From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[1852?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.379
Summary:
Can he lend him the Cambridge Calendar or tell him the examiners in the mathematical tripos.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Can he lend him the Cambridge Calendar or tell him the examiners in the mathematical tripos.
Does not wish to become a Vice-Patron of the College of Preceptors.
Encloses seeds gathered from Heracleum sphondylium. Brief discussion of William Jackson Hooker’s trip to the Alps region, including failed attempt to climb Mont Blanc.
Invitation to attend the wedding ceremony at St. James' Piccadilly [for the wedding of Caroline E. M. Herschel and Col. Alexander H. Gordon]