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Herschel12086

From:
John Murray [Jr.]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5 February [1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.453
Summary:

Has today sent by book post the manuscript of Mrs. Mary Somerville's autobiography, which JH is to report on. Understands that Mrs. Somerville is amenable to good advice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE334

From:
John Murray JR
To:
John Herschel
Date:
5 Feb 1869
Source of text:
HS 12.453, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE335

From:
Joseph Barclay Pentland
To:
John Herschel
Date:
7 Feb 1869
Source of text:
HS 14.154, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel4079

From:
Joseph Barclay Pentland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.154
Summary:

Sends Mary Somerville's autobiography; visited her in Naples. JP will return to England in the summer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10139

From:
Robert P. Graves
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.26
Summary:

Has been requested by the relatives of the late W. R. Hamilton to write a memoir. Would be glad if JH would send him any suitable letters of Hamilton in his possession.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12007

From:
William C. Morland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.369
Summary:

Many thanks for sending the seeds of Wellingtonia. Has two Cryptomerias also grown from seed. Was much interested in Alexander's lecture.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10140

From:
Robert P. Graves
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.27
Summary:

Agrees with him about the impossibility of sending W. R. Hamilton's letters by post. Thinks the best plan would be to send them to his brother at the Athenaeum, who will bring them to Ireland.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10141

From:
Robert P. Graves
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.28
Summary:

Package of letters has arrived safely via the Globe Parcel Express Co., for which accept his best thanks. Would like a page or two of JH's recollections of W. R. Hamilton if possible. Has sent a pamphlet on William Wordsworth and the Lake Country.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8403

From:
Mary Elizabeth Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 February 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.289
Summary:

Does JH have any letters from H. C. Oersted to lend to Oersted's daughter for publication?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10996

From:
J[ohn] Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.342
Summary:

Sending some tables to show the relation between the mean distances of the primary and secondary planets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6266

From:
William Henry Bateson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.27
Summary:

Would be pleased if JH would come to the consecration of the new chapel in May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2268

From:
S. Alexander Renshaw
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.477
Summary:

Desires advice on construction of glass prisms for Newtonian reflecting telescopes. Also asks how to test the parabolic figure of a glass speculum before silvering.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4515

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.104
Summary:

Has discovered William Herschel's memoirs in R.A.S. library; arranged and read them. Asks JH whether any copies exist so the originals can be checked for completion before binding. Questions JH on William Herschel's opinion of the nature of nebulae and boundaries of the galaxy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11985

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.347
Summary:

The Meteorological Committee of the R.S.L. is about to commence publishing the summary of the observation collected from the seven observatories. Would like JH's advice on method of publishing the barometric observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4269

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.105
Summary:

Suggests remedy for bronchitis problem in JH family. Young John Herschel's work on nebulae pleases CP. Comments on William Huggins's work on solar spectra.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1996

From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.29
Summary:

Notices in letter of last May JH's postscript about the rate of color blindness occurring to overworked or ill artists, and doubts it becomes di-chromic, but merely a 'weakness' of vision.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12504

From:
Christian August Friedrich Peters
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.370
Summary:

Thanks JH for the memoirs he sent to CP, who will reciprocate with some of his own.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE339

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Mar 1869
Source of text:
HS 16.379, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2688

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.379
Summary:

Has made the changes JH suggested. Autobiography will be published posthumously. Met [Henry W.] Longfellow. Wishes the Herschels would visit because it might improve JH's health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7900

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.104
Summary:

Consulted A. C. L. G. Günther, museum ichthyologist. Answers JH's question about poisonous herring Clupea thryssa. [A. K.] Johnston's Physical Atlas attributes Ruminants article to GW, but GW wrote only Rodentia article.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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