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Herschel13787

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0137; Reel 1087
Summary:

Bank intends to publish letters and papers relating to 'Gold Coinage Controversy.' Does JH object to including JH's 'Half a dozen Propositions respecting the Gold Coinage'? [JH annotation: Answered 4 Feb; approved, and enclosed corrected copy.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4930

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.318 (C: RGO 6.258.499)
Summary:

Has JH seen R. A. Proctor's theory regarding the Milky Way?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6405

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.170
Summary:

News of her sons. Has sold many of her photographs. Husband is in Ceylon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8726

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[7 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.119
Summary:

Discusses various telescopes of his father and his father's [erroneous] announcement of his discovery of four additional satellites of Uranus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8390

From:
Edward Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.275
Summary:

Prospects for investment in Great Eastern Railway for JH's son William.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6483

From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.250
Summary:

Has made a mistake in the lease. Will fall in with any suggestion of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13788

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0138; Reel 1087
Summary:

Sends proof of Bank's article on gold coinage. Tell HC of any corrections that JH may want.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6484

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
F. Charsley
Date:
[1870-2-8 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.250verso
Summary:

Reply to FC's 1870-2-8.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4931

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.319
Summary:

Has he heard about the resignations of the Assistants at the Paris Observatory? Further regarding the present situation at the Paris Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel92

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 February 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.150.62
Summary:

About the dismissal of U. J. J. Leverrier at Paris observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel165

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[9 February 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.258.500
Summary:

Responds that R. A. Proctor's theory [see GA's 1870-2-5] is possible, and explains why.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel923

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[9 February 1870]
Source of text:
JHS 5.45
Summary:

A long rambling statement against the metric system and its proposed introduction into India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12713

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hammond Chubb
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0128; Reel 1054
Summary:

Returns proofs with slight alterations. Encloses copy of letter JH sent to the Times on similar subject.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12821

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary [Cornwallis Lipscomb Power Herschel]
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0227; Reel 1054
Summary:

Thanks MH for copying reply from JH's son John to Col. Tennant's letter about 'ruinous' metric system. T. F. and Amelia [Herschel] Wade arrived in China. News of storms and shipping disasters. Denounces papal infallibility. Reviews Pierre Lanfrey's life of Napoleon. Tell JH's son John about changes in southern stars. Compares lectures of Chandra Kesub-den to sermons of John Wesley.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8972

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[10 February 1870]
Source of text:
London Times (Feb. 12, 1870), p. 10, col. 5
Summary:

Proposes a method of defraying the cost of coinage by means of seigniorage involving silver coinage.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13789

From:
Hammond Chubb
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0139; Reel 1087
Summary:

Printer can still include JH's corrections to article [on gold coinage], but not JH's enclosed letter to the Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10931

From:
Henry James
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.277
Summary:

Received his note on the Great Pyramid when travelling in Scotland. Quoted in his reply to C. P. Smyth. Encloses a note from F. D. Wackerbarth of Uppsala. Will be sending him the volumes containing the photographs of the Sinai survey.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6485

From:
F. Charsley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.251
Summary:

Is satisfied with the alteration he made in the lease and his bankers will be forwarding the premium. Thanks for the photograph of the contrivance for the ladder.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7230

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.413
Summary:

Progressing slowly. Knows nothing about C. M. Hall or the whereabouts of his telescopes. Regarding the London Institution. Sees that U. J. J. Leverrier has been dismissed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6574

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Henry H. H. Cameron
Date:
[16 February 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.317 & 24.298
Summary:

Advice and guidance on the path he is to pursue when he goes to university.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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