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From:
[Charles Babbage]
To:
Mary Pitt Herschel
Date:
[1821-8]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0968; Reel 1083
Summary:

Explains how CB responded to JH's request that CB be a trustee for marriage settlement, prior to JH's marriage to Miss Gwatkin. Will meet the Gwatkins at Friday's party. Hopes to find time to speak to JH about this in private. Declines to pursue the course requested by William and Mary Pitt Herschel until JH confides more in CB.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
To:
Sir James Edward Smith
Date:
1 Aug 1821
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/3/33, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Mem. sur les Crucifères; news.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Date:
1821-[8]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.11
Summary:

JH willing to communicate with HS on worthwhile matters. Subscribes Astronomical Society to HS's Astronomische Nachrichten. Explains 'Prize Question.' Requests copy of F. W. Bessel's essay on fourth satellite of Saturn. Society resolved to print 'daily tables of 46 stars.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project