From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1820]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.8
Summary:
Invitation to spend the morning with them on the day they are expecting Sir Walter Scott.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Invitation to spend the morning with them on the day they are expecting Sir Walter Scott.
Will be going to Cambridge to try for the vacant professorship. Remarks on his reasons for applying for the post. His recent experiments with quartz.