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Herschel13123

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[16 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0483.14; Reel 1055
Summary:

Error in CT's letter to Chancellor of Exchequer concerning record keeping in Mint. Repeats request to hire special clerk to assist Master.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0798

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
July 16th 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/179, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2720

From:
Jacob Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
17 August 1853
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/59
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall0800

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/914; MS JT/1/HTYP/263, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14161

From:
Robert Mushet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0386; Reel 1087
Summary:

Returns JH's book. Describes alloy of gold and silver. Copper-iridium alloy would work, but it would influence assays adversely. Procedure for separating gold and iridium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13429

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[17 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0664; Reel 1089
Summary:

C. E. Trevelyan reports that W. E. Gladstone agreed to 'subject of our conversation yesterday.' Does [?] still want to meet with JH at Treasury chambers today?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0799

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Augst 17th /53
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/182; MS JT/1/HTYP/262, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday2721

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
18 August 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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WCP3640

From:
Henry Unwin Addington
To:
Henry Norton Shaw
Date:
19 August 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

“Free passage to Singapore” granted to ARW and permission sought “to visit the Dutch and Spanish settlements in the Eastern Seas.” A place is available on a “ship of War” headed for Trincomalee “but no further.”

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3649

From:
Loftus Charles Otway
To:
George William Frederick Villiers
Date:
19 August 1853
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB4 1851-60 FOREIGN OFFICE
Summary:

Official permission granted to ARW for “projected scientific expedition to the Eastern Archipelago”; Spanish Colonial office in the Philippines instructed “to afford to Mr. Wallace any assistance & protection he may require.”

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel13124

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[19 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0483.15; Reel 1055
Summary:

Submits E. W. Ward's report on feasibility of establishing branch mint in Sydney. Encourages Treasury to proceed with Ward's plan.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13338

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0544.8; Reel 1053
Summary:

Postpone paying bills until end of month. Questions MH's birthday festivities. Congratulates Hayley family on remarriage. Poor Mr. Paynder is gone. JH finished third volume of Adam Graeme at Mossgray [by Margaret Oliphant].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1931

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[19 August 1853]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.7
Summary:

Thankful for the Lyells' return and accepts their invitation to dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday2723

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Ellis
Date:
20 August 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2722

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the Trustees of the British Museum
Date:
20 August 1853
Source of text:
BM CA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel501

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[20 August 1853]
Source of text:
RGO 6.341.46
Summary:

Explains why JH could not attend meeting [see GA's 1853-8-16]; hopes GA and family had a pleasant holiday.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall0801

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
21st Aug. 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/170, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel14785

From:
[John] Stewart
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1853]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-1061; Reel 1083
Summary:

Travels in France. Note of JS's discussion with Arthur Gordon about recent problems at Mint and JH's need for intelligent secretary. Possibility of reducing Mint to subsidiary of Treasury. Feels anxiety for JH's sufferings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-53-08-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Foster
Date:
22 August 1853
Source of text:
D53/8374, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday2724

From:
James Braid
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
22 August 1853
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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