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Herschel11818

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.178
Summary:

Has heard from G. B. Airy that T. F. Colby has written to Ireland for the compensation bars. An additional assistant has been designated but no appointment made yet. Received a letter from their good friend but does not feel justified in bringing it to the notice of a minister. Admiralty has borrowed Fuller's theodolite (from R.A.S.) and the mural circle should soon arrive. Gives Michael Faraday's analysis of the meteorolite.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13409

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1839
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0642; Reel 1089
Summary:

Will send two photometers and three-year supply of paper to [?]. One goes to J. C. Ross and one to F. Eardley Wilmot at Cape of Good Hope. Instructions for using photometers. Hopes [?] Robinson forwarded actinometers to Woolwich as JH directed. These should be checked at St. Helena. Instruction for using actinometers. Sent report to Humphrey Lloyd at B.A.A.S. Returns [?]'s Daguerre newspaper containing 'impudent notice about M. Pambour and his great Wheels.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7362

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1839
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 4/2.3, 2.9, 2.10, and 2.13 (all verso); Reel 7
Summary:

JH's experiments to find compounds suitable for photography. Accidental discovery of effect of 'nitrate of Silver.' Note of 22 Jan. from Francis Beaufort alerted JH to L. J. M. Daguerre's secret processes and W. H. F. Talbot's experiments.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel7399

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1839]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 5/4.6 verso; Reel 8
Summary:

Fourth observatory, at Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], will be conducted by J. H. Kay, to be landed from one of vessels [Terror and Erebus] bound for Antarctica. This vessel will also carry observers and instruments for stations at St. Helena and Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
2 [–3 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 10
Summary:

His dinner with the Carlyles. "He is the best worth listening to of any man" – but CD cannot get up much admiration for Mrs C, partly because of her Scots accent, which makes her difficult to understand.

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DCP-LETT-482

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 158
Summary:

Emma is surprised how quickly CD has moved into the new house and understands his feeling of triumph. Wants him and Fanny [Mrs Hensleigh] Wedgwood to settle on hiring a cook.

Is reading Mansfield Park [Jane Austen (1814)], which she finds "very suitable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 [Jan 1839]
Source of text:
Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 5)
Summary:

Informs him of J. B. Jukes’s plans concerning the Newfoundland survey post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5345

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.292
Summary:

Will bring CB's 'Engine' to Slough tomorrow, together with Dionysius Lardner's apparatus, which CB has 'taught to write.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-484

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[6–7 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 11
Summary:

Has been with the Lyells doing geology.

Is reading a biography of Sir W. Scott [J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott (1837–8)]; also Mungo Park’s book [Travels (1799)].

Has hired a cook at fourteen guineas a year with tea and sugar.

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Herschel4040

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 January 1839]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Recounts a letter from William Rowan Hamilton, President of the Royal Irish Academy, commending CH on her service to astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-485

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 159
Summary:

Still rejoices in having found the house they like.

Thinks he might enjoy Jenny [Jane Welsh] Carlyle’s company more away from Carlyle "as she must have her full swing in talking".

Says the wedding must be fixed for the 29th instead of the 24th.

Hopes he will look better than on his last visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[c. 9 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.15)
Summary:

Discusses his Glen Roy paper [(1839), Collected papers 1: 87–137], which he is sending to CL.

Remarks on Charles MacLaren’s treatment of alluvium. Comments on alluvial action in Lochaber.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-486

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Jan 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 160
Summary:

Glad to have his letter; supposes she will receive only two or three more from him in her life.

Thinks he should leave the curtains for her.

Discusses Mungo Park and Sir Walter Scott’s Life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6022

From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.147
Summary:

At the recent council meeting of the R.A.S., JH was nominated as president. Is returning the letters of F. W. Bessel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11545

From:
Martha Langton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.462
Summary:

Please accept her heartfelt thanks for his kindness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-487

From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 168
Summary:

Sends congratulations on CD’s engagement, with a gift.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10098

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.435
Summary:

Encourages JH to visit at Nantes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6023

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Baily
Date:
[14 January 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.148 (C: RS:HS 25.8.15)
Summary:

Is honored by being nominated as president but would prefer someone else as he is very busy and can ill spare the time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000724

From:
Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton
To:
Lord Northampton
Date:
15 January 1839
Source of text:
MM/12/41, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel13823

From:
H. Moreton Dyer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1839]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0172.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sent wrong paper to JH in Nov. 1838. Now sends complete meteorological journal from Mr. Lees, HD's stepson. [JH annotation: Answered 18 Jan. 1839.]

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John Herschel Project
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