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From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 July 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.298
Summary:

A note of thanks upon receipt of a copy of JH's Cape Results.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[5 May 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.155
Summary:

Has sent RW a copy of JH's catalog of nebulae and also a biographical sketch of JH's father. Thanks RW for and praises RW's works on sun spots and on the aurora borealis. Notes that G. B. Airy is now disposed to accepting the existence of solar 'willow leaves.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.299
Summary:

Is sending JH a copy of some of RW's writings on sun spots. RW has been considering writing about the work of William and Caroline Herschel before the discovery of Uranus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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
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
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[4 May 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.196
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending him a photograph of RW; sends photograph of JH in return.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Rudolf Wolf
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 July 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.302
Summary:

Because RW has had no response from JH, he is worried that if the letter and printed material were not lost, then JH must be dissatisfied with what RW had written about JH's father, William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rudolf Wolf
Date:
[7 July 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.202
Summary:

Thanks RW for sending copies of RW's memoir on JH's father. States that JH has now revised a catalogue of all JH's father's double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project