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From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/194, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Frederick Augustus Abel
Date:
May 1852
Source of text:
Gladstone (1874), 30-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[1 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0482.12 & -0482.13; Reel 1055
Summary:

Information for Lord Chandos [Richard Grenville, junior lord of Treasury]. History of Benedetto Pistrucci's employment at Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
-5-1852
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.68, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
2 May 1852
Source of text:
MM/16/161, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Margaret Seymour
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.194
Summary:

Invites JH to dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
[2 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS DM.6.140 & P.S.: RS MM 16.161
Summary:

Agrees to serve on and hopes will be able to attend meeting of Wintringham Bequest Committee. Comments on interpretation of will. P.S. stresses keeping to the time period specified in the will.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
3 May 1852
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.128-129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Joanna B. Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.489
Summary:

Has had a letter from Miss Mathilde Oersted, who was gratified by JH's speech regarding her father. Her father's sudden death has been a great blow to her. Does not know what will happen to H. C. Oersted's books.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Wheatstone
Date:
4 May 1852
Source of text:
Gladstone (1874), 46
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Richmond
Date:
4 May 1852
Source of text:
Jorge C.G. Calado
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
4 May 1852
Source of text:
RI MS G F28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Whewell
Date:
4 May 1852
Source of text:
TCC MS O.15.49, f.32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Richard Grenville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0135.1; Reel 1087
Summary:

Call on RG Thursday to discuss Benedetto Pistrucci.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0543.2; Reel 1053
Summary:

Hopes daughter Maria is better. Arrangements for Ball. Family finances: lists income and expenses at Collingwood and London residence. Describes carriage JH wants to buy. Ugly accident at [wedding?]; warns MH to avoid borrowing carriages. Anticipating six months of intense work following departure of H. D. Harness, after which JH intends to resign from Mint. Describes life as 'unendurable.' Misses children.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Henry Sykes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1852]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (99)
Summary:

Asks JH to look at a letter by John Forbes Watson, whose paper the R.S.L. recently refused to read.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1852]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0552.23; Reel 1093
Summary:

Forwards confidential memorandum by George Arbuthnot concerning JH's letter. Will discuss this with JH tomorrow.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 5. 52
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/11, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Parker
Date:
5 May [1852]
Source of text:
Stationers’ Company (Records Pt XI (III) J. W. Parker: autograph letters from authors (TSC/1/F/07/22))
Summary:

As an author of some scientific works CD is of the opinion that each bookseller should settle, each for himself, the retail price.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Thomas Brande
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 May 1852
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project