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Faraday4721u

From:
Joseph Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1836 or 1837
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H66
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

WCP6671

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
1836-1843
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP3/13
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel10314

From:
Basil Hall
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1836 early?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.196
Summary:

P.S. Has received her letter regarding travel home via Rio and will endeavor to find out the answers and send letters of recommendation later; is now in Paris. Hopes to send a copy of a small book he has written. Hoped to include something from D. F. J. Arago but it has not arrived yet. The French are unpunctual.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE31

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
undated (1836 post stamp)
Source of text:
MSB1 / 254, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday4667u

From:
Edward Hawkins
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 H64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

SOMERVILLE574

From:
Joseph Pentland
To:
William Somerville
Date:
1836
Source of text:
MSP 3 / 254, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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Faraday0869

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Joseph Pettigrew
Date:
1836
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8871

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D. François J. Arago
Date:
[1836]
Source of text:
Comptes Rendus, 3 (1836), 505 (inc)
Summary:

Discusses the 'Moon Hoax' and JH's observations of Halley's Comet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8809

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[1836]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/7
Summary:

Sending WT some seeds. Had hoped to send some bulbs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1860

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Harvey
Date:
[1836 ?]
Source of text:
WT 69294.1
Summary:

JH and his family went on an excursion and collected plants. JH is now sending some that survived well and asking WH to identify them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1861

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Harvey
Date:
1836
Source of text:
WT 69294.2
Summary:

Is sending WH a plant sent earlier, but this one has a bulb attached.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0870

From:
Lord Melbourne
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 January 1836
Source of text:
IEE SC MS 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-292

From:
Charles D. Douglas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Jan 1836
Source of text:
DAR 39.1: 5–6
Summary:

Reports in detail on the 20 Feb 1835 earthquake and on volcanic activity into December of 1835. Encloses a letter sent to him describing the earthquake.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12705

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Captain C[aldwell?]
Date:
[5 January 1836]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0120; Reel 1054 (C: RS:HS 25.15.1)
Summary:

Thanks for alerting JH to extraordinary hoax in New York Journal of Commerce (2 Sept. 1835). Invites [Caldwell] to visit JH at Feldhausen.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1058

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John I. Taylor
Date:
[7 January 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.4.19
Summary:

Compares JT's observations of stars very favorably with most others available to JH; explains how JH had helped Thomas Maclear improve the mounting on a telescope at the Cape observatory, together with comments on other equipment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0871

From:
Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 January 1836
Source of text:
IEE SC MS 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel3920

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
8] January [1836
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Uncertain when they are traveling to Paarl.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0872

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
9 January 1836
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4221

From:
James Prinsep
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1836]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.68
Summary:

Formally thanks JH on behalf of the Asiatic Society for astronomical memoirs and observations of the satellites of Uranus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0873

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Percy Drummond
Date:
11 January 1836
Source of text:
RMA WO150 / 15, f.116
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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