From:
John Thomas Briggs
To:
Francis Beaufort
Date:
[25 April 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0977; Reel 1083
Summary:
Please ask JH to send receipts to account for £316 spent on equatorial telescope from Munich.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Please ask JH to send receipts to account for £316 spent on equatorial telescope from Munich.
Encloses note from accountant general of Navy about payment of Cape telescope. Send receipt to FB to complete transaction.
Reimbursement from Navy for bills paid by JH to Georg Merz for 'Cape Equatorial.'