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From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.138
Summary:

Has had to leave his work with the Sector due to ill health. Found [George] Child overworked at the Observatory. Comments on some observations. Pleased to hear that JH's health has improved. Mr. Watermeyer has died and C. F. H. von Ludwig remarried. Gives latest news of Kaffir War. Comments on the quarrel between G. B. Airy and James South.

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John Herschel Project
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