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Herschel6897

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.178
Summary:

Details of printing the policy for the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6898

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.179
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6899

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.180
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6900

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
1844-3
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.181
Summary:

More details of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6901

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[7 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.182
Summary:

Discussion of actuarial tables for the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel826

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[14 March 1844]
Source of text:
JHS 3.23
Summary:

Is spending time in court, and all the rooms are filled with tobacco smoke, which bothers JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13018

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[15 March 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0431; Reel 1055
Summary:

Congratulations on JS's new position at Bank. Received JS's account from Malta of comet. JH's son William is at Clapham grammar school under Charles Pritchard. Eneas Mackintosh promised to procure job as 'writer' in India for Willy. News from India and Europe. Teaching Latin to Alexander and three oldest daughters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE278

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
17 Mar 1844
Source of text:
HS 16.348, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel8305

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[M. Bosse?]
Date:
[17 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.111
Summary:

Reacts strongly to substantial errors in unauthorized biography of JH. Suggests it be burned. [JH annotation: 'Not sent. Answered none of their letters and refused to take in 2 or 3. A regular piece of French insolence.']

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2657

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
[17 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.348 (C: RS:HS 22.148)
Summary:

Sending papers on actinochemistry (photography). Discusses [James] Forbes's viscosity theory, nebulae of Southern Hemisphere, great refractor at Collegio Romano, and Lord Rosse's telescopes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel134

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 March 1844]
Source of text:
RGO 6.92.125 (C: RGO 6.92.124 inc)
Summary:

Has not heard from Thomas Maclear [see GA's 1844-3-12]; has the Cape equatorial object glass been dealt with?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel414

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[19 March 1844]
Source of text:
RGO 6.193.55
Summary:

Comments on the large number of stars identified in one square degree of sky.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10811

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Park Harrison
Date:
[22 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.164
Summary:

Has not received Tables A and B of the endowment tables. Comments on the use of these tables and would welcome his views on a possible alteration in policy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6908

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[26 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.183
Summary:

Under pressure of time, JH is anxious to resolve the question of appropriate actuarial tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6910

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[26 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.184
Summary:

Corrections to the actuarial tables.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13019

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Calder Stewart
Date:
[29 March 1844]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0432; Reel 1055
Summary:

Newspaper accounts of JS's first success for 'the Bank' in India. Approves JS's plan to present personal report from JH on recent twin-tailed comet to Pasha of Egypt. Family news. Margaret Herschel's health. JH's son William is at Clapham grammar school under Charles Pritchard. Visit by John Stewart. Matilda Grahame's finances. Outbreak of class struggles in England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6913

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[31 March 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.185
Summary:

Further emendations regarding printing the policy of the benefit society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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