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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
1 April 1840
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[1840-4]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.8.65
Summary:
Indicates travel plans, including a visit to FB, with a side trip for business to Slough. JH comments on some astronomical observations he has received.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
[1840]-4?
Source of text:
RS LUB.H.356b (C: RS:HS 22.46)
Summary:
Thanks for 'small, but intense' volume sent.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
1840-4
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.14 (C: RS:HS 25.9.6)
Summary:
Thanks RS for all the trouble he took with the problem of his portrait. Is anxious to see the specimens of the engraved nebulae of which RS spoke, but confesses little hope in photographic 'reverses' of pencil drawings. Has installed his family at Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1840- 4 or earlier]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0758; Reel 1089
Summary:
JH is preparing to leave residence at Slough, and all notes on William Herschel's life are packed away. Refers [?] to published biographies, but adds some corrections to those.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Marshall Hall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.204
Summary:
Was not certain how to reply to his last obliging letter. Has resolved to write to Professor [J. P.?] Müller. Thought it right to inform JH of his plans.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 April 1840
Source of text:
UB MS NS 336
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Maria Hooker (nee Turner)
Date:
4 April 1840
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.29, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH informs his mother, Lady Maria Hooker, that on his return from Cape Town he received a letter from his father, William Jackson Hooker, addressed to him at Madeira, 5 Oct 1840. Discusses the news that his brother William [Dawson Hooker] has gone to Jamaica for his health leaving his pregnant wife Isabella at home. If necessary JDH says he will raise the child with his sister Maria as their housekeeper. JDH has visited Baron Ludwig, known as Baron Snuffy, who gave him William Henry Harvey's GENERA OF SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS: CAPE TOWN & a picture of the Ludswigburg Gardens. JDH has an account of the Constantia wines & Vineyard. The Cape botanist [Christian Freidrich] Ecklon has gone mad. The 'Erebus' now sails for Possession Island, one of the Crozets where there is a seal fishery. JDH will send his next collection from Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], including algae from the southern regions. He also has duplicates to send of his current collection, including minerals & a replacement for the St Helena Commidendrum that had the stem eaten by a cockroach. The damp on the ship has made it hard to preserve the specimens. JDH also has pine cones, sketches & other small things to send home. Mentions expenses for drawing paper & washing. Thinks that Captain Beaufort has not transmitted WJH's letter to JDH reliably. JDH has written to his sisters Maria & Bessie [Elizabeth] at Kensington. Asks that his father remember him to Mr Arnott, Dr Graham, Mr Childra & Mr Murray. JDH will send his father an account of Ludwigsburg Garden soon & will write to Adamson, Mitchell & [Charles] Lyell from Van Diemen's Land. JDH sends his plants home to the Admiralty by 'Lord Lynedoch transport' with a letter from Captain [James Clark] Ross requesting they be forwarded to Glasgow.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[5 Apr 1840]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 5
Summary:
An amusing description of his railway journey to Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
5 Apr [1840]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Health is improved, but would do anything to get strong again. Is consulting his father; will return to London soon to see B. W. Hawkins.
Will send MS [of Fish, no. 2] to the printer, and be there when LJ comes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
5] April [1840
Source of text:
George Eastman House, 2.17
Summary:
Hopes that his paper does not anticipate any of RH's work; will share with the R.S.L. any of RH's results. Laments that he is unable to fix the spectral colors on photographic paper. Asks if RH has studied the bromines.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Benjamin Silliman, Sr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1840
Source of text:
DAR 204: 184
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of his Journal of researches which is "not second in interest and instruction to any work of the kind I have ever read".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[7?] April 1840
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0585.3; Reel 1058
Summary:
Packing up the 7-ft. and 10-ft. reflecting telescopes for their trip to Collingwood in Hawkhurst in Kent, JH's new home.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1840]
Source of text:
JHS 3.19a
Summary:
About the choices to be made in moving furniture from Slough to Collingwood; problems about the election of a minister at Eton.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
J[ames] R[ose] I[nnes]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
184[0]-4-8
Source of text:
UCT JH Letters A1.44
Summary:
Anthony Oliphant has died. The plan to establish a system of meteorological observations at the Cape Colony and in Caffreland has failed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Tattam
To:
John Lee
Date:
8 April 1840
Source of text:
MM/25/6, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.84
Summary:
Discusses Charles Riddell's desire to serve at a North American observatory and the expenses involved.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Thomas Napier
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1840]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.68
Summary:
Apologizes for his long silence. Outlines recent events at the Cape concerning Andries Stockenström, who has been replaced by J. Hare, and Major C. C. Michell, who has resigned. J. R. Innes has been all over the Colony and will shortly be coming to England. F. M. Eardley-Wilmot has dined with the Napiers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1840]
Source of text:
JHS 3.19b
Summary:
Mostly about boxes packed and shipped to Collingwood, along with questions about items of equipment there.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1840]
Source of text:
JHS 3.19e
Summary:
About a tragic fire nearby, and more about moving goods to Collingwood.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project