From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
[12 April 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.140 (C: RS:HS 22.8)
Summary:
Thanks WS for offer of professorship of astronomy at Oxford, but declines it, partly because of other pursuits and health reasons, and considers his astronomical career terminated.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project