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SOMERVILLE241

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
23 Oct 1830?
Source of text:
HS 16.338, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel3826

From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 October 1830]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Wishes to learn if Isabella Stewart's health has declined.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2093

From:
Stephen Peter Rigaud
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.342
Summary:

Discusses eighteenth-century observations from Greenwich. Describes curious observations of stars in Gamma Virginis and Polaris.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10062

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.398
Summary:

Family and travel news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10063

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.399
Summary:

Of lost letters and the death of Isabella Stewart.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14754

From:
Robert Saunders Dundas [Lord Melville], Henry Hotham, and John Barrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 November 1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0942; Reel 1083
Summary:

By order of lords of Admiralty, notice is sent of royal appointment of JH and others to Board of Visitors to Greenwich Observatory. [Letter forwarded 29 Nov. from R.S.L. to JH by Davies Gilbert with compliments.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14797

From:
Robert Peel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1830]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1225; Reel 1060
Summary:

Royal warrant appointing Board of Visitors to Royal Observatory, Greenwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11349

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.257
Summary:

Asks JH to advise about where in London to buy a good chronometer for a friend.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11350

From:
Joseph Johann Littrow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.258
Summary:

Details about the chronometer order [see JL's 1830-11-29].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3856

From:
William Rowan Hamilton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1830]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Sorry to hear that JH was not elected President of the R.S.L. Sending a supplement to WH's 'Theory of Systems of Rays' essay. Recommends [Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin,] Lord Adare for consideration as a member of the R.A.S.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10064

From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.400
Summary:

Comments on JH's lost election for President of the R.S.L.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2167

From:
Alexander Rogers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.412
Summary:

Pleased that JH enjoyed the ale. Asks whether comets could be portions of the luminous atmosphere surrounding the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11229

From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.120
Summary:

Has received the parcels of corrected slips and directed the printer to continue composing from the corrected slips. Has been requested by the editor of the Edinburgh Review to prepare an article on Humphry Davy. Can JH supply such an article as DL has no time himself?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4660

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.44
Summary:

Encloses paper 'Figure of the Earth.' Wants information on rays in quartz. Has tried A. J. Fresnel's experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11005

From:
Richard Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
16] December [1830
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.349
Summary:

Wants to print some of JH's observations in his own appendix. Congratulates him on the progress and issue of the R.S.L. business. One of JH's papers was read at the Geological Society last evening and created a good impression, especially from Adam Sedgwick.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1218

From:
James Hudson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS B26.42
Summary:

Informs JH that he has been put onto an R.S.L. committee to consider the continuation of observations in the Southern Hemisphere, and to announce a meeting of that committee and of the Glass Committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9486

From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.231
Summary:

JH's paper was read at the Geological Society and received great approbation; it will be printed in the Proceedings or Transactions. Was unable to be present as Mrs. Fitton gave birth to a son. Sorry state of the R.S.L. affairs. Intends to have nothing to do with the R.S.L. at present.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12021

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 December 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.383
Summary:

Regarding the printing of JH's memoir, which William Fitton has now taken to read: suggests it be printed in abstract first of all.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4362

From:
Elise Rufenacht
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1831 or later]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (107)
Summary:

Thanks Herschel family for their 'kind interest' in her behalf.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5673

From:
Gilbert Blane
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1831 or 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.162
Summary:

Has had great satisfaction in reading JH's book on Natural Philosophy, but would like to correct his statement regarding the date of the introduction of lemon juice as a treatment for scurvy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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