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From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1860]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (42)
Summary:

Sends meteorological observation charts from Highfield House Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1860 or later
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.176 & 177
Summary:

Family news, wedding of a friend's daughter, suffering with jaundice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1860 to 1866?]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.3.5 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

Hopes JH will return when fruit is ripe to harvest.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.466
Summary:

Thanks for the additional subscription to the Rifle Corps. Regrets that he could not attend due to indisposition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Barlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.19
Summary:

Has just received his note and written to the Royal Institution so that he may get an answer without delay. Sends his best wishes to the family.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.367
Summary:

Asks about other portraits of William Herschel like one RW owns, which National Portrait Gallery wants to buy. Will send miniature of WH's portrait to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Samuel Newington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.123
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's opinion. Can hardly imagine that such a simple contrivance should answer the purpose. Saw the patent agent who has offered to send a list of all the writings on the subject. Also brought the matter before B. C. Brodie (the elder), who now seems totally blind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.282
Summary:

Regarding increasing the payment to the Secretaries of the R.S.L. Would like JH's comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Ann Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 January [1860?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.221
Summary:

Sends W. H. Smyth's history of R.S.L. Club [Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Royal Society Club, 1860]. Mentions W. H. Smyth's retiring from visiting R.S.L. Club.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.314
Summary:

Would like to dedicate his 'Elements of musical science' to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Isaac Fletcher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.272
Summary:

Regrets the delay in answering JH's letter but he has been abroad. Will supply any details if not too late for his purpose. The mounting of his large telescope is peculiar and is similar to that used by Smyth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie [the elder]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
12 January [1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.290
Summary:

Has interpreted the word 'honorary' quite correctly.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.315
Summary:

Is grateful for being allowed to dedicate his book to JH; also for his information on harmonics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.368
Summary:

Miniature of William Herschel's portrait was lost and recovered. At same sale where RW bought WH's portrait, was sold 7-foot reflector, inside which were several papers in WH's handwriting. New owner would not accept £40. Does JH advise offering more?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Griffin & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.142
Summary:

Is grateful for his assistance and will send him a proof. Can nothing be done about a new edition of his articles on Light and Sound from the Metropolitana?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.487
Summary:

[Responding to JH's 1860}-1-12,] HS admits some of JH's objections to HS's views on distribution of cometary orbits, but attempts to salvage HS's cyclonic theory of sunspot formation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.369
Summary:

Please send directions to Collingwood, so RW may send miniature of William Herschel's portrait to JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander J. B. Hope
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.467
Summary:

Has just returned from town and found JH's letter in Greenwood's volumes. Looks forward with pleasure to perusing the volumes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Joseph Lowe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.330
Summary:

Has experienced an extraordinary meteorological year and been kept busy observing all the changes. Is to submit another certificate to the R.S.L. and would be pleased if JH would sign it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.41
Summary:

Referring to some experiments in sound, GS proceeds to provide the theoretical basis for them.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project