From:
John Daniel Runkle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 April 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.511a
Summary:
Sends Mathematical Monthly with JH's portrait and catalog of his writings. Smithsonian will send rain data JH wants. Discusses politics and hopes England will help break the cotton monopoly and thereby end slavery.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project