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Herschel13290

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1853-1]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0536.12; Reel 1053
Summary:

Family finances. Plans to let Charlotte go on Friday, to keep peace with regular cook. Will go to Naish on Saturday and bring daughters back on Monday. Will dine on Tuesday with new Chancellor of Exchequer [W. E. Gladstone]. Concern for daughter Amelia; with good nursing, she will grow new skin. Leonhard Schmitz's new Roman History is probably reproduction of B. G. Niebuhr's lectures.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13294

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
2?] January [1853
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0536.16; Reel 1053
Summary:

Thanks for MH's New Year's blessings. Divine help is sustaining JH in adversity. Family finances. Summary of 1852 accounts. Grandma [Mrs. Stewart] is ill. Mint business includes opening two Australian branches, large order for copper coinage, and decision about Mint's relationship to Bank of England. H. D. Harness is doing well.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel698

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[3 January 1853]
Source of text:
JHS 1.90
Summary:

Talks about things being sent out to Collingwood, about bills and the shortness of money, and the pressure of work at the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13331

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[8 January 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0544.1; Reel 1053
Summary:

Frightened by MH's account of daughter Amelia's serious burns. Encloses revised account sheet that shows £196 missing. Son William will come to Collingwood soon. Saw daughter Caroline yesterday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13293

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
10?] January [1853
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0536.15; Reel 1053
Summary:

Thank daughter Isabella for account of Amelia Herschel's condition. Bank [of England] is in trouble again. Lists [Christmas] cards received. Attended Michael Faraday's wonderful lecture last night.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13291

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[1853-1-17 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0536.13; Reel 1053
Summary:

Helped son William board ship to France. Instructions for sending mail to William in India. Recipe for croton pills. Letter from Matilda [Grahame Stewart]. What shall JH tell J. E. Mayall about 'J. S.'s photographs'?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13332

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[23 January 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0544.2; Reel 1053
Summary:

Changes in daughter Caroline's life. Will send note received from son William in Paris. German poetry. Visited Elizabeth Baily. Received visit from Eve Gordon. Financial panic in Paris is spreading to Bank of England. Louis Napoleon's 'love match.' P.S.: Doubts if daughters Isabella or Louisa will understand [B. G.] Niebuhr's first volume.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13333

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0544.3; Reel 1053
Summary:

Expects daughter Caroline and husband and Eneas Mackintosh on Sunday. Must hire seven supervisors and 28 workers at Mint. Bank of England requires £600,000 per week of new coins. Family finances. Engraving of William Whewell is 'wretched.' Mr. Dudgeon visited yesterday to learn JH's new photographic method of coating glass with gluten and acetic acid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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