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From:
[Sir] R[ichard] Phillips
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.159
Summary:

Receives copy of JH's Light. Invites him to Birmingham.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
C. I. Parnell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.140
Summary:

Details forgery case on which JH gave legal advice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1827?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.347
Summary:

Understands his intellectual pursuits. Gives address of his son [Adelaide].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Rümker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1827?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.508
Summary:

Sends [F. G. W.] Struve's observations on William Herschel's double stars because of JH's expressed interest in the work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Pond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1827?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.33
Summary:

Asks that list of errata be published before a committee meets to investigate 'the subject of Mr. Lee's [?] animadversions.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.241
Summary:

Regarding the affairs of the R.S.L. and JH's intentions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Niccolo Cacciatore
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.138
Summary:

The state of the observatory after the death of Giuseppe Piazzi. Has been put on a permanent basis now. Instruments and books have been received. Send some mainsprings for the chronometers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Ritchie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.351
Summary:

Thanks JH for proposing WR for R.S.L. Discusses construction of air pump. Trying to simplify construction of vacuum. Will be in London in March.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Davies Gilbert
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.27
Summary:

Talks about the glass experiments of John Dollond and Mr. Stanwood[?].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.349
Summary:

About JG's book publisher. Requests support in the application of Granville Sharp Pattison for a professorship at London University [letter completed 1827-1-25].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Baily
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.67
Summary:

Further regarding his theory of measuring heights by means of the barometer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Georgiana Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.10
Summary:

Urges JH to miss the next R.S.L. Council meeting, as many friends have been to see Charles Babbage, and are proposing to make the meeting difficult. GB suggests that JH remain at Slough because of his mother's illness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Georgiana Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1827-[2]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.353
Summary:

Thanking him for his letter and giving him news concerning the recent death of her father-in-law.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.350
Summary:

About JH's mother, and the behavior of Charles Babbage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.27
Summary:

Asking for the procedure for bringing business before the Board of Longitude. Has found solar tables incorrect.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Georgiana Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.210
Summary:

Views as to whether her husband would be interested in applying for the professorship at Oxford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Georgiana Babbage
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1827-2-13 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 2.357
Summary:

Gives JH news of Charles Babbage's plan to apply for the Savilian chair of mathematics at Oxford.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.352
Summary:

More about Charles Babbage [see JH's 1827-2-11]; requests JH's assistance to gain entry to the British Museum library.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Hyde Wollaston
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
13 February] [1827
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.283
Summary:

[Charles Babbage] should understand that no effort will be made for 'alien' unless that candidate offers himself. Since William Buckland suggested Babbage for the position, let Buckland take the initiative.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1827]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.28
Summary:

Requesting permission to borrow Christiaan Huygens's telescope. Postscript of further remarks on the solar tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project