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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
British Library Literary Fund
Date:
5th April 1843
Source of text:
British Library Lit fund Anniv Dinner Papers 1843 Vol 7 No 3
Summary:

JSH writes to decline an offer to accept the office of Steward at the anniversary dinner for the Literary Fund Society. Explains this is due to commitments lecturing at Cambridge and in the region of his Hitcham parish.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Edward Charlesworth
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 December 1844
Source of text:
British Library Add. 35230: 93-97 [ALS 9 pp]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
an unidentified correspondent
Date:
After 1846
Source of text:
BL add MS 37199, f.190
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
4 April 1848
Source of text:
British Library Add. 37194: 149-150
Summary:

Discusses establishment of the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew by William Jackson Hooker; asks about how to find a book of paper samples like one owned by Babbage for the Museum.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
British Library Literary Fund
Date:
8 May 1849
Source of text:
British Library Lit fund Anniv Dinner Papers 1849 Vol 10 No 5
Summary:

JSH writes to decline invitation to anniversary dinner of the Royal Corporation of the Literary Fund. Explains this is due to commitments lecturing at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project