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Herschel6640

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[8 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.216
Summary:

Comments on several aspects of poetry, including EC's; JH has been quite ill; talks about walking on water with a water velocipede.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6641

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[1 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.226
Summary:

Given up idea of translating Dante; comments on meteor shower report; suggests EC write an ode on poverty.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6642

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[30 October 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.236
Summary:

Thanks for verses on the transit of Mercury; comments on observation of an auroral arch and eclipse observations of the solar corona.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6643

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[26 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.244
Summary:

Comments on observations of meteors, comets, and the transit of Mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6644

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
1869-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.257
Summary:

Comments on 'rubbish' published by Poet Laureate, EC's report of the weather of 1849, and the flowers and plants growing in JH's garden.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6645

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 June 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.271
Summary:

Comments on poetry, EC's and Robert Browning's; talks about the bicycle.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6646

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[25 October 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.291
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of a sonnet; JH too much in figures to allow the muse to repay the gift.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6647

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[13 January 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.297
Summary:

Thanks for the volume of EC's verse; comments on various aspects of poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6648

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[28 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.299
Summary:

Much on poetry; for a sonnet on the sun by EC, JH sends some photographs of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 June 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.318
Summary:

Of toads in rocks and stones, and martins in blocks of ice under rivers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[31 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.324
Summary:

Of talking fishes, a great meteor falling in Tripoli, and the 'madness of man' in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6597

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[18 August 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.325
Summary:

Comments about some pieces of German poetry.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6598

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[19 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.335
Summary:

Recounts various reports of phenomena in the sky related to the 'great Moscow phenomenon' of 'mock Suns and inverted Arches.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6599

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[4 November 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.338
Summary:

Thanks for the clippings about an aurora; thoughts on the relationship of poetry to music.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6650

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[31 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.350
Summary:

Comments on spelling reform being attempted in Germany and the United States, and being proposed in England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6651

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[9 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.353
Summary:

Comments on the attitude of the French towards the Germans in light of the war.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6652

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[22 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.359
Summary:

More remarks relating to French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9]. Thanks EC for more poetry and an account of an earthquake she experienced. JH is in poor health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6653

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[15 April 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.363
Summary:

Comments on several aspects of poetry; further comments on French/German relations [see JH's 1871-2-9 & 1871-3-22].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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