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From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
5 Apr 1830?
Source of text:
HS 16.335, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.335
Summary:

Offers congratulations on arrival of JH's first child. Thanks him for communicating his thoughts on her manuscript [Mechanism of the Heavens] at such a time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project, Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Peter Barlow
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.294
Summary:

Further regarding his projected comparison of telescopes. Did not realize that JH was still working on double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.315
Summary:

Appointment to an unnamed post. Is to meet John Lee to discuss the instruments; would JH like to join them?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
E[neas] MacKintosh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 April 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.20
Summary:

Will be pleased to act as sponsor to JH's child. Could not stay as an inmate but will visit them from Windsor from Friday till Tuesday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Grahame, Sr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 April 1830]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.4
Summary:

Has been laid up with a cold and unable to answer his letter. Congratulations on the new baby. Hopes mother and child are doing well. Will wait for confirmation of his son's marriage before sending the news to the papers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project