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From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[?]-7-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.433
Summary:

Sends unpublished volume written at the request of HH's children. Experiments with soap bubbles. Heard that JH translated first canto of Dante's Inferno.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.428
Summary:

Inquires about unusual weather at Cape of Good Hope in late 1836. Was there an epidemic of influenza at Cape early in 1837?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 June 1839]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.429
Summary:

Sending HH's Medical Notes and Reflections (1839).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1841-1858]-5-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.441
Summary:

Invites JH to dinner if possible, or later if not at present possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
5 July [1841]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.430
Summary:

Thanks for mentioning HH's book [Medical Notes and Reflections (1839)] in JH's review of William Whewell in latest issue of Quarterly Review. Sends copy of its second edition.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
17 August [1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.432
Summary:

Compliments JH's translation (1842) of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Is going to Scotland, then Switzerland. Has seen enough of America.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 January [1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.442
Summary:

Grateful for JH's translation of J. C. F. Schiller's 'The Walk.' Comments on several points in the translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
7 January [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.439
Summary:

Delayed answering JH's letter until HH could find details of works by 'Göttingen Professor,' but has had difficulty in locating them. Any treatise connecting epidemics with fungous origins would be of interest. Will bring distressing medical case to attention of one of HH's committees. HH's Medical Notes and Reflections, 3rd edition (1855).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 February [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.438
Summary:

Marriage of HH's eldest daughter. Thanks for JH's letter of introduction to George Bishop and J. R. Hind.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 February [1850]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on marriage of HH's daughter. Notes HH's review of J. C. Prichard's Natural History of Man in December issue of Quarterly Review, written while on holiday in Armenia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1858 or later]-4-23
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.440
Summary:

Comments on JH's paper on Sensorial Vision (1858). Covered some of this ground in HH's own book, Mental Physiology (1852).

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
28 March [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.443
Summary:

Hopes JH will accept enclosed little volume.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
26 July [1862?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.277
Summary:

Thanks JH for mentioning HH's paper. Attributes electrical phenomena to 'a material element,' perhaps a modified form of ether, distinct from other matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1 November [1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.436
Summary:

Will send copy of second edition of HH's Essays on Scientific...Subjects (1862). Received letter from HH's friend and former patient Louis Napoleon, who will send copy of Napoleon's book on Gallic campaigns of Caesar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.435
Summary:

Received JH's translation of fourth book of Iliad. Will return it with comments in a few days. Attended two or three excellent lectures by JH's son. HH needs to balance mental efforts with more physical activity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 January [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.434
Summary:

Received manuscript of JH's translation of third book of Iliad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1865]
Source of text:
JHS 6.56a
Summary:

HH has nominated JH's son Alexander to fill a post become vacant by the death of Robert FitzRoy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
14 July [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.431
Summary:

JH's translation of first canto of Dante's Inferno (1868) is best HH has ever seen. Thanks for JH's commendation of HH's own translations [?]. More observations of soap bubbles.

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