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From:
Martha Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.324
Summary:

Written for Mary Somerville. Requests information on sunspots and on William Huggins's observations of nebulae. Mary is recovering from illness. They send regards to Herschels.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 January 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.325
Summary:

Mary Somerville is sending her autobiography and desires comments and suggestions. She is busy with mathematics.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 February [1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.326
Summary:

Thanks JH for his letters to her mother (Mary Somerville), who is not well enough to write. Describes eruption of Vesuvius.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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