From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[15 October 1854]
Source of text:
JHS 1.20
Summary:
About JH's social activities in London.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
About JH's social activities in London.
Sailing for Sarawak next day; arranging and cataloguing collection of 6,000 specimens - birds, insects and shells; impossibility of collecting plants for William Hooker; pleasure at quotation by Latham; any news of Sebastopol; wanting copies of Punch; expedition to Mount Ophir.