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Herschel8700

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Mrs. Thomas Romney Robinson]
Date:
[13 April 1867]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth. Praises it and expresses thanks for it having been sent. Regards to Dr. Robinson.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8699

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mrs. Socker[?]
Date:
[13 April 1867]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Delighted to receive Memoir of Maria Edgeworth [ed. by F. A. Edgeworth, 1867]. Praises Edgeworth. Whom should JH thank for this gift?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2433

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.286
Summary:

Glad to have met JH's son [John]. Describes benefits of [R.S.L.] meetings for cultivation of science.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8416

From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.301
Summary:

Had written previously to JH to obtain more information about JH's father, William. Is now asking JH for a response to the same requests.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7201

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.392
Summary:

Sends a theorem, which beats Blaise Pascal's by points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6401

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
20 April [1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.166
Summary:

Has only just received his letter. Feared for the safety of her parcel. Wishes he would write a poem on photography. John Taylor and the Camerons think that JH's poetry is beautiful. Writes in haste to catch the post.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8417

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[21 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.192
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending RW's Mittheilungen and RW's Neue Untersuchungen. Replies to RW's queries about JH's ancestry and about the current state of JH's father's largest reflecting telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13050

From:
Spottiswoode & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 April 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0463; Reel 1055
Summary:

Received JH's insertions. Will send proof on Friday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8415

From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.300
Summary:

Thanks JH for his letter, and RW sends on additional writings in astronomy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7202

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[25 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.193
Summary:

Comments on AD's theorem [see AD's 1867-4-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12380

From:
Emilien Frossard Pasteur
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.237
Summary:

What does JH think of the idea of establishing a meteorological observatory on the Pic du Midi?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10645

From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.21
Summary:

Regrets he was out when JH called. Thanks for the elegant verses. Will be moving shortly to a place nearer London, which promises much. Gives notes on some more sun spots, which he has recently observed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10642

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Frederick Howlett
Date:
[29 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.18 & 24.194
Summary:

Would like FH to study a phenomenon that JH has noticed on the sun's disk and that has no connections with sun-spots.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel862

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1867]
Source of text:
JHS 4.14
Summary:

About traveling to Halton; JH is finding working on his double star catalogue fairly severe drudgery.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10857

From:
H. Hotham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.208
Summary:

Is puzzled by two apparent contradictions in JH's recent book Familiar Lectures. Are they printer's errors? Was related by marriage with the late Sir John William Lubbock.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8358

From:
R. Calvin Clapham and Robert Spence Watson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1867-5
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.160a
Summary:

Invite JH to give lecture series at Literary and Philosophical Society next winter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10858

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
H. Hotham
Date:
[2 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.209 & 24.195
Summary:

Thank you for his letter. There are no misprints or conflicting statements in his Familiar Lectures. Explains the various points.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14344

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0505; Reel 1093
Summary:

Preparing for total eclipse of sun in 1868. Conferred with William Huggins about making spectroscopic analysis of red protuberances. Asks JH's opinion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1440

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1867]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H712
Summary:

Asks JH's opinion on matter of purchase of expensive telescope for solar eclipse (1868) and other observations by William Huggins.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10643

From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.20
Summary:

Is uncertain if he has detected the lightlines on the solar surface to which JH has called attention, but there does seem to be something unusual there. No sun spots are visible just now.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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