual transfer of atmospheric pressure' between hemispheres and permanent depression at equator. Describes JH's work at the Cape. Praises Thomas Maclear.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13005

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[17 May 1835]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0418; Reel 1055
Summary:

Excerpts from JH's letter [n.d.] to Peter Stewart regarding financial investments. Asks for meteorology and tide data in Canton, China.

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John Herschel Project
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