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Herschel6639

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[1 March 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.213
Summary:

Comments on the death of a number of friends, his own poor health, and how he spent the winter working through his double-star observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

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
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