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Herschel5608

From:
Daniel Birkett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 September 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.97
Summary:

Sending a book of Henry Moseley for JH's comments, and would be pleased if he would supply a testimonial for Moseley's use.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5609

From:
Daniel Birkett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 September 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.98
Summary:

Thanks for his reply, which he will pass on to Dr. Henry Moseley. Mr. Atkinson is in town and it may be advisable to bring Thomas Beckwith's affairs to a conclusion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11228

From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.119
Summary:

Encloses proofs of the copy of JH's Prelim. Discourse. JH's essay is giving him great pleasure. Comments on the view of understanding physics without the use of mathematics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5610

From:
Daniel Birkett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.99
Summary:

Atkinson is in London and would JH meet them on Friday to effect the necessary business.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12284

From:
Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.140
Summary:

Introducing a Mr. Lerebours, son of the optician at the Bureau des Longitudes, who is on a visit to England. Hopes JH has received the copy of JN's work on geometry, written in a new way.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3011

From:
Wilhelm Struve
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.121
Summary:

Reminds WS to select certain nebulae for 'communal observation.' Received good news from Finland. Gave [James] South the list of 36 double stars to be observed. Stars compare except result in smaller distances than JH's and South's observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5309

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.256
Summary:

Agrees with his opinions held about the R.S.L. Is going out of town immediately; so unable to answer the queries completely. Regarding the magnetic muzzle used by needle makers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE241

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Oct 1830?
Source of text:
HS 16.338, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
Text Online

Herschel2647

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.338
Summary:

Sends a method of estimating the variations in the elements of orbits during the perturbations in longitude and distance. Used it in manuscript when examining Saturn and Jupiter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project, Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel3826

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1830]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Wishes to learn if Isabella Stewart's health has declined.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2093

From:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.342
Summary:

Discusses eighteenth-century observations from Greenwich. Describes curious observations of stars in Gamma Virginis and Polaris.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10062

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.398
Summary:

Family and travel news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10063

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.399
Summary:

Of lost letters and the death of Isabella Stewart.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14754

From:
Robert Saunders Dundas [Lord Melville], Henry Hotham, and John Barrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0942; Reel 1083
Summary:

By order of lords of Admiralty, notice is sent of royal appointment of JH and others to Board of Visitors to Greenwich Observatory. [Letter forwarded 29 Nov. from R.S.L. to JH by Davies Gilbert with compliments.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14797

From:
Robert Peel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1225; Reel 1060
Summary:

Royal warrant appointing Board of Visitors to Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11349

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.257
Summary:

Asks JH to advise about where in London to buy a good chronometer for a friend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11350

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.258
Summary:

Details about the chronometer order [see JL's 1830-11-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3856

From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1830]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Sorry to hear that JH was not elected President of the R.S.L. Sending a supplement to WH's 'Theory of Systems of Rays' essay. Recommends [Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin,] Lord Adare for consideration as a member of the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10064

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.400
Summary:

Comments on JH's lost election for President of the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2167

From:
Alexander Rogers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.412
Summary:

Pleased that JH enjoyed the ale. Asks whether comets could be portions of the luminous atmosphere surrounding the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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