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Herschel13250

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1828]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0520.2; Reel 1053
Summary:

Enamored of Margaret Stewart. Orders MH to secrecy about JH's engagement. Praises fiancée's musical talent.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10260

From:
Stephen Groombridge
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.145
Summary:

Regrets his health prevents him from attending the dinner in honor of W. S. Stratford. Will discharge his debt when called upon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8008

From:
George Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.275
Summary:

Will convey JH's note to W. H. Wollaston, who is sinking gradually.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2233

From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.500
Summary:

Discovered a mistake in Mr. Perkins's paper published in the Annals of Philosophy. Perkins has not yet corrected the error, although he was requested to do so.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-53

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1828
Source of text:
DAR 154: 66
Summary:

Has found nice rooms in [Christ’s] College, which he has furnished with some very good prints. Lives almost entirely with W. D. Fox and entomology.

News of John Price, B. H. Kennedy, and Charles Whitley. Fanny Owen is as charming as ever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-54

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[24 Dec 1828]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 7)
Summary:

CD is collecting entomological specimens;

extols the charms of Fanny Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel741

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Stewart
Date:
[24 December 1828]
Source of text:
JHS 2.18
Summary:

A love letter on Christmas Eve from JH, at home with his mother, to his 'attached,' MS; comments about their mutual friend, James Grahame.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12185

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Eilhard Mitscherlich
Date:
[29 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.43 & 21.33
Summary:

EM has just missed being awarded a Royal Medal; it was given to W. H. Wollaston. Thinks it advisable for EM to draw up a brief resume of his own scientific discoveries.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11220

From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
30 December [1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.110
Summary:

Encloses a new prospectus of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia. Intends to write physical astronomy himself. William Whewell cannot write Sound. Has a stock in hand for three years.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10047

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1828]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.382
Summary:

Seasons greetings and thoughts on JH's upcoming marriage [letter completed 1829-1-4].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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