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Herschel7787

From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866-5 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.3
Summary:

Sends children's book to JH. Believes JH, who reads German, will understand Swedish.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7786

From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.2
Summary:

Grateful to learn that [collection of William Herschel's works] is being addressed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10804

From:
Emily Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.156
Summary:

Found the enclosed in a bookseller's shop, found it amusing, and sends it to JH to explain the mystery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4907

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.295
Summary:

Is sending a packet of seven papers on metrical and decimal systems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10805

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Emily Hardcastle
Date:
[4 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.154
Summary:

Comments on EH's 'Magic pictures', which JH said he produced and described in a paper twenty-six years earlier; JH is however unable to explain the process chemically.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE321

From:
John Herschel
To:
Agnes Greig
Date:
11 May 1866
Source of text:
MSH 3 / 303, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel3240

From:
G. Wharton Simpson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.210
Summary:

Wishes to ascertain certain facts for article on history and aspects of photography. Especially, asks where to find first record of JH and [Louis] Daguerre using hyposulfite of soda for fixing photographs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel229

From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.412.177
Summary:

Need to meet to discuss the question of publishing Charles Rümker's star catalogue [see JH's 1866-4-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3373

From:
G. Wharton Simpson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.211
Summary:

Thanks JH for helping to clarify origins of Louis Daguerre's use of hyposulfite of soda for fixing photographs. Provides further information on photography, particular solar microscope photography.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11958

From:
J. Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.320
Summary:

The packet for Wilfred Heely has just been delivered and JM will arrange for it to be forwarded to Calcutta by the Mail steamer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7755

From:
[Samuel Fisher?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 May 1866]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/1.199 verso; Reel 10
Summary:

[Form letter] Invitation to company dinner at Merchant Taylor's Company on 11 June to meet Duke of Cambridge [George William Frederick Charles].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10425

From:
Alexander Henning
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.306
Summary:

Will give him great pleasure if he can assist J. Parkhurst in any way, but regulations in Messrs. Green's ships will preclude him from their service. Met Margaret Brodie Herschel at the Stewarts a few days ago.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8039

From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.306
Summary:

Sends documents requested by G. B. Airy. Hopes JH will attend visitation to hear minority view of Warren de La Rue and James Glaisher.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4207

From:
M. Hume
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 May 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Sends patterns for a suit. Cannot obtain the exact pattern JH wanted.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10667

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.40
Summary:

Giving observations of a new star observed by him and some of his correspondents.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8974

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[19 May 1866]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 10 (May 25, 1866), 244
Summary:

Quotes from an 1840 publication by JH to show JH's priority over a recent request for a patent for 'Magic pictures.' Recounts some recent photographic experiments by JH on the action of light on platinum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10668

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir William Huggins
Date:
[19 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.156
Summary:

Comments on new star reported by WH [see WH's 1866-5-18]; includes diagram of that portion of the sky.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1269

From:
John F. South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.38
Summary:

Tells JH that JS's brother, James, is very ill and infirm, almost blind and with his memory failing, but wishing to be reconciled to those with whom he was in conflict in earlier times. Charles Babbage has visited. Would JH come or write?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel230

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[21 May 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.412.186
Summary:

Comments on Charles Rümker's observations and agrees to a meeting [see John Wrottesley's 1866-5-12].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1138

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Wrottesley
Date:
[21 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.12.8
Summary:

Mostly about arranging a meeting with both JW and G. B. Airy at the Greenwich Visitation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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