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Herschel14856

From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0577.1; Reel 1058
Summary:

Lovingly describes various events regarding JH's children and relatives.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-1118

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 February 1832
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library B L981
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Herschel778

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1832]
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.521
Summary:

Brief note about JH's travel to Slough and the need to come back to London soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0547a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Dominic Paul Colnaghi
Date:
18 February 1832
Source of text:
NAL MSL/1903/9000/176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0548

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Taylor
Date:
late February 1832
Source of text:
SI D MS 554A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0549

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
21 February 1832
Source of text:
BL add MS 37186, f.269
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14597

From:
Susan White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0580.4; Reel 1093
Summary:

[SW's servant] Sally celebrates JH's birthday every year and longs to see JH again.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7962

From:
Susan White
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.229
Summary:

Thanks JH for ring of deceased Mary Herschel. Would like to see JH's children, but age confines SW.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel779

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[23 February 1832]
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.519
Summary:

JH and the baby are getting along well; JH talks about cholera; is 'almost certain I had the comet in the [JH's telescope's] field.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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L1129

From:
Étienne Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire
To:
André-Marie Ampère
Date:
23 février 1832
Source of text:
Fonds André-Marie Ampère chemise 351, Archives de l'Académie des sciences, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
La Correspondance d’André-Marie Ampère
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Faraday0550

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
24 February 1832
Source of text:
RI MS F1 B15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel5670

From:
Miles Bland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.158
Summary:

The postal packet that he forwarded to Durham has been lost, so would be grateful if JH would send him another recommendation. Must not speak too humbly of himself. Finds Cambridge much changed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6701

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
Date:
[25 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.18 & 21.102
Summary:

Sending a paper for CD and one for S. P. Rigaud and William Buckland. Would like Buckland's support for W. H. Mill, a candidate for the Boden professorship at Oxford. Has been speculating on the effect of snow on the heights of mountains. Thinks David Brewster has carried his joke about the decline of chemistry too far.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8715

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
Date:
[25 February 1832]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford (C: RS:HS 21.101)
Summary:

Asks SR to vote for [William Hodge] Mill for the new Boden Professorship of Oriental Literature at Oxford. Thanks SR for gift of SR's book on James Bradley.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel780

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1832]
Source of text:
JHS.HCEJ.520
Summary:

All is well in the household; JH is to chair the cholera committee for the parish, which includes inoculation for all committee members and an oath to treat the sick if nurses cannot be found; JH is receiving political pamphlets [which he ridicules], after Lord John Russell cited JH as an authority in parliament.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday0551

From:
John Britton
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 February 1832
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/3/11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday0552

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Britton
Date:
29 February 1832
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1040

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. Briarly
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.5
Summary:

Has received a pamphlet from B about the apportionment of boroughs in a manner to eliminate the 'rotten' boroughs; JH critiques the pamphlet, especially its attempt at mathematical logic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12590

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mr. McIntyre
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.4
Summary:

Arguing a statistical principle related to assessed values of several different boroughs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7273

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Drummond
Date:
[29 February 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.103
Summary:

Comments on comparison of boroughs based on assessed value and on taxation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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