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From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1842]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Promises in her next letter to comment about JH's 'chrysotype' photographic process.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel3995

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0587.12.b; Reel 1058
Summary:

Describes the total solar eclipse seen by Francis Baily at Pavia and George Airy at Turin. They were thrilled to witness three purple flames from the blocked sun emerge around the edge of the moon. Thirty more Cape Town sweeps remain to be reduced.

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